Blastronaut

I'm 36 man (maybe 37, fuck knows). if there was an old dude down the boozer that would sling me over his mobility scooter and drop me off somewhere close to my house for £20 I'd be all for that if it beat the taxi queue. There's a right good business plan there that would add a new layer to the usual "I woke up at home, so I surely didn't embarrass myself too much".

You could've ran a pavement bound late night taxi service man. Round up a few alcoholic pensioners to hover around boozers and listen for folk shouting "fucking 40 minutes wait for a taxi!" then step in with a solution.

Aye I think that's what folk usually take it to mean, but it's thrown about so much it's pretty much meaningless, especially here. Clipping diodes literally chop off the peaks of the waveform. Asymmetric just means it clips one side of the wave less than the other. Trying describe something like that as transparent is poor form. @Monkeys Fist this is me after sleeping on it to try and calm down.

Right fuck it I've been holding this in since last night but can't let it slide. Hate seeing the word "transparent" used to describe guitar effects at the best of times but on a fucking overdrive pedal? Unforgivable. Could've said Mode 3 gives a bit more clarity over mode 1, I'd have let that slide. But if its transparent, what fucking use is it? Thats EQD off my "good guys" lists. Dicks.

If you crank the gain/drive knob it's probably firmly in TS territory. Back off the gain and use it as boost and its bordering on the Klon/TS hybrid everyone's always wanted but never bothered to ask for. No idea how boss went about emulating the extra headroom from the charge pump for the digital patch, but I'll trust they haven't just half-arsed it. Out of curiosity, is there a Klon patch on this thing?

I used to really like playing about mic placement on vst plugins like Guitar Rig. Always found it near impossible to physically mic up a speaker you're in the same room as and get a feel for how different mic placements change things when you're not isolated from the source. Was a great "oh fuck right, that's how it works, I get it now" kinda moment. Shame it didn't help me with the original issue but probably only because im a dozy cunt. As an aside, the Plumes is a pretty interesting take on the TS. Having all the clean boost headroom of the Klon in a Tubescreamer is a great idea. I forget what the other tweaks were, I think the mid-hump was a centered around a slightly lower frequency but I'm sure the others were less trivial.

I'll probably give that a watch tbh. Love both Zappa and the Bill and Ted films, but for now I'm away to bed trying to remember whether Alex Winter was Bill or Ted. I'll probably end up separated or divorced tomorrow after muttering "Esquire" and "Theodore" in my sleep.

Pretty sure my missus put on The Watcher last night. Passed me by entirely, looked like some generic haunted house pish from what little of it I caught.

Im not even all that interested in guitars half of the time tbh.

I made my brother-in-law a Celtic themed Rangemaster (the "quadruple treble" boost) as a gift not that long ago, somecunt saw it and asked if it could go further than 9.

You've lost me man. Best wishes to the bride and groom and all that obviously, but did the good round (of golf) come before or after the session?

> Played probably my worst round yesterday in a competition before my mates wedding....and then one of my best today. Assuming this wedding happened inbetween rounds I'd be inclined to guess you're are bit like me and move more naturally when yer either mildly hungover or still completely pissed from the night before.. But I know fuck all about golf.

I'm not familiar with Getty. Was he a referee or something?

If the buffered bypass experiment fails, take everything else out the equation and run just the Caverns (ideally with short cable runs). If it still noticably boosts volume when engaged it's likely an issue with your Caverns rather than a chain problem. You could fuck around with the internal "trails" dip switches that but they're quite fragile and would probably just confuse the issue. "Trails" mode seems to be referred to as "buffered bypass mode" in the marketing for this pedal but I don't really buy that. I'd bet my mortgage both modes are essentially true-bypass. Buffered bypass would need a fuckton of extra components for both the reverb and delay sides. "Trails" is just a clever wiring trick.

Scratch the bit about the internal control, I've just found a photo of the Caverns internals and don't see one unfortunately. Hopefully a buffer sorts out the issue. @Andrew

If you've got any pedals that are buffered bypass (like a TU-2 or basically any boss pedals) try sticking that before the Caverns, leave it plugged in but off to see if that makes a difference. Plan B: If I'm right that the delay side of the Caverns is the same as the Magnetic Echo, it should have an internal input level control you can adjust with a small screwdriver. Will look a bit like this and should be labelled "104".

Dont tell anyone I said this but I'm not sure the difference is really any greater, I think people are only aware of it more since there's more of an expectation for modulation to be more clean and precise than there is with overdrive, fuzz and distortion. My take on the digital/analogue debate: if Tom, Gemmill, Andrew and me all buy a JCM800 and Tom and Andrew don't like theirs, there's a massive chance theirs just sound radically different from mines and Gemmill's. If we all bought a Helix and I'm the only fucker that didn't like it, mines is either faulty or I'm just too thick to work out how to use it. Digital wipes out 95% of the unpredictability of of fully analogue gear. Tom's Helix will sound pretty much identical to Gemmill's and every other Helix. Your Rangemasters and Steel Stringers much less so.

From what I gather the Caverns is just Keeley's mag echo and his tri-verb in the same box. Not meaning to shit on it, I love the Magnetic Echo but it is quirky and a bit limited. Still the best pt2399 based delay I've ever played around with though.

Forgive my tinfoil hat, but the last 5 years of Tory politics seems seems like an exercise in limiting the spectrum of debate. Truss is inexplicably pulling off the impossible by making Boris look relatively competent, and the opposition is a Guy who has prurged most of the socialist Labour party members. Best hope is that Starmers game plan is just an unelaborate ruse to lull back in the the working class gammons that were conned into voting against their own interests.

Looks a sound choice man, definitely a massive upgrade. I'd probably do the same but I'm pretty sure me and Johnnie Walker would have regular fallouts with the stomp.

Largely agree with @Gemmill but I'm still torn between the logical side of my brain saying "this is undoubtedly lightyears better tech and a massive sonic upgrade" and the practical side thats screaming "I really don't fancy trying to dial in something in on that on the fly after I've had a few".

@Tom If by "on the way out" you mean it's faulty feel free to give me a shout, probably an easy repair. If you've just fallen out with it it might be time to go digital. Caverns was based on the Mag Echo echo circuit so it's a primitive bucket brigade device (pt2399) at its core. It's a cool chip to play around with but its biggest limitation is that the quality of the repeats starts to degrade (quite severely) at longer delay times. Next step up from the pt2399 is Belton Brick based delays and reverbs, but a Belton Brick is essentially just several PT2399 chips rolled into one oversized box. All that stuff has a sort of faux-analogue warmth that I really quite like at shorter delay times but fall apart a fair bit at longer delay times. I dunno exactly what to recommend. Looking at the caverns it's probably the most feature-rich of delays built on that tech (barring maybe tap-tempo? You can also get that with bucket brigade chips) I guess if you liked the sound/feel and found it easy to dial in you could stick with that technology but honestly you'll get longer delay times and cleaner repeats going digital. That said, I keep that side of my board really stripped back because and as simple as possible because I'm an idiot that can barely navigate the Deluxe Memory Man menus sober, never mind after a drink. I'm content with either a Carbon Copy or a simple 3-knob pt2399 based delay.

I rate a lot of these wee pedal sized amp "heads" fwiw. Haven't used this one but stuff like the EHX Magnum '44 are handy bits of gear to have around, and there's hundreds of similar stuff that's really feasible as beginner pedal building projects that all run off car radio power amp chips (albeit lower output and DC powered). I'm genuinely curious how it sounds, let us know how it works out man. On paper it looks overkill for two guys jamming in a room but for the price I totally get it. Really interested to know how it takes pedals/preamps.

My older cousin's man is the same (dunno about the lycra and bumming but wouldn't be massively surprised). Worked for him briefly years ago, before I really understood the link between stress triggering seizures and still feel like I massively let him down on a few occasions by not noticing the early signs on some really hectic days where he ended up unconscious and on his own. Glad you're well though man. Hope I'm not out of line asking if it bothers you that folk check in on you more than usual because they're worried about your epilepsy?

I'm not having any of this. Cardiacs "Dog-like Sparky" takes the crown here.