Ep. 79 - What Happens In This Podcast Will Shock You. At 34:20 I Cried

Ep. 79 - What Happens In This Podcast Will Shock You. At 34:20 I Cried

  • Fender American Professional Series (Stab: TC Viscous Vibe)

    • Sits just below the new American Elite line (more like the now end-of-life’d original American Standards)

    • New “Deep C” neck shape. Thinner towards headstock, thicker towards body. Combination between a C and a U.

    • Bone Nut(!) 22 Narrow-Tall 6105 Frets

    • Treble bleed circuit

    • Stratocaster

      • Standard

      • Lefty

      • HSS w/ Shawbucker

      • HH w/ 2 Shawbuckers

      • Pop-in trem arm on all models

    • Telecaster

      • Standard

      • Lefty

      • Deluxe (HH)

      • New bridge design, more like the vintage ashtray style but a bit shorter walls

      • 3 compensated brass saddles (finally)

    • Jazzmaster & Jaguar both feature the more user friendly Mustang bridge

    • Jazzmaster has simplified controls: 3-way toggle, volume & tone

    • P-Bass, lefty P-Bass, P-Bass 5 string

    • Jazz Bass, Lefty, 5 string, fretless.

    • http://shop.fender.com/en-US/electric-series/american-professional/

  • Pedal Genie

  • Derek year in review

    • Catalinbread CSIDMAN ep 58

    • Roli Seaboard RISE ep 60

    • Klon clean boost ep 67

    • Fender Flea Jazz bass ep 68

    • Fuzzrocious greyfly ep 69

    • Favorite PG pedal: OBNE Procession

  • J’s year in review

    • This year went so fast.

    • Neunaber pedals (from last year, Immerse reverb this year.

    • A solid year for pedal development.

    • The bogner / Neve pedals in general.

    • Lots of reverbs and stuff this year, I think the Catalinbread Adineko and DBA ghost Delay.  Solid Gold FX electroman.

    • Has fender come out with tons of new guitars this past year?

    • Major advancements in tuner pedal technology!

    • Obviously the MODO bass instrument from IK multimedia

    • Worst of the year goes to Gibson for their “2017” lineup where the traditional model doesn’t have traditional features.

    • But…

    • Gibson gets a clean slate for 2017!

Ep. 77 - Your Face Is Excellent Right Now

Ep. 76 - For All You Fancy Bitches

Ep. 75 - The 2017 Gibson Ph

  • Derek’s Orange Micro Terror (stab: Some jamup thing)

  • TC Electronic Mimiq follow up - Price: $129 (stab: …..you know….)

  • Ernie Ball Paradigm Guitar Strings (stab: Carl Martin Bass Drive)

    • Sign up to test out Ernie Ball’s new guitar strings!

    • Answer a short survey, (name, address, type of string preference, sizes, etc)

    • If selected, they send you some strings to try out. Cool!

    • https://www.ernieball.com/paradigm

  • TC Electronic (stab: Death by Audio interstellar Overdriver)

    • New series of pedals! “Smorgasbord of tones”

    • Slightly smaller than tone print line, simpler design/operation

    • In/out/power on the top!

    • Fuzz, distortion, metal distortion, overdrive, digital delay, analog delay, reverb, compressor, booster, phaser, flanger, vibrato, chorus

    • Available in November

    • http://www.tcelectronic.com/smorgasbord-of-tones/

  • Pedal Genie

  • Strymon Riverside multistage drive (Stab: JHS Twin Twelve)

    • Strymon’s first drive pedal!

    • Hybrid JFET/DSP design

    • Low/High gain modes for vintage style drive or more modern saturated distortions

    • Push control toggles between flat or mid-bump EQ

      • EQ push is after the analog front-end gain

    • Continuously variable circuit tuning tweaks multiple parameters under the hood as you change the Drive control. “Infinite Sweet Spot” as they call it.

    • Favorite switch offers 1 preset, plus current setting. Like 2 drives in one.

    • Boost switch input for +6db, expression input controls any/all knobs in any direction OR used in “volume mode” to control volume level of effect

    • 3-way Presence toggle on rear panel. Used for adding brightness/darkness to different amps

    • Secondary controls for Noise Reduction and Boost Level.

    • http://www.strymon.net/products/riverside/

  • Sweetwater Custom In-ear designer (stab: Wampler 30 Something)

    • Partnered up with Westone

    • Customize the model, color, faceplate, logo, and cable choices

    • Sweetwater will then recommend an audiologist in your area to get the custom ear impressions made

    • http://www.sweetwater.com/custom/westone/home

  • PRS Guitar Clinic (stab: Walrus Audio Plainsman)

Ep. 73 - It's A Dongle! It's a Dingus!

Ep. Seventy fob - It's A Dongle! It's A Dingus! 

  • Xvive U2 Wireless Guitar System (stab: OBNE Procession)

    • Small transmitter and receiver set for easy wireless guitar setups

    • Swivel connector accommodates all kinds of guitar jack styles (strat, inset tele, LP, etc)

    • 5 hour battery charged over USB (Y-cable included)

    • 4 channels, super easy set up.

    • 100 foot range, <6ms latenecy,

    • Works with all stringed instruments with passive pickups. Still works well with fuzz, wah, other weird pedals.

    • http://www.xviveaudio.com/productInfo.asp?id=298

  • EarthQuaker Devices Transmisser Resonant Reverb (stab:JHS Twin Twelve)

  • Pedal Genie

  • Brainworx Rockrack V3 (stab: Caroline Olympia)

  • Fender Offset Series (stab: Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz)

    • Reintroducing the old 50s-60s “student guitars” in their own line

    • Scale length: strat has a 25.5” scale, LP is 24.75”

    • Duo-Sonic

      • 24” scale, modern C neck, 9.5” radius

      • Two single coil duo-sonic pickups (strong in “upper harmonics, articulate midrange”)

      • Hardtail string through strat style bridge

    • Duo-Sonic HS

      • Same as above with a humbucker in the bridge

      • HB can be split

    • Mustang

      • Slightly different body shape than the Duo-Sonic, don’t be fooled

      • Mustang pickups (i bet they’re the same as the DS)

      • Pretty much a Duo-Sonic.

    • Mustang 90

      • Mustang with 2 P-90s!

      • Same specs as the rest

    • Mustang Bass PJ

      • 30” scale length, 9.5” radius, 19 frets(?)

      • Jazz bass pickup at the bridge, P-bass pickup at the neck

      • Vol/Tone and a 3-way selector, weird!

    • http://shop.fender.com/en-US/duo-sonic-mustang

Ep. 72 - Child Size Ear Plugs

Ep. 72 - Child Size Ear Plugs

Ep. 71 - I'm Gonna Tell My Phone My Name Is Bro

Ep. 70 - This Should Absolutely Be Called Something Different

  • The Sixties (stab: the famous Chick-a-wah)

  • PositiveGrid BIAS Rack (stab: Keeley Phase 24)

    • Rackmount version of the new BIAS head

    • Up for preorder, shipping in September

    • $1000

    • We talked about this in episode 60, “Will It Gig?”

  • Pirate Guitar Effects Plank Preamp & Boost (stab: Mr Black Supermoon)

  • Ernie Ball Overdrive and Ambient Delay Expression Pedals (stab: Way Huge Red Llama)

  • Pedal Genie

  • Mesa stuff (stab: JHS Twin Twelve)

  • Antares ATG-1 guitar autotune (stab: Walrus Audio Jupiter Fuzz)

    • String-Tune: Utilizing Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology to correct the pitch of each guitar string, String-Tune makes your guitar come through an amplifier perfectly in tune.

    • Solid-Tune®: Constantly monitors the pitch of each individual string and makes any corrections necessary to ensure a perfectly intonated fretboard, while still allowing bends and vibratos.

    • Alternate Tunings & Doublings: The ATG-1 features alternate tunings, including DADGAD, Drop D, Open E, and Open G. Doublings include Twelve String, Parallel Octaves and Fifths. You also have the ability to create and store your own custom alternate tunings and doublings!

    • Guitar Modeling: Select from different guitar models and pickup models so your guitar will sound like the classic and modern electric guitars, acoustic guitars and bass guitars.

    • Virtual Capo: Transpose your guitar up or down a full octave in standard or any alternate tuning.

    • Presets: The ATG-1 has the capacity to store 64 presets for instant recall.

    • The ATG-1 Floor Processor also includes stereo outputs, tone controls, and accepts MIDI control inputs.

    • Docs on iphone is crap and wont let me paste this link without jumping through hoops.

Ep. 69 - He's Got Strong Knob Game

  • Coppersound Pedals!

  • Seymour Duncan Saturday Night Specials (stab: Boss DM2w)

    • New set of humbuckers from Duncan

    • Supposed to fit between vintage spec pickups and modern pickups

    • More aggressive than 50’s style HB’s but without the compression of high-gain pickups

    • Think late 70’s arena rock

    • Alnico 4 magnets offer flatter more even frequency response, less cut in the highs than 5’s

    • “Great for classic rock when you need a clean or semi-distorted tone with plenty of character”

    • 4 conductor for tapping/splitting options, nickel, gold, black uncovered or zebra uncovered options

    • $250/pair

    • http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/24503-seymour-duncan-announces-saturday-night-special-pickups

  • Xotic RC Booster 2 (Stab: CMAT Butah)

    • Clean boost with bass and treble controls, a classic pedal from Xotic

    • Now with Gain 2!

    • Dual footswitch: bypass and Gain 2. Stacks gain 2 on top of gain 1.

    • 9-18V for loads of headroom

    • Version 1 is being discontinued! Get ‘em while you still can. Or don’t.

    • http://xotic.us/rcbv2

  • Pedal Genie

  • Coppersound Talk (stab: Earthquaker Rainbow Machine)

Ep. 68 - Update! Music Stands Are Still Pieces of Shit

 

Ep. 67 - Guitar Words!

Ep. 67 - Guitar words!

Ep. 66 - True Biased Pass-ted

 

Ep. 65 - Basically Musically Unusable

65 - Basically Musically Unusable

Tony from PedalGenie.com is here! 

  • Orange Two Stroke clean boost (Stab: Bogner Wessex overdrive)

    • 12db of clean boost to push your amp

    • Internal charge pump doubles voltage to 18v

    • “Oil” control is for the amount of boost, as well as high and low eq

    • 2 frequency controls sweep a finely tuned Q curve

      • 850Hz - 8.5KHz

      • 120Hz - 1.2KHz

    • Hi/Low set to noon is 0. Boost or cut.

    • Great for getting more from your amp, EQing your current tone, or revoicing pickups

    • https://orangeamps.com/two-stroke/

  • Gretsch Electromatic Collection updates (Stab: JHS Twin Twelve)

  • Tony from Pedal Genie is here! pedalgenie.com

Ep. 64 - Shiny Vibe, Bro!

Ep. 63 - Let's do the other stupid thing

Ep. 62 - What's The Deal With Amps?

62 - What’s The Deal With Amps? 

  • Gear Supply Co. has bass strings! (Stab: Caroline Cannonball)
    • $20/shipment. Free shipping, free picks. 
  • Surprisingly Awesome Podcast (Stab: Wren and Cuff Box of War)
    • Podcast about stuff that seems pretty regular and boring but they deconstruct and point out how surprisingly awesome some things are
    • Episode 10 is about the circle of 5ths! Neat! 
    • Break down how the brain understands sound and then what makes certain musical patterns pleasing.
    • https://gimletmedia.com/episode/10-circle-of-fifths/ 
  • Fender American Elite Basses (stab: Earthquaker Ghost Echo)
    • This is the line that replaced the American Deluxe
    • 5 instruments in the line: P-bass, 4 and 5 string Jazz, and 4 and 5 string Dimension
    • P-bass has two pickups. Standard P-Bass pickup + jazz bass pickup in the bridge position 
    • http://shop.fender.com/en-US/series-american-elite-electrics/ 
  • Tons of stuff from Earthquaker Devices! (Stab: Mr Black Supermoon)
    • Gray Channel Dual Dirt Device
      • Overdrive with tons of sounds! 
      • 2 channels, 3 clipping options on each
      • Green channel clipping options - Germanium, Silicon, and None 
      • Red channel clipping options - LED, Mosfet, and, None
    • Night Wire Dynamic Harmonic Tremolo
      • “Signal split into high and low pass filters, then modulated with an LFO that is split 180 degrees”
      • Tons of different filtering options. Letting the center point filters be adjusted. 
      • Attack mode adjusts the rate of the trem based on pick attack. Cool! 
      • Depth set to zero will act as a fixed filter or phaser 
    • Spacial Delivery Envelope Filter (another stab here: THE CHIKA-WAA!)
      • Up sweep, down sweep, or sample/hold mode
      • Resonance and filter controls accentuate the sweep, really vocal or really subtle 
      • Sounds cool on lead dialed back a little bit.
    • Spires Fuzz Doubler 
      • 2 channels
        • Green side is inspired by a 60’s Rosac Nu Fuzz. Full blown fuzz at all times. Simple tone control for changing...tone 
      • Red side is a silicon version of the discontinued EQD Dream Crusher. Classic transistor fuzz but redesigned to be more stable and “less temperature sensitive”... huh. 
  • Pedal Genie
    • Strymon BigSky http://www.strymon.net/bigsky/ 
    • Bogner Wessex http://www.bogneramplification.com/wessex-pedals 
  • Listener Mail (stab: Walrus Audio Mayflower)

Ep. 61 - What Are You Bouncing On?

61 - What Are You Bouncing On?

 

Master tone control - Dad bands.

Jack from Too Late The Hero is joining us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF_Xb1yg1gk

Quick Rundown:

  • Guitar World has finally decided to end the “swimsuit edition” gear guides. (Stab : BE Cadavernous Reverb)
    http://bit.ly/1YaJTfb

  • Warmoth introduced the Nomad Body & Neck. Explorer style, more like Ibanez Destroyer though. Thick enough for a whammy! (stab: CBA Warped Vinyl)

 

NEWS:

  • Keeley Monterey Fuzz (stab: WA Plainsman)

    • Nasty 60’s fuzz with extra effects on board

    • Fuzz on one footswitch, and then Modulation sounds accessed via the mini toggle/second footswitch

    • Rotary Speaker, Univibe, Harmonic Trem, and Auto Wah…!

    • Octave knob is set to 0 at 12oclock. Clockwise for up octave blend, CCW for sub octave blend

    • Expression in lets you control the depth of the vibe, other parameters

    • 9 different paint jobs all in the style of Hendrix’s Monterey Pop Strat. Cool!

    • $299, currently on back order.

    • https://robertkeeley.com/product/monterey-fuzz-vibe-workstation/

  • Digitech Whammy Ricochet (WA Mayflower)

    • It’s a whammy pedal without the expression pedal (like the Boss SuperShifter or Harmonist, or whatever it was)

    • Footswitch can be set to momentary or latching

    • 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, octave, 2 octave, octave + dry

    • Mini toggle for raising pitch or lowering pitch

    • Stacked pot controls how quickly it reaches your target pitch (octave down, 5th above, etc) and how quickly it returns to pitch.

    • Push and hold footswitch to access “classic whammy” mode which is full of weird artifacts and glitchy sounds

    • $187.44

    • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRECArfFKhk

    • http://digitech.com/en-US/products/whammy-ricochet

  • Pedal Genie

  • TLTH links…