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I was recently Moog’s customer of the month and they gave me a Moogerfooger MF-101 Lowpass Filter that I have fallen in love with. It is a special edition that had the wood sides decorated by an artist.I have never been a big fan of auto-wahs or envelope filters because they don’t trigger well for fingerpicking. The Moog pedal triggers perfectly for me and it is amazingly expressive, they really worked hard to make it so interactive even small control changes give another sweet tone. I am very impressed with this Moogerfooger and I may look into others in the line at some point. This pedal also does the “cocked wah” tones in a gorgeous fashion ala Mick Ronson with the right settings. The liquid vocal tones of the MF-101 are absolutely gorgeous, I have not played electric guitar without it for the last 3 weeks or so.

Quote from joe on August 12, 2012, 14:16
Those are all super-cool.

Yes indeed, and I’m pretty damned happy with them all. They keep me from going off the deep end in buying more stuff because a lot of demos I hear I get to thinking about how I could probably get really close with what I’ve already got. And it’s generally true.

BTW, a good “hard chop” tremolo is the Kay — you can find DIY versions online pretty easily.

That was on my list until I got boards to build some of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Azaot2Qzs&feature=plcp

Quote from Digital Larry on August 13, 2012, 15:23
The Adrenalinn, in my experience, wins the “where did the last 2 hours go”? award.

Which is part of the joy of it. I’ve been able to reinvent how I approach stale material by doing a different approach to the modulation and a different BPM and/or drum pattern — just playing differently because I’m playing off a new sound. It’s a deep enough box that you hardly run out of places to go. Mine is still the first version without upgrades and going strong.

Crazy about my Foxrox Octron! I could start a collection of octave-fuzzes, I enjoy variations on the theme. I love the twingey touches of ring-modulation that peek out around the edges of notes- particularly during double-steps (especially with wide-intervals), oblique-bends, and volume swells- and the way that they interact with your “touch” and volume-knobs. I usually feed them into other sources of overdrive/distortion, either pedal or amp, although I will occasionally use the Octave-Down of my Octron blended with its Direct (straight) going to a clean, warm amp-tone.

I am also completely rabid for good Leslie-emulation, particularly in stereo; I have and get a LOT of miles out of a Boss RT-20, the ONLY digital pedal that I have and will feed into a tube-amp. (I use digital-modeler/multi-effects, but they will ONLY go direct to the board, strictly in parallel to a tube-amp, NEVER connected to the input or ‘loop of a tube-amp.)

If I take any pedals with me at all along with a real-live tube-amp, in addition to my StroboStomp tuner, I’ll take the Octron and the RT-20, and maybe my Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah; but DEFINITELY the tuner, Octron and RT-20.

I have and use a great crazy mad-scientist gizmo, the Maniac Music Sustainiac Model C acoustic feedback generator; it consists of a big stompbox that is the amplifier for a vibrating-transducer that clamps onto the headstock, inducing feedback much like a loud amp and speakers would. I love this thing! It’s a bit cumbersome for live use, though, particularly with the cable and clamp on the headstock, but it’s worth it!

Quote from mwseniff on August 12, 2012, 15:33
I was recently Moog’s customer of the month and they gave me a Moogerfooger MF-101 Lowpass Filter that I have fallen in love with. It is a special edition that had the wood sides decorated by an artist.I have never been a big fan of auto-wahs or envelope filters because they don’t trigger well for fingerpicking. The Moog pedal triggers perfectly for me and it is amazingly expressive, they really worked hard to make it so interactive even small control changes give another sweet tone. I am very impressed with this Moogerfooger and I may look into others in the line at some point. This pedal also does the “cocked wah” tones in a gorgeous fashion ala Mick Ronson with the right settings. The liquid vocal tones of the MF-101 are absolutely gorgeous, I have not played electric guitar without it for the last 3 weeks or so.

Interesting! Sounds great! I too play fingerstyle/without a pick, 100% of the time, and also dig the cocked/parked-wah sound so well exemplified by Mick Ronson and Michael Schenker…