Electro Harmonix Voice Box
I want this pedal. Granted it is similar to the vocal processor that Digitech released a little while ago, but this just seems so much simpler and more fun. I can't exactly quantify "fun" but the fact there are no preset menus or fancy footswitches, just two buttons and six dials, makes this much more accessible.
I'd love to do a few gigs with both to compare how they are for usability in a live setting.
Electro Harmonix 2880 Looper
I've been looking at some looping and harmony effects for a possible solo gig I may be coming into, and I came across the 2880 Stereo Multi-Track Looper (among other things) that just totally blew me away. This unit allows you to loop and mix down tracks on the fly via a foot switch to creat an almost unlimited number of layers when performing live. It features:
- Non-compressed, 44.1 kHz / 16-bit CD quality audio
- Now includes a 1 GB card providing up to 31 minutes per track
- Loop speed change over a 2 octave range
- Reverse playback and over-dub mode
- MIDI Clock Sync as master or slave
- USB port enables backup/restore to/from PC or MAC
- Overdub or punch in/out recording
- Stereo or mono recording
- Familiar transport controls
- Selectable quantize or non-quantize (free running) modes
- Built-in metronome
- Separate stereo mixdown track frees tracks for re-use
- Individual panning per track
- 9LDC-500 power supply included
I don't think you could use half the features in a true live setting, but as an improvisational tool in the studio it would be priceless. The video below explains how it works better than I ever could.
Show us your Muff! (or my muff is better than your muff)
I've been going back lately and listening to a lot of the music I grew up on. We're talking early to mid 90's alt rock grunge type stuff. I always hated the term gruunge. Nirvana were grunge. Apprently so were Pearl Jam, SoundGarden, Alice In Chains, Screaming Trees.... None of those bands sounded anything like the other. But I digress. What has started to appeal to me again is the old muff tones of the day. It's good to see people still getting into the tones, as these two pedals show. I know the EH pedal is the classic muff/fuzz tone, but I really enjoy the Earthquaker Devices Hoof Fuzz. I think the notes cut through just that bit clearer.
I always wanted a Bixsonic Fuzz (I think that was what it was called - the guys from Bush used them). I think they just got re-release. I'm sure I talked about the re-release on here but I can't find it. Guess I'll just pull out my old Tech-21 XXL for a bash.
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More Electro-Harmonix Goodness – Memory Man Stereo
I was going through my YooTube subscriptions and found two new crazy videos from EH. These are for the Menory Man Stereo
This looks like a seriously fun pedal, especially the reverse functions.
Electro-Harmonix Stereo Electric Mistress
What are these guys on? I love companies that don't take themselves too seriously. Electro-Harmonix is one of them. The demonstrate the new Electro-Harmonix Stereo Electric Mistress they have concocted another bizarre video. Check it out.
I need to get me some of them LED rings. They are very cool. The pedal sounds very cool too. I still find it hard to go past my trusty MXR Phase 90 re-issue though.
