Are vintage pedals better? [JHS Video]

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Courtesy of @Yeti via the GT whatsapp group.

A fun watch, enlightening too - if you are that way inclined 😸

Bonus one for ya....he did a Big Muff shoot-out too!

guidothepimmp

Oh no.. could it really be? 😁

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I got embroiled in a RAT debate last year. I gave up - it would seem that the rarity and how happy you are with your sound correlates...who knew! 🤣

The previous yr I got into a shoot out of TS pedals - Joyo Vintage OD vs the (12x more $$$) 30th Anniversary Ibby TS9 vs Voodoo Labs Sparkle drive vs whatever we could find. The Joyo was close to the 30th Anniversary Ibby pedal - but the voodoo labs kicked ass....it has a clean signal blend.

Now I'm gassing for Fuzzes. Sigh

guidothepimmp

Confess I must... those sparkle drive pedals get me all hot n bothered. There. I said it.

I had a ts808 and i couldnt agree with it. Now i use a bbe green screamer and i quite fancy that

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If I'm gassing for pedals, there must be some kinda reason... 😆

guidothepimmp There. I said it.

Ditto 😅

guidothepimmp

Eh.. i lived in the frankly blinkered space of "who needs pedals anyways. Plug guitar straight into the amp and rock"
And while that still holds true to a large extent, pedals add soooo much versatility.
It also helps knowing what works for you and what doesnt, lest you end up fiddling more than playing.

Took me 20yrs to.. errr.. learn i guess.

So i currently have 1 old pedal. A morley chorus. It is on a board together with a delay and reverb... Those are the fxloop gang. Then i use 3 drive pedals into the front. And theres a looper. Got a cool Tokai flanger from the 70s or 80s.. but i broke the input jack. Unwired and cannot seem to wire a new one back in.. so its parked 😐

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guidothepimmp Took me 20yrs to.. errr.. learn i guess.

Not alone! I have tried a bunch, but initially...just humbuckers, metal zone + amp gain was enough. Then came delays, flanger, wah. Then a strat = wah, reverb and overdrive. Then bass = autowah's, fuzz, eq and compressors.

That's the simplified version of it, I don't recall everything I went pre GT, I had some really interesting ancient wah's (one had a octave fuzz 🤯 ) and a couple interesting modulation pedals - the metal zone was even a MIJ - but this was before I had a clue about collectability, how to order them, etc...About 12 yrs before YT became a thing, so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it 😅