mikeller
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Yeah ozzyrules - helps you find the sweet spot!!!! LOL. Actually acwild nailed it, keep picks in it
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Yeah ozzyrules - helps you find the sweet spot!!!! LOL. Actually acwild nailed it, keep picks in it
Roubster
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Hey Mike I asked this in the thread I started but you probably didnt see it.
So the Riot is off your board for good in favor of the Pinnacle than? I will be getting the Pinnacle at some point and I'm wondering if it is worth it having both Riot and Pinnacle once I do get it on my board.
So the Riot is off your board for good in favor of the Pinnacle than? I will be getting the Pinnacle at some point and I'm wondering if it is worth it having both Riot and Pinnacle once I do get it on my board.
mikeller
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I am sorry, I thought I had replied to the Riot/Pinnacle discussion. It is a close call - both are incredible pedals - I think the Pinnacle is a tad smoother however. I gigged with it twice last weekend. Friday night I had it in the vintage mode. However on Saturday I did not feel it had enough bite so I had to flip the switch to modern, which really just seems to add some highs. Depending what kind of music you play, you may find a need for both. And that depends too on if you are using the gain channel on the Blackstar.
On my board I plan to keep the Pinnacle on. Not sure if I will sell or keep the Riot - aiming towards keeping it, at least for a while. I have a Xotic BB Preamp not on the board - I keep flip-flopping between it and the Blues Pro. I believe the BB will go back on this weekend
Roubster
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Yes you did talk about the difference, but I followed up later when you posted the pic of your board. I was just curious whether you preferred the Pinnacle to the Riot in the end. I think I would also keep both, because I do play different kinds of music which requires a tighter gain and usually for lead I like a chewy fat saggy gain structure such as the Pinnacle. The Blackstar I have is pretty cool, but the gain channel is not really all the versatile. Eventually I will get a different amp...the board I am slowly building is for situations when I go to the rehearsal studios with different amps all the time. This way I can have a relatively consistent tone with my pedals as long as I can plug into a very clean amp with a lot of headroom.
mikeller
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Yeah, for what I do I believe I prefer the Pinnacle at the end of the day.
Your description about tighter gain vs fat saggy gain is pretty well spot on. The thing is with the Pinnacle - switching it to the modern setting gets much closer to the Riot sound, but you can't get the vintage setting on a Riot. And the Pinnacle has the boost button - while it is very minimal, it does boost both volume and gain slightly.
Your description about tighter gain vs fat saggy gain is pretty well spot on. The thing is with the Pinnacle - switching it to the modern setting gets much closer to the Riot sound, but you can't get the vintage setting on a Riot. And the Pinnacle has the boost button - while it is very minimal, it does boost both volume and gain slightly.
Smellybum
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Doesn't come any cheaper than this....
Cable
Ernie Ball Wah (AMAZING)
Sabine Tuner
Custom Made for £10 ABY box
Channel 1 - Marshall DSL
Roto Machine Leslie Sim
Marshall Echohead
Marshall Vibratrem
(Both in fx loop)
Channel 2
Fender Hot rod deluxe
Ibanez TS9
Pignose Detonator (Thanks LUM)
Rocktron Short timer
Digitech Jam Man Solo
Cable
Ernie Ball Wah (AMAZING)
Sabine Tuner
Custom Made for £10 ABY box
Channel 1 - Marshall DSL
Roto Machine Leslie Sim
Marshall Echohead
Marshall Vibratrem
(Both in fx loop)
Channel 2
Fender Hot rod deluxe
Ibanez TS9
Pignose Detonator (Thanks LUM)
Rocktron Short timer
Digitech Jam Man Solo
Roubster
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One way to put together a moderately expensive board is to buy every other pedal and have someone get the others for you as a present hahaha. I just got the Strymon BlueSky Reverberator from couple close people that got it together...which is NOT a cheap at all! I do have to say that it is absolutely fantastic!!!
ozzyrules
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Ok,
So I cut a piece of particle board & glued a 1x2 along the top to give it an "angle". Here's my pedals before the cheezy 80's tolex wrap:
Fits perfectly in a camera case:
Cheezy 80's Tolex:
So I cut a piece of particle board & glued a 1x2 along the top to give it an "angle". Here's my pedals before the cheezy 80's tolex wrap:
Fits perfectly in a camera case:
Cheezy 80's Tolex:
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acwild
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Ok,
So I cut a piece of particle board & glued a 1x2 along the top to give it an "angle". Here's my pedals before the cheezy 80's tolex wrap:
Cool! Which Toneprint are you using in the FB?
ozzyrules
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Just downloaded Morse's. Got Paul Gilbert's on the Corona. Sounds killer. Thanks for all your help,Andrew.
acwild
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Anytime buddy! I need to check out the PG TP for the Corona. All I have is Petrucci's.
banjoplayer
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My pedal board:
It made some fun to work out a diagram
If you don´t know Z.CAT: it´s a manufacturer from Latvia who sold his stuff rather cheap on ebay in the past (these days just fixed prices)
The Clones are built by myself from "Musikding"
Harley Benton Stuff is from Thomann. My latest addition were 2 Power Plants Junior with isolated outputs like the T-Rex Fuel Tank Junior, but for 29,- € each! And it made such a big difference. No noise anymore!
It made some fun to work out a diagram
If you don´t know Z.CAT: it´s a manufacturer from Latvia who sold his stuff rather cheap on ebay in the past (these days just fixed prices)
The Clones are built by myself from "Musikding"
Harley Benton Stuff is from Thomann. My latest addition were 2 Power Plants Junior with isolated outputs like the T-Rex Fuel Tank Junior, but for 29,- € each! And it made such a big difference. No noise anymore!
acwild
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Very cool! A guy that I know is building me a clone with some mods. He has a powder-coater and is going to do a finish kind of like a JP12. All of this is going to be at cost since he's only doing it to justify buying the powder-coater to his wife.
