Ooft! For 1.5k i at least want a pick guard, i mean, for realz
Forgot to say I got one of these last month
Tracks amazingly, the filter is moog-like and generally the tone is immensely rich on whatever setting and itās fun to use. Every time Iāve used it Iāve discovered something I could build a song around and ultimately thatās what you want a piece of gear to inspire, at least to me anyway.
The downside is if Iām ever gonna use it live im gonna need to fork out another Ā£100 for the preset switch, itāll be too difficult to recall settings on the fly mid gig otherwise.
That thing looks incredible. Iām really tempted to forget about the drum machine for this year and get one of those instead. Iāve been wanting a synth type thing for ages, but every time Iām face with one I remember i canāt really play the keyboard.
thatās never stopped me
Me too! Itās such a ridiculously deep pedal, and the range of sounds with the filters are mind blowing. Havenāt quite gotten my head around the arpeggio setting and how best to use it yet as Iāve mainly just been making slow-filtered wwwwwwwooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhuuuwwwwwwwww sounds with it.
Donāt know if you use midi at all, but Iāve been using the Chase Bliss Midibox Mk2 to save and recall presets via my ES-8. The Mk2 has internal dipswitches so you can use it with Empress and Meris pedals as well as Chase Bliss. Itās also around Ā£50 I think.
itās partly the knobs and setting and all of that. Iām fine with dozens of pedals but putting it all into a peculiar rectangle just baffles me
Have you seen the knobs video for it?
TBF Knobs could make any piece of shit pedal sound awesome, but when they get something like this
you get used to it after a few weeks
after a couple of years you can actually use it to sculpt precisely the sound you want in your head
Perhaps. I mean Iād love that to be the case, but Iām not sure Iām dedicated enough or something. Plus i think Iām probably just fascinated by synths, whereas I absolutely love making noises with guitar. Also, Iām just a hobby musician, and would never normally consider spending anywhere near that much on a pedal, but i have just two months to spend almost the exact price of this pedal, or lose it. itās like itās meant to be!!
How much is one of these? I reckon it would play very nicely with a Moog Grandmother for some extra modulation craziness
UK price is Ā£319, though I got it in a black Friday sale for about Ā£260.
Donāt know if Swedish prices are generally about equivalent or not but itās an absolutely brilliant little pedal. Meris are on a real hot-streak at the moment.
similar
3895 kr in my local independent specialist guitar pedal shop (Which is called āThese go to 11ā )
which is about Ā£330
Apparently thereāre some DIY options for adding circuits inside the preset switch too, so this pedal wouldnāt even screw too much with my wanting to have a DIY pedalboard.
I do like pearloid inlays
Why the flip did that not display in full? Click into it to see the whole thing anyway.
Iām still highly sceptical of Squier, even after the Bass VI.
Absolutely no reason to be these days. Havenāt played a bad Squier in a very long time.
I dunno, people were singing the praises of that Jaco-a-like fretless jazz bass and the VM one that is like a 70s reissue J and I tried both multiple times and thought they were complete shite.