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Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Mr.Huge on January 22, 2004, 01:57:46 PM
Here are some pedal highlights from the 2004 winter NAMM show here in Los Angeles.
Check out the Guyatone tremolo with digital LFO (same with the filter).
-Jeorge
http://www.wayhuge.com/namm04.html
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: jimbob on January 22, 2004, 02:07:31 PM
thanks for the pics...very cool
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Peter Snowberg on January 22, 2004, 02:07:48 PM
Cool stuff Jeorge! Thanks for posting it! 8) :D

Funny how this world works... I started work on my digital LFO last week.

take care,
-Peter
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: gez on January 22, 2004, 02:17:10 PM
That Guyatone stuff looks interesting, especially the ultron!
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: mattv on January 22, 2004, 02:20:11 PM
:shock:
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Rodgre on January 22, 2004, 02:27:54 PM
I feel like I have waited my whole life for a Tremolo like that Chopshop.
(http://www.wayhuge.com/guytrem.jpg)
My whole life..... now what do I have to live for?

Roger
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: gez on January 22, 2004, 02:29:53 PM
Quote from: RodgreI feel like I have waited my whole life for a Tremolo like that Chopshop.

My whole life..... now what do I have to live for?

Mark II? :wink:
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: RDV on January 22, 2004, 02:34:02 PM
Quote from: Rodgre...now what do I have to live for?
I don't know about you, but I live for my monthly nookie! :wink:  Tremelo, I've got!

Regards

RDV
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Mr.Huge on January 22, 2004, 02:42:49 PM
Word is the Guyatone trem and filter will cost in the neighborhood of $400.00 smackers!
The Moog pedal was some sort of filter like a seek wah.
-J
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: moosapotamus on January 22, 2004, 02:49:37 PM
What's the Moogerfooger Murf do?

Those Guyatone pedals look soooo cooooool!

Why must companies like Ibanez wave something like the Flying Pan under our noses without having the common decency to offer a reissue??? Whazzup wit dat, huh???

Cool pics, Jeorge.

Thanks!
~ Charlie
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Steve C on January 22, 2004, 03:57:45 PM
So I take it from the date 1980 over the Tubescreamer, that this is when they were released?

The Guyatone pedals look great, but I'm very curious about that Moogerfooger.
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Chris R on January 22, 2004, 04:10:47 PM
wow.. who needs stage lights with all those LEDs ;p

C
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Mr.Huge on January 22, 2004, 07:01:17 PM
Added some scans!
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: aron on January 22, 2004, 07:03:10 PM
YESSSS!!!!!

TWO BIG MUFFS CASCADED!!!!!!!!!!!  :twisted:  :twisted:
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: jimbob on January 22, 2004, 07:04:21 PM
wonder what the zakk pedal sounds like? hmmm
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Mr.Huge on January 22, 2004, 07:12:24 PM
I believe the ZW-44 pedal is based on a Boss SD1.
Title: Am I projecting here?
Post by: ErikMiller on January 22, 2004, 07:22:32 PM
Mr. Huge, are you feeling the pull of simple analog stompboxes?
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: 12afael on January 22, 2004, 07:37:49 PM
a friend play for roland/boss on namm  he fly from chile to namm .
he is a amp diyer .
I hope talk with him soon for news
Title: Re: Am I projecting here?
Post by: Mr.Huge on January 22, 2004, 07:46:56 PM
Quote from: ErikMillerMr. Huge, are you feeling the pull of simple analog stompboxes?
No, I just love pedals!
Some of them there pedals are digital too!

Oh yeah, I all most forgot. It seems that the new Maxon AD999 is using 6 MN3208 to get the 800mS (yeah right) of pure BBD analog delay! They wouldn't let me look inside... Bummer!
Also, the new MXR chorus is analog and is not a reissue, it's a new design.
I heard that a company in China is making some of the smaller BBD's like the 3207, 3208. I don't remember what the prefix was... BA?
Cheers,
-Jeorge
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: jrc4558 on January 22, 2004, 11:40:12 PM
BTW
I had a chance to play these Wasabi pedals, a drive, a distortion and a delay. Honestly - nothing spectacular. Typical sounds, low price, flashy boxes.
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: jimbob on January 22, 2004, 11:46:24 PM
Not suprised there- about the wasabis. Maybe an upper scale danelectro? both from Evets Corp. Hmmm..
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Ed Rembold on January 22, 2004, 11:57:26 PM
Some of us are already past 1 second, of pure analog bliss-
I have 3 new echoczar samples up ( more coming )
toneczareffects.com

Thanks, Ed R.
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Ed Rembold on January 22, 2004, 11:59:01 PM
sorry, double post!
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Peter Snowberg on January 23, 2004, 12:01:50 AM
Hey!  :shock: Are those eye tubes on the Electro-Harmonix NY-2A??? Maybe 6E1P?

-Peter
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: drew on January 23, 2004, 12:25:00 AM
I heard the EH compressor was gonna be wicked expensive... 2k? Weird that they are pushing into the "pro audio" side of things instead of the stompbox world, but hey, why not. I love companies that have the balls to do something new.

Not that a stereo rackmount compressor is totally new, but you know what I mean...


drew
www.toothpastefordinner.com
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: puretube on January 23, 2004, 01:31:16 AM
Quote from: Peter SnowbergHey!  :shock: Are those eye tubes on the Electro-Harmonix NY-2A??? Maybe 6E1P?

-Peter

Yes! (dunno which type, though...)

Anthonie (didn`t design this one...)
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Rodgre on January 23, 2004, 03:32:45 AM
Aw yeah..... They're reissuing the Pulsar.... or is it a new circuit? I wonder.

Why am I so jazzed about Tremolo? Could it be that I run a studio called Tremolo Lounge?

Hmmm?

Roger
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: puretube on January 23, 2004, 03:43:06 AM
new one....

based on a little thing I don`t have a picture of, just the design-layout/drill-template of the prototype I made...

http://www.puretube.com/PULSAR.jpg
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Mark Hammer on January 23, 2004, 01:57:44 PM
Actually Aron, it's two Muff Fuzzes cascaded.  I actually played through one of those in 1973, sticking one of the little boxes (these are the little palm-sized units) into another.  Yeessh!!  We were playing in a school gym, and the feedback was so bad with that sucker kids must have had it coming out of their lockers 2 weeks later.

E-H is definitely moving in a higher-end direction from the looks of it.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the rackmount envelope-controlled filter is the consulting or even design handiwork of Mike Beigel.  He retweaked the Mutron for them as Q-Tron.  Now is as good a time as any for the big Mutron Envelope Controlled Filter (and I mean bigger than a Biphase) that never made it past prototype, and the Beigel rackmount unit that sold a limited number of units before disappearing, to re-emerge in a fully-fledged form.  This sure looks like it has.  Now I'm wondering if they'd ever re-release the big rackmount guitar synth.

Ibanez's "re-issue" of TS-808 is souring me big time.  Talk about a money grab.  $240 for what?  For a few 5-cent component changes to an existing board?  Is that a $150 paint job and a $20 switch?  I'm not impressed.  Not at all.

The Guyatone stuff  is smart, very smart, I mean smart enough to send other companies scrambling.  In an era when we are so accustomed to Zoom pedals that give you tons of effects with one parameter to vary, what a delight to have someone milk a single kind of effect for everything its worth and take tweakability out to the stratosphere.  I think I'm gonna like this year of gear.

Thanks Jorge.
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on January 23, 2004, 02:13:56 PM
240 bucks for a TS-808 seems over-the-top though. :?
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: puretube on January 23, 2004, 04:48:47 PM
Mark: of course You´re right:  the Bi-Filter is an all-new Beigel-thing with co-operation of John Pisani (E-H-engineer who did the "Holy Grail")...
Title: 2 muffs cascaded?????
Post by: uncle boko on January 24, 2004, 07:36:35 AM
2 muffs cascaded.................bloody stupid if you ask me - it'll probably bring the company down - is this a measure of the younger generation's obsession with fuzz boxes to mask their abysmal playing?????????
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Jered on January 24, 2004, 08:47:04 AM
Hi Ed Rembold,
        I've been wondering when you were going to finally post your site. All ready to go I take it.
 If you guys haven't checked Ed's pedals out yet, please do, absolutely top of the line.
http://www.toneczareffects.com
 Jered
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: puretube on January 30, 2004, 03:14:06 PM
oops, web acting strangely, today
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: puretube on January 30, 2004, 03:17:31 PM
slow, but though...
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: puretube on January 30, 2004, 03:22:36 PM
http://namm.harmony-central.com/WNAMM04/Content/EH/PR/Pulsar.html
Title: Re: 2 muffs cascaded?????
Post by: aron on January 30, 2004, 03:37:23 PM
Quote from: uncle boko2 muffs cascaded.................bloody stupid if you ask me - it'll probably bring the company down - is this a measure of the younger generation's obsession with fuzz boxes to mask their abysmal playing?????????

Uncle,

I think it's a great idea! The more distortion the better!

Actually you can cascade or parallel. I don't know, I like it.

But I am equally sure I did this long ago! YES, my abysmal playing needs it! :-)
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on January 30, 2004, 04:50:28 PM
Wait 'till you hear me play! :mrgreen: Been playing for three years now but never had a guitar lesson in my life because my parents won't pay them...

The only thing I learnt in those three years is a couple of licks, chords, but most of all that if you want to be cool instantly, you shouldn't try to do music. It takes time to be cool at music 8) I'm cool 'cause I have many many gadgets but my playing isn't that great :lol:
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Bucksears on January 30, 2004, 04:52:30 PM
It might actually be kinda cool to rig another footswitch in the Double Muff and swtich between the single/double fuzz that way.
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: Rory on January 30, 2004, 09:05:13 PM
Hells yes!  Two big muffs!  In one box!  Hey wait, I could do this myself...  wait a second... Thanks for the link, I love this time of year!  ! and ! and !
Title: NAMM show 2004
Post by: jimbob on January 31, 2004, 03:24:44 PM
Is the reissue ts-808 an exact replica of the old one where there using jus the name? Or is it an overpriced real deal?