Blastronaut

I'll give it a watch! Think they own coolaudio who make most of the BB chips you'll find in a lot of reverb and delay pedals. It's two of their "Prince of tones" stacked in one box, and there's fuck all special about the PoT parts wise (but admittedly it does sound pretty good). Check out the cunts Instagram, he's prancing around playing tennis and flying around dirt tracks most of the time, doesnae even build the pedals himself these days. Two year waiting list is a con, just artificially creating demand.

Haven't seen that but I wouldn't doubt it for a second. Can't patent or copyright a schematic so a lot of these big name pedals are literal exact clones of other stuff, no legal issues at all. Behringer have the advantage owning a fuckton of manufacturing plants that make semiconductors and Belton Bricks, so it's no surprise they can massively undercut some of the more respected brand names. I like Josh from what I've seen of him, seems quite happy to admit nothing he sells is new or original and most of this shit was childsplay even back in the 70s.

Tbf most of the chat I've seen here is around more modern stuff. Youse would've heard a lot more from me if you were lusting after stuff like the analogman pedals. Nothing wrong with them and he knows his stuff but just rips the utter piss with his prices. £200 quid base price, DC power sockets and a wee LED to tell you whether it's on or off are fucking optional extras at £20 a pop. Then the cunts got the cheek to stamp the name of a 10p transistor on the front to give off the impression that it made with rare and expensive parts. But hey, this stuff is only worth what folk are willing to pay for it. Anyway, rant over. Honestly dunno why I focused all that at Mike "analogman" Piera, he's far from the worst offender. Thankfully the helix looks a bit cumbersome to be turned into a pacemaker. Line6 punting medical gear sounds like the start of a Black Mirror episode. "if your Line6 life support machine freezes or glitches, turn it off and remove the power source for 3 three minutes, then reboot while pressing the tap tempo button in time with the hi-hat from Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue"

Cheers man! Hope it works out for you, tone is subjective and all that but I'd say the Zendrive is well deserving of the hype, just not the price tag. Most folk seem to like stacking it with another overdrive, Timmy seems the most popular option but a fella once messaged me raving about how great it was into a Voodoo Labs Sparkle drive with its "clean blend" and after finally getting round to building one of those I'd have to say he was right. I fell for it before even stacking it with other pedals, on its own at extreme settings got into those Hellacopters "High Visibility" tones. Return address will be on the box, feel free to publish it anywhere and rip me to shreds if you think I've pulled a fast one.

Missed the 4th knob question, the lower one is a standard tone control, the top one is the Zendrive "voice" control. On paper it doesn't sound all that intuitive but essentially it dials out low end and slightly increases the ammount of gain available. Full ccw, more low end but a bit less drive available on the gain knob, fully clockwise, less low end, slightly more drive.

No worries. Theres a whole scene of eggheads who literally trace these circuits from photographs of the guts of the original pedals, usually to try to call these "boutique" cunts out. There's no black magic, it's all 60 odd year old tech and the schematics for the original circuits are widely available. 99% of the "boutique" analogue pedal scene is honestly just people modifying already tried and true circuits. Few examples, the D.A.M Meathead is literally just a slightly tweaked clone of the old Coloursound One Knob Fuzz, the original JHS Angry Charlie was traced and "borrowed" from a small time Aussie fella (even Josh Scott himself would tell you that, just added another capacitor to shave off some high end). Robert Keeley made a name for himself modding Boss and Ibanez pedals, his own pedals aren't all that far removed. Vast majority of it is nowhere near worth a few hundred quid. The Zendrive least of all. Probably barely a tenner in parts.

£30 is probably fair for something like this thats getting mass produced. I'll level with you, none of the sought after and supposedly "boutique" analogue pedals on the market that I've cloned are even close to £15 in parts. Could easily half that if you're building a few hundred at a time.

Yeah man. It's probably the about the 20th Zendrive Clone I've made over the years. I used to just do amp repairs and custom pedal builds locally as a side gig but that all died on its arse when the music scene shut down. I'm reduced to punting random speculative stuff on ebay and reverb until gigs start happening again and the tech work picks up. I only ended up here to flog a Newcastle themed pedal I'd made for a friend of a friend who vanished off the face of the planet when the pubs shut. Surprised I haven't outstayed my welcome yet tbh.

Demo's sound alright but I'll stick with my Zendrive clones. Can't match these for price but have got one listed right now if anyone's really after a Dumble in a box. Ebay Zendrive Good luck with the flitting, don't envy you in the slightest. Fucking nightmare moving house at the best of times, never mind in the middle of a pandemic.

Nice guitars like but Ive long been affected by this weird involuntary reaction whenever someone mentions them. Similar to the reaction I had that time my landlord mentioned possibly putting up the rent in the same breath as saying he'd bought a new Audi R8. @Tom could just grab a cheap cab sim pedal with a headphone out to stick at the end of your board? If you want something more portable and not tied to your pedalboard those Vox Amplug things are quite handy for just wandering about the house with headphones.

Fuck if anyone's actually gonna use that let me know and I'll spend more than 3 minutes on it. Use of that logo is conditional though, I politely request you donate at least 5 pence to any given charity (your own beer fund is fine by me) just so we can safely say that Fish Energy has generated more cash than Gimli's weird bathtub concoction.

Aye man. With a decent interface latency isn't really an issue. 3ms latecy is nothing. Even 10ms is fuck all compared to trying jam with real people after 6 pints. Serious question: if the Fly didn't exist, would you ever go out of your way to buy a plastic speaker cab with a 3" driver for your guitar?

The fish or the entrepreneur?

#codliveroilandproplus #bathtubconcotions #neverbathedanyway #entrepreneur

Doesnae look any worse either.

Never played one but know a few people from the diy scene who rate them as handy little headphone amps. I'd be tempted to write off the 3" speaker as just for novelty value, but saying that a mate of mines has a Yamaha THR5 and I think it's speakers are almost the same size (that thing is great fun).

I hear you. I've sold a few wahs over the years. Never really use them often enough to justify having them but after a few months or years without one lying around I end up back trying to fill the void. Swings and roundabouts.

If you haven't already, follow the Sopranos back to its roots in Oz (and to a lesser extent maybe even Northern Exposure)

Sounds ideal. Speaking of shit pedal names I briefly had a Bad Horsie and loved the "clickless" action but not being able to leave it cocked really wound me up after a while. I only tend to always go back to crybabies since they're relatively easy to mod or just transplant totally different circuits in (vibe, trem, etc.). Mines is on the shelf gather dust right now not getting played (just the basic '95). Got really into tremolo again lately so I'm tempted to gut out the wah circuit and jam something like the Tremulus Line in there. If that works out I'll probably be looking for another cheap wah sometime in the next 6 months.

Is the wah the Hellbabe? I nearly bought one a few years ago but ended up just getting another second hand CryBaby. Looks interesting on paper (optical?) and the behringer pedals I've played have all sounded fine, only really negatives being the plastic enclosures. I had a Boss DD6 and never got on with it, probably close to being the same pedal as that delay. Too many options for a simpleton like me. I'm much more at home with something like the Carbon Copy.

I dont hold put any hope for anyone who didn't work it out when the first Brexit vote count came in from, you know, Gibraltar.

Honestly never meant to sound dickish with that earlier comment. The anasounds stuff I've seen looks decent (albeit a bit gimmicky but I'm in no place to talk about gimmicks) but throwing that kinda cash at a power supply is just alien to me. If a second or third mains socket wasnt an option I'd sooner find a way to wire up an old car battery in an empty speaker cabinet than open my wallet.

I really miss playing with other musicians. I can't even blame covid restrictions either, had to pack it in a few years ago, young family and all that. Last bunch I was involved with had a great setup, totally free practice space in the rarely used function room of a local boozer. Decent wee pub too. Bit of a dive and had its fair share of bellends but had a dartboard, good Guinness, pool table and showed the horse racing. Really hope that place survives all this. Not just because I still dream about hanging around a boozer all day and jamming between pints, but we've lost too many of the pubs down that way already.

£250 on a power supply? Each to their own like, but my entire board cost less than that man.

Just thinking out loud here but might be useful to some: for high current draw stuff like the Kraken if your power supply has 2x500mA outputs you can hook them up in parallel to get 1A, just use a daisy chain cable backwards. Won't work for me and Tom though since our supply's don't have 2 high current outputs. Edit: ah fuck my bad, the Kraken is 12V so you'd need two 12V outputs with at least 500mA each.