My Rig

[knives490]

Yeah, the digiverb would be better suited for pre-fuzz uses. especially with no time control.. I cant use it :/ Ive got to have octoverb for a spcial song anyways

I hope it opens up new worlds too! I'm confident in it

What verb did you end up wanting?

[Myxomatosis]

I'm still very interested in the cathedral, just waiting for more demos and reviews on it before i purchase it! And would like to get the verbzilla as well! I wont get rid of my RV-5 im really happy with the modulated reverb on it!

[knives490]

Damn, 3 verbs? You could go: Reverse>Octave>Modulated for some amazing sounds then when you get the reverse [cathedral] going, hold the infinite for instantaneous gazey verb goodness with absolutely no trouble.

[knives490]

Well, I'm getting more acquainted with everything and my Tele is finally finding some happy drive tones!!! This J&H loves my tele. Juicing it up with some spanky overdrive or getting some crunch-heavy rhythm. And I almost thought I couldnt stand it

Still waiting for my Danecho and Verbzilla... hopefully tomorrow will be my last day of waiting Then, pics!!! And new sounds/songs.

Michel, expect a message soon, I have some typing to do. Eric, you know what I'm talking about.

[Myxomatosis]

Originally Posted by knives490

Damn, 3 verbs? You could go: Reverse>Octave>Modulated for some amazing sounds then when you get the reverse [cathedral] going, hold the infinite for instantaneous gazey verb goodness with absolutely no trouble.

haha I do love my verbs yeah im planning to run the cathedral first before all my other verbs to get that nice reverse happening along with infinite verb, should get some real nice huge sounding verbs i hope!

Originally Posted by knives490

Well, I'm getting more acquainted with everything and my Tele is finally finding some happy drive tones!!! This J&H loves my tele. Juicing it up with some spanky overdrive or getting some crunch-heavy rhythm. And I almost thought I couldnt stand it

Still waiting for my Danecho and Verbzilla... hopefully tomorrow will be my last day of waiting Then, pics!!! And new sounds/songs.

Michel, expect a message soon, I have some typing to do. Eric, you know what I'm talking about.

Glad you sorted out some of the issues with the tele, they are great playing guitars!

Hahaha I know exactly what your talkin about Nate

[DemoColorScheme]

Originally Posted by knives490

Michel, expect a message soon, I have some typing to do. Eric, you know what I'm talking about.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbop!

[Myxomatosis]

Originally Posted by knives490

Damn, 3 verbs? You could go: Reverse>Octave>Modulated for some amazing sounds then when you get the reverse [cathedral] going, hold the infinite for instantaneous gazey verb goodness with absolutely no trouble.

haha I do love my verbs yeah im planning to run the cathedral first before all my other verbs to get that nice reverse happening along with infinite verb, should get some real nice huge sounding verbs i hope!

Originally Posted by knives490

Well, I'm getting more acquainted with everything and my Tele is finally finding some happy drive tones!!! This J&H loves my tele. Juicing it up with some spanky overdrive or getting some crunch-heavy rhythm. And I almost thought I couldnt stand it

Still waiting for my Danecho and Verbzilla... hopefully tomorrow will be my last day of waiting Then, pics!!! And new sounds/songs.

Michel, expect a message soon, I have some typing to do. Eric, you know what I'm talking about.

Glad you sorted out some of the issues with the tele, they are great playing guitars!

Hahaha I know exactly what your talkin about Nate

[knives490]

Deja vu Eric!

post-MMbop-core is in it's fertile new beginning stage

Yeah, Im loving the tele now and just waiting for my new pedals. Hopefully putting the new bypass on the ddl-3 today so that Ill have two great delays. [lofi sim and great 12 bit digital Makes me melt] then add the Verbzilla on top of that and youve got my happiness in a pedalboard.

Ive also got a few pedal ideas in the works but for now Im finishing up on the few last orders and then doing toma's EoC then a future project which will be the biggest and besterest, but that wil take more time

New sounds and sketches will be recorded and sent soon via my soundclick. I also need to update the Stargazer FX website and do a few more new things.

[Prime]

What kind of drives and settings are using on your tele.

I have the same model, and I'm finding it difficult to get any good overdrive tone through my orange, I've got the big muff, but i'd rather not use that to drive it for crunchy rhythm, and I just bought a blues driver, if this helps.

[knives490]

Yeah, man I saw your thread and was wondering how it sounded through the orange. I start out with a clean and warm fendery tone with more midrange and then have two overdrive sounds and one distortion [Transparent Overdrive for smooth and gritty drive; Jeckyll for crunchy/heavy distortion, and the Hyde for tubescreamer overdrive but I like it more than any other tubescreamer I've tried! And when you start stacking it gets better ] but the Tele has been very peculiar. Soemtimes it will love the overdrive and sound fantastic. but then you trade it off for the [dual humbucker with coil tap] strat, and you get a much more refined sound. The strat definitely has a characteristic to it that Ive grown very fond of, but it cant be in two diff tunings. So Ive got the Tele in D-standard and it has the fantastic middle position for a great clean tone and the edgy bridge and soulful neck pickup. It just takes time to find what really melds right with it to find a good tone. I'd aim for the BBE Green Screamer or any tubescreamer derivative for slight edge to it.

[Prime]

cool, thanks.

through the orange it has a great clean tone, I've not heard anything like it, and I use it mainly for clean songs, it didn't take me long to find some great settings for it clean, and i sort have a good rhythm crunch setting with the big muff, but it's a little too high gain, and I prefer using it for leads (with my dot studio, high gain p/ups) and the 140's higher gain channel, which i use for rhythm with the dot, is more of a lead channel channel, with the telecaster it's not warm and creamy enough, very harsh and full of bite, but not enough gain and drive for my tastes, great for a dedicated blues player.

I will look at tubescreamers, they sound promising.

[knives490]

Yeah, the Big Muff is very good for Muff-ed out Scooped mids wall of fuzz tones, and not much else unless you can find some kind of context to work it in with. That's why I stick to things with a touch of mids added in If I were you, ad stick to the Orange for the clean and rhythm tones and rely on the Tubescreamer to push the amp in solos. The much more simpler and authentic approach can be very helpful to find your own tone. And if the tele doesnt sound good on the Orange's crunch channel, then find something that will work with it alone and have that extra sound on there for it. Ya never know; an EQ may help you out!

[Prime]

Yeah I find the dot sounds better, it holds the mids alot better on the gain channel, and theres enough output on the stock pickups to push it close to screams, ideal for more punk like songs.

Ironically, with my carlsbro half stack I had to use a EQ pedal to get rid of all the bass, even with the amps knob on 0, it still had loads. But I realise that now I have the orange the carlsbro destroys a guitars natural tone.

Would the ibanez ts-9 be a good tube screamer?

[knives490]

Yeah, its all according to how strong the pickups are, and all of the factors that the guitar itself adds in. Your tele, the custom 2, is it the one with dual hums or p90s? It could be as simple as a pickup upgrade to make it better. And some good pickups can get you alot farther than searching for a good dirtbox and wasting money like Ive done before.

Damn, that thing mustve been a beast to try and play without rattling the house! I love how bassy my fenders can get, but I still have to tone them down to keep them from rattling the windows.

Yeah the TS-9 and TS-808 are "the" tubescreamers, but there are alot more options out there and most can be found easily:

Boss SD-1 [needs modding, but is easily done]
Digitech Bad Monkey
BBE Green Screamer [has its own sort of unique flavor]
Ibanez TS-7
Ibanez TS-9
Ibanez TS-808
Ibanez TS-808HW [personally, I could care less, but its what everyone loves and they're trying to be boutique; you can buy an amazing boutique tubescreamer for WAY less than that; but these are all at Guitar Center]
Visual Sounds Route 808 [I love Visual Sounds pedals, so I can only expect good from this one ]

then there are, literally, thousands more in the boutique world.EVERYONE makes a tubescreamer and its always better than the original. That's why you may end up going through a few just to find which one has been crafted and sounds the way you actually love.

Get ready for a long journey.

[Prime]

Yeah its the 2, the p90 loaded one, that ones fine, its my new fender mexican standard thats a problem that why it's of my set up for a while till I learn how to get a sound closer to what I like. at the minute its set for use with clean songs, but i'd like to use more or less for everything(I'm lazy and hate switching guitars through sets....)

And yeah, absolutely everything that isn't nailed down rattles... Even with the volume at just under 9 o'clock, and the gain just over 9 o'clock, any loader and it's intollerable, and stuff starts falling over.

And thanks for the advice. The TS-9 is the only one I've had chance to use before, I've not heard any of the others. It took me ages to settle on the big muff for fuzzed hi gain leads that i like to play, I went through most of boss's distortion/overdrive pedals, and they had too much bite or sounded like tin/fizzy... put the blues driver is something i like to use.

Im using the squier for now, the p90's have a great balance of bass and treble for distorted tones, and when clean it isn't muddy like the HB's of the dot and they don't cut me into 2 pieces like the singles on the mexican tele can. They make me want to get a really good pair of moderate output p90's for my epiphone as the standard HB's are good, but bring a bit of mud with them if the bass knob is rolled up a bit too much.

The only pickup I think I would be willing to upgrade for is the dimarzio pre b-1, its the only one I've had chance to use that I thought still sounded like a tele, but covrs a wider range, if you know what I mean.