I'd started looping with Möbius, using a RME Fireface 400. As soon as I introduced the Whammy, I got pretty weird glitches in my loops. Not nice. First, I suspected Möbius. To verify, I used other audio apps, like Audacity, even Vox, and the problem persisted. Section "Crackle during record or playback:" of chapter "24. Hotline - Troubleshooting", p. 41 of the manual: "Check that cables/devices have not been connected in a closed loop. If so, set the system’s clock mode to ‘Master’.") I'm not sure the "closed loop" applies to my situation. However, to my great relieve, by setting "Clock Mode" from "AutoSync" to "Master" the issue went away.
My first and dearest. Replaced the weak front pick-up by a fat one (Seymour Duncan single coil STL-2). Update: Replaced both pick-ups with Kinmans to avoid hum. Love them. Thanks, Bill, for recommending them! Serial No: "L 2 0 0", Model "3 5 4 9"
Since a few years my trusty weapon of choice. Check out Rolf Spuler's guitars and other sorceries... (note to self: String changing procedure).
Wanted a guitar with a whammy bar. This was the best I could afford at the time (80s). Versatile, but a little weak sustain. Serial No: F704270 (Apparently produced 1987 in Japan, at the Factory Fujigen (Fuji Gen Gakki), the 4270th guitar produced that year), I believe it's Model No: RG450BK Update: Replaced the center pick-up with Kinman to avoid hum. Love it.
Monophonic. I love it for single note riffs in conjunction with Compression Sustainer CS-2.
Unfortunately quite noisy. Especially in conjunction with the TS808. Which, at the same time, is its favourite companion.
Overdrive. The first pedal I ever had.
Another great recommendation by Bill. I couldn't describe it better than him: "buttery" and "the secret weapon of many Nashville, Austin and LA studio cats.". Bill recommended to hunt for the "old" pedal, made in the mid 90's. I was lucky to find one second hand in a German shop... Won't give it away, so don't ask! ;)
The newest toy in my stompbox zoo as a replacement for the old clunky Vesta DIG-410 which offers a max. 1 s delay time. The DD-5 has a cleaner sound and max. 2 s delay time.
BUT: The Vesta offers a nicer user interface. It has a hold function that can be activated any time, while the DD-5 has a special HOLD "mode". If you change to any mode on the Boss thingy, you lose what's currently in the delay buffer, which for me, is the foremost reason to press HOLD in the first place! To cover its weakness it supports a tapping input and allows to divide the tapped time into e.g. 3ds etc. I don't work this way. A nice feature is the additional output which allows to create a spreading of successive echos ("ping-pong").
The Vesta also features a modulation section with controls speed and depth. This taught me how chorus and flanger effects are done. It allows to create some atmospheric dynamic detuning, too.
What I dislike about the DD-5 is when you kick it into bypass mode, it continues echoing the old delay buffer content till it dies out. It doesn't stop immediately. The only situation I would like this kind of behaviour would be if I want my last lick to echo out while I continue playing something on top without that being echoed. This in turn is much better achieved by a special wiring of your effect gear...
Generally, the DD-5 reminds me a bit of convenience food: The developers studied what kind of things guitarists do with a digital delay and tried to offer that functionality in a "convenient" way. This makes me feel a bit like they're making up my mind for me.
Still have to learn how to use this beast. Battery operated: I plan to use it with the DL-4 for busking.
Great little loop box. I couldn't believe it when I found out that you can actually have a digital delay working pre-loop in addition to the loop function! I can go busking with a single stompbox! Battery operated.
Forget about the previous paragraph complaining about the DD-5. The Echoplex is what I'd been looking for!
Since the manual doesn't mention how to dump parameters, here's how Matthias Grob explains it.Bought this off eBay and it came without the programmer. Thanks to the people on the pmc10 mailing list I managed to hook the PMC 10 up to the parallel port of the PC.
Love it for its Effects: "PitchCascade" and "ChaosDance". After stuffing it into a suitcase, it suffered, but could be fixed.
Battery operated and ready for busking!.
Transistor amp. I use it with two over-dimensioned no-name speakers. Nice stereo chorus. The built-in distortion produces a rough, edgy sound that, when preceded by the CS-2 and optionally the TS808, becomes a full phat sound. I get sort of close to the sound of Jesse Johnson (The Time, 1990) on "Pandemonium", Track 10 ("Skillet").
An "All-Tube". Very present and characteristic sound.
An "All-Tube". Very characteristic sound. Unfortunately I don't own any of the extra modules. The guy I bought it from exchanged the original setup resulting in a great sounding amp! It's a bitch to lug around though (27.5 kg).
Great. Connecting my dusty 100MB ZIP drive to record some stuff worked well (even though the minimum partition size seems to be 500MB).
