Roubster
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So I have a lot of things on my mind recently, and felt like I need to vent and share with you guys. Definitely related to EBMM and some of it a tiny bit OT. I'll start with the EBMM related stuff.
So I walked into my local GC yesterday, and wanted to try out the new TC Electronics Corona Chorus since I've seen the demo and promo videos...of course JP being one of them and Steve Morse also had used it briefly as I remember. I've been looking to get one for some time to slowly build my pedal board for my Blackstar HT20. Anyway, it is a fantastic chorus pedal. Very versatile and tones of usable organic tones on both clean and distortion. The chorus is one of my favourite effects to us on top of delay and reverb. The only thing right now that is holding me off from buyinh one, is that I hear Suhr is going to be coming out with a chorus possibly this year. I will return to this subject shortly.
Now that I played the heck out of that pedal, I of course decided to go to the EBMM pillar they have there. Now this GC is in NYC, so they made sure to stock a lot of EBMMs which is awesome for me. They have about 6 AL HH axes now plus two of the specials with MM90s...not sure how they are still there, but I saw a guy pull down the gold one and seemed to like it...but I think he was a lefty as he was holding it upside down hehe. Anyway, I walked around the pillar and saw a JPXI! First of all, I absolutely love the color! It is somewhere between Crystal Magic, Sapphire Black and Black Sparkle...but towards the black side of a shade. I decided to plug it in and see how the new radius and SS frets felt. Basically it is AWESOME!!! The stainless steel frets I absolutely love and whenever I need a refret at some point on my Y2D that is the direction I will go. The whole guitar just felt really tight and resonant, full and fat sounding with a lot of clarity and definition. Really really good for what it is meant for. I personally wish it had the 5 way though like the JPX. Now the radius was actually really nice. I was not sure what to expect, but it was really comfortable and really easy for legato runs and string skipping. Barr chords were a little tougher than on a 10 or 12 radius, but that's only because that is what I have been playing for years now. The neck profile actually felt very nice and really did not feel all that thin to me. So anyway, great guitar and I think I would like one somewhere down the line.
Now back to where I left off earlier with the potential Suhr chorus pedal. I just got my early B-day present on Tuesday which is the Suhr Riot distortion pedal. This is a really really good little box with a lot of thought put into it. Those guys really do some amazing work all the way around. It provides plenty of gain and does sound very natural on a clean channel and reacts like a tube amp distortion. I will go as far as to say that is actually sounds better than my lead channel coming from the Blackstar, which on its own is fantastic. But again, I got this so I can have variation. The 3 voicing switch is really cool, and all 3 positions have completely different tones to offer. Every move of the tone knob and gain and volume give you so many different options. Rolling off the volume on the Y2D cleaned up the tone nicely. It does not have that harshness as other pedals and sounds huge and fat. Now I really want the Shiba Drive and the koko boost as well for more versatility. I am a fan of Johns work and would love to get one of those amps down the line as well.
Now comes the confession part, which is also related to all of this. As some of you may know already, I sold off my Carbon Blue Silo Special to a fellow forumite Sal (Music Man
). This came as a surprise to me as well, but I wanted to come clean and hope that you guys wont hate me haha. I absolutely love Silo Specials, and have been praising them for a long time, but always struggled with something. I know its very vague, as I cant pin point it myself. I still love the guitar and really wish I could keep it, but unfortunately I cannot. I dont have the means to have more than 2 guitars. So basically I feel like a traitor, as I found what I am looking for in a Suhr Pro S3. Overall it fits ME better. I will not say that it is a better guitar than the Silo Special, because the quality and playability on both is absolutely top notch. I hope this is okay to mention another company...I know that BP has respect for John, as they are doing something right including CS and they have a huge passion for the instruments and the quality they put into them. I do have to suffer for my betrayal and wait about 7 months till I get the guitar haha.
So there you go! Wanted to get all that off my mind and share my experiences with a few different things I have been dealing with the past few days. Feel free to chime in on whatever topics above. I think I covered a good amount of stuff, and I apologize if this seems like a long rant.
And by the way, I LOVE my EBMM Y2D more and more! I was having such a blast with the Riot yesterday. The other cool thing is that it sort of matches the purple in the purple sunset hehe.
So I walked into my local GC yesterday, and wanted to try out the new TC Electronics Corona Chorus since I've seen the demo and promo videos...of course JP being one of them and Steve Morse also had used it briefly as I remember. I've been looking to get one for some time to slowly build my pedal board for my Blackstar HT20. Anyway, it is a fantastic chorus pedal. Very versatile and tones of usable organic tones on both clean and distortion. The chorus is one of my favourite effects to us on top of delay and reverb. The only thing right now that is holding me off from buyinh one, is that I hear Suhr is going to be coming out with a chorus possibly this year. I will return to this subject shortly.
Now that I played the heck out of that pedal, I of course decided to go to the EBMM pillar they have there. Now this GC is in NYC, so they made sure to stock a lot of EBMMs which is awesome for me. They have about 6 AL HH axes now plus two of the specials with MM90s...not sure how they are still there, but I saw a guy pull down the gold one and seemed to like it...but I think he was a lefty as he was holding it upside down hehe. Anyway, I walked around the pillar and saw a JPXI! First of all, I absolutely love the color! It is somewhere between Crystal Magic, Sapphire Black and Black Sparkle...but towards the black side of a shade. I decided to plug it in and see how the new radius and SS frets felt. Basically it is AWESOME!!! The stainless steel frets I absolutely love and whenever I need a refret at some point on my Y2D that is the direction I will go. The whole guitar just felt really tight and resonant, full and fat sounding with a lot of clarity and definition. Really really good for what it is meant for. I personally wish it had the 5 way though like the JPX. Now the radius was actually really nice. I was not sure what to expect, but it was really comfortable and really easy for legato runs and string skipping. Barr chords were a little tougher than on a 10 or 12 radius, but that's only because that is what I have been playing for years now. The neck profile actually felt very nice and really did not feel all that thin to me. So anyway, great guitar and I think I would like one somewhere down the line.
Now back to where I left off earlier with the potential Suhr chorus pedal. I just got my early B-day present on Tuesday which is the Suhr Riot distortion pedal. This is a really really good little box with a lot of thought put into it. Those guys really do some amazing work all the way around. It provides plenty of gain and does sound very natural on a clean channel and reacts like a tube amp distortion. I will go as far as to say that is actually sounds better than my lead channel coming from the Blackstar, which on its own is fantastic. But again, I got this so I can have variation. The 3 voicing switch is really cool, and all 3 positions have completely different tones to offer. Every move of the tone knob and gain and volume give you so many different options. Rolling off the volume on the Y2D cleaned up the tone nicely. It does not have that harshness as other pedals and sounds huge and fat. Now I really want the Shiba Drive and the koko boost as well for more versatility. I am a fan of Johns work and would love to get one of those amps down the line as well.
Now comes the confession part, which is also related to all of this. As some of you may know already, I sold off my Carbon Blue Silo Special to a fellow forumite Sal (Music Man
). This came as a surprise to me as well, but I wanted to come clean and hope that you guys wont hate me haha. I absolutely love Silo Specials, and have been praising them for a long time, but always struggled with something. I know its very vague, as I cant pin point it myself. I still love the guitar and really wish I could keep it, but unfortunately I cannot. I dont have the means to have more than 2 guitars. So basically I feel like a traitor, as I found what I am looking for in a Suhr Pro S3. Overall it fits ME better. I will not say that it is a better guitar than the Silo Special, because the quality and playability on both is absolutely top notch. I hope this is okay to mention another company...I know that BP has respect for John, as they are doing something right including CS and they have a huge passion for the instruments and the quality they put into them. I do have to suffer for my betrayal and wait about 7 months till I get the guitar haha. So there you go! Wanted to get all that off my mind and share my experiences with a few different things I have been dealing with the past few days. Feel free to chime in on whatever topics above. I think I covered a good amount of stuff, and I apologize if this seems like a long rant.
And by the way, I LOVE my EBMM Y2D more and more! I was having such a blast with the Riot yesterday. The other cool thing is that it sort of matches the purple in the purple sunset
hehe.
