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lerxstcat wrote:
Ah, the sweet smell of GAS!

Yeah, I've been blowing it lately. I now have 2 full pedal boards...one for using with a clean amp and getting Queen and Dokken sounds, another for use with a dirty/channel switcher doing basic rock.

Seriously, I may have lost an important part of my brain...the last month my total is over $1,000.

I know for the "one guitar should never cost under $5000" crowd that ain't much, but to me it is massive.

Sleek wrote:

lerxstcat wrote:
Ah, the sweet smell of GAS!

Yeah, I've been blowing it lately. I now have 2 full pedal boards...one for using with a clean amp and getting Queen and Dokken sounds, another for use with a dirty/channel switcher doing basic rock.

Seriously, I may have lost an important part of my brain...the last month my total is over $1,000.

I know for the "one guitar should never cost under $5000" crowd that ain't much, but to me it is massive.

It's all good! I remember my late buddy Clyde, he had a buttload of Les Paul Customs. A couple of Standards but he loved the Customs. We'd compare Ebay scores and he'd have an early 80s LPC, and I'd have a frikking Squier Stagemaster like you just got! He'd laugh at me, but hell, I liked 24 frets and a Floyd Rose, and 80s shred guitars were gong for peanuts in the early 2000s. I like the cheap stuff; if it looks, plays and sounds good, it IS good!

I DO own a genuine Les Paul just so I can go to the country club, but cheap guitars go with cheap sunglasses!

ElToro wrote:Has anyone tried the Nova System?

I've got it. Love the hell out of it too. I just run it through my loop because I'm in love with the preamp channels on my Koch Multitone, but it's killer. It already comes with the TC delay and chorus channels which are clean as hell....has a decent boost which I use as a subtle boost for bit parts and continue to use the lead boost on the Multitone for big solos.

Any questions in particular about it?

lerxstcat wrote:

Sleek wrote: It's all good! I remember my late buddy Clyde, he had a buttload of Les Paul Customs. A couple of Standards but he loved the Customs. We'd compare Ebay scores and he'd have an early 80s LPC, and I'd have a frikking Squier Stagemaster like you just got! He'd laugh at me, but hell, I liked 24 frets and a Floyd Rose, and 80s shred guitars were gong for peanuts in the early 2000s. I like the cheap stuff; if it looks, plays and sounds good, it IS good!

I DO own a genuine Les Paul just so I can go to the country club, but cheap guitars go with cheap sunglasses!

I actually don't really like Les Pauls...I've worked with them and owned them, but never bonded.

...so it always seems extra goofy when somebody is all:"Ooooh. Look at my Les Paul...I got it for $3,999, but they go for $5,000."

...because, you know, I wouldn't want it at any price.

Except to sell...

Sleek wrote:

lerxstcat wrote:

Sleek wrote: It's all good! I remember my late buddy Clyde, he had a buttload of Les Paul Customs. A couple of Standards but he loved the Customs. We'd compare Ebay scores and he'd have an early 80s LPC, and I'd have a frikking Squier Stagemaster like you just got! He'd laugh at me, but hell, I liked 24 frets and a Floyd Rose, and 80s shred guitars were gong for peanuts in the early 2000s. I like the cheap stuff; if it looks, plays and sounds good, it IS good!

I DO own a genuine Les Paul just so I can go to the country club, but cheap guitars go with cheap sunglasses!

I actually don't really like Les Pauls...I've worked with them and owned them, but never bonded.

...so it always seems extra goofy when somebody is all:"Ooooh. Look at my Les Paul...I got it for $3,999, but they go for $5,000."

...because, you know, I wouldn't want it at any price.

Except to sell...

Well, when I was learning in the 70s I really liked Page and Blackmore. Well the LP had a more powerul sound because of the humbuckings, so I got my LP in Feb. 1978 for my 20th birthday present to myself. And I have always loved it, but not long after I got into Superstrats because they have humbuckers AND locking trems. I have kind of liked the Superstrats more ever since, I jus like guitars wityh coil taping and tremelo so they're more versatile.

But a Les Paul is still an awesome classic guitar, even though I don't really play it on a daily basis anymore.

I'm putting together an new old-fashioned pedalboard that I can just throw in the car
without having to haul a rack.
Vol. ped. / Whammy / Ch. switch / Wah / Direct Drive / OLD mxr dyna comp /
tc Delay /Mayer od... Quickly running out of room.
Fuck it, I'm just gonna stack shit on the bitch.

Jack Drugless wrote:I'm putting together an new old-fashioned pedalboard that I can just throw in the car
without having to haul a rack.
Vol. ped. / Whammy / Ch. switch / Wah / Direct Drive / OLD mxr dyna comp /
tc Delay /Mayer od... Quickly running out of room.
Fuck it, I'm just gonna stack shit on the bitch.

Bleachers-style pedalboard! Gotta have a flanger/phaser/modulation pedal too!

I NEVER used pedals back in the day... but gas comes in many forms:

top rove of the bleachers (l to r): mxr microflange, Phase 90/Univibe clone, mxr classic distortion (mini toggle flipped)/ mxr dyna comp..

bottom row (l to r): Tony Krank Protype EP2 circuit delay , H2O delay/chorus, Rangemaster Treble Boost clone, shitty wah, Aphex guitar exciter and planet waves tuner..

Just rearranged and rewired mine. Includes a shot of the Nova for Toro.

That Nova System sounds/looks pretty cool. Is it pretty easy to use?

Captain Morgan wrote:That Nova System sounds/looks pretty cool. Is it pretty easy to use?

Not gonna lie...it's got a learning curve and takes some investment of your time to get it really good....but totally worth it in the long run.

I've had mine just under 2 years, gigged with it over 200 times at an average of 3-4 hours of stagetime a night. I've never had a lick of problems with it. Highly recommended. It's an excellent and WAY more affordable alternative to the bulky and overpriced (IMO) G-System.

GC has a used one for $350 right now. Can you just use it like stompboxes?

It looks like you can turnon/off any effect. Can you hit the pedals and turn on flange, phase and then delay separately but stay on all together? LIke you would do stompboxes?

ElToro wrote:GC has a used one for $350 right now. Can you just use it like stompboxes?

It looks like you can turnon/off any effect. Can you hit the pedals and turn on flange, phase and then delay separately but stay on all together? LIke you would do stompboxes?

Yep! That's the beautiful thing about it. It has pedalboard mode to use it like an entire board and it also has preset mode to store your favorite patches for on the fly.

It's got some odd quirks like the tap delay records the tap on toe up instead of toe down and a few other really minor things, but I give it a solid 8/10 for ease of use and performance. Plus it's heavy as hell and super solid construction. If you can get it for $350 do it absolutely.

Note: Check the version number GC has. They've made several upgrades since the first couple of releases to some really pesky bugs. If it IS one of the old ones, you can still download a newer patch and update the version via the MIDI input on the back.

Yikes! I just put the Xciter in the loop! BAM! GOD OF THUNDER!

I've been trying different setups and sizes, here is today's example.

Is that your pedalboard?

I just bought a Sonic Maximizer to a/b with the aural exciter... totally forgot hoe awesome those are.

That's today's pedal board. I put my old CAE rack power supply in a box and
will put smaller pedals on the top row. I thinking about going wider....

It's tough for me not to go all Frank Marino with a pedalboard!

What pedals do you have?

All of them.

C'mon, share the gas...

On this one I'm putting a delay (haven't decided which, probably the t.c.), a volume pedal. a Vox wah, and old script logo
Dyna Comp that I scored a few weeks ago, a Whammy, 1 or 2 Barbers od/dst's, and a Mayer
Mongoose. I might squeeze in one or two others. I din't plan on actually using the shelf
for pedals but they fit up there pretty good.

Nice. I think I'm selling my DynaComp (used 2x) and get an Aphex Punch Factory instead.

Triumph, put that Sonic in your loop!

TriumphTheInsultComicDog wrote:

Captain Morgan wrote:That Nova System sounds/looks pretty cool. Is it pretty easy to use?

Not gonna lie...it's got a learning curve and takes some investment of your time to get it really good....but totally worth it in the long run.

I've had mine just under 2 years, gigged with it over 200 times at an average of 3-4 hours of stagetime a night. I've never had a lick of problems with it. Highly recommended. It's an excellent and WAY more affordable alternative to the bulky and overpriced (IMO) G-System.

Thanks man - I appreciate the input. Been debating on using something like that or using separate pedals again.

It's so convenient looking, it's killing me! I'm just hesitant.

Look at this cool body: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0622127629

Any ideas on where to get a sheet of perforated metal (bb style) to cover a 4x12? I have had no luck locally.

Extruded?

Any metal shop worth a shit should be able to help you.

ElToro wrote:Look at this cool body: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0622127629

You are one sick puppy.

I bid on it, why not?

My wife has a blouse with that pattern on it.