The sounds you already know will shape your acoustic habits and expectations and every new impression of sound will be measured by these aspects.
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Category: Line6
Blind Digital Delay Comparison: Line 6 Echo Park vs. Akai Headrush
This is a blind comparison of the Line 6 Echo Park with the Akai Headrush.
gear: Epiphone Riviera (with P-94 Pickups)Fender Tweed Champ, Celestion G12M, Shure SM57, Cubase.
Solution : Continue reading “Blind Digital Delay Comparison: Line 6 Echo Park vs. Akai Headrush”
Multi Overdrive Part 3
In the first part of this article, I dedicated myself to multi overdrive pedals in general.
In the second part I introduced some interesting analog multi overdrive pedals.
And in this last part I would like to present some digital multi pedals. Continue reading “Multi Overdrive Part 3”
Delay Blind Comparison: Fulltone Tube Tape Echo vs. Line6 DL4
This is a blind comparison of the Fulltone Tube Tape Echo with the Line6 DL4.
Solution: Continue reading “Delay Blind Comparison: Fulltone Tube Tape Echo vs. Line6 DL4”
Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man vs. Line 6 Echo Park – Delay Comparison
This is a comparison of the Line 6 Echo Park with the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man.
gear: Fender Telecaster, Fender Tweed Champ, Celestion G12M, Shure SM57, Cubase.
Effect History: Multi Digital Delays (Part 2)
The next generation
The first part of this series was about the Boss DD-20 and the Line6 DL4.
Both pedals have been the standard for a long time and still they are pretty popular.
But they have been replaced by technically extensive pedals of the next generation. Continue reading “Effect History: Multi Digital Delays (Part 2)”
Effect History: The first multi digital delays (Part 1)
Almost every guitarist who is addicted to delays is always searching for the perfect delay sound.
Uncountable analog and digital delays are jockeying for space on the pedalboard.
Early 21st century numerous manufacturers recognized this dilemma and started to invent multi digital delays.
Some of them I would like to present in a three-part series. Continue reading “Effect History: The first multi digital delays (Part 1)”
Tube amp, transistor, NuTube
Guitarists are known to be pretty traditional and therefore love tube amps.
Tube amps (mostly) sound quite well but at the same time they are (typically) pretty loud.
And especially in this day and age the use of PA systems is standard everywhere, a guitarist who plays just for fun or maybe even semi-professional will not be able to use a 100 Watts amp head. Continue reading “Tube amp, transistor, NuTube”
The first tape delay emulations
For a long time, the sound of a good tape delay is considered as the ideal delay for guitarists.
On the one hand the sound of a tape delay mostly is more warm and full than the sound of a digital delay on the other hand the tape delay sounds not as dull or wooly like an analog delay sometimes does. Continue reading “The first tape delay emulations”
Delay Blind Comparison: Line 6 Echo Park vs. Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man
This is a blind comparison of the digital Line 6 Echo Park with the analog Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man (because the sound of the DMM gets pretty close to the sound of a real tape echo).
Clarification:
Continue reading “Delay Blind Comparison: Line 6 Echo Park vs. Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man”
How to control the parameters of a pedal
Expression-pedals, Midi, CV and Apps
Expression-pedals
The first pedal that could be controlled with an expression-pedal in real time was the Uni-Vibe. The advantage was that you could adjust the swiftness without taking the hands off the strings. Later this function could also be found in Auto-Wahs. In this way the pedal could be controlled just like a real Wah. Continue reading “How to control the parameters of a pedal”
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