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if you're into old broken pedals.

CaptainSalam...	Date: May 16, 2009 @ 5:18 AM we just posted a new song called Bondage which has a middle section with our bassists old heavily trampled and fried boss heavy metal distortion pedal.
evansorchid	Date: May 16, 2009 @ 7:49 AM Maybe it's just me, but I prefer pedals that work.
zedsalt	Date: May 16, 2009 @ 10:10 AM Oh, but sometimes they don't work in the most delightful ways! My Tubeworks Tube Driver doesn't sound near as cool since I had to "fix" it. It went for years with a fantastic "broken" sound before it finally quit altogether. Don't get me wrong; I like the way it sounds now, but it was better before. I accidently kicked my Electric Mistress pedal once while I was playing, and it made this incredible cascading filter sound. I liked the sound so much that I started writing material just to take advantage of what I knew would have to be a temporary method. I would play a guitar solo, keyboard line, whatever, then fly the track through the Mistress, whacking the side of the box in time with the rhythm. Have you ever suddenly started getting a great tone out of a pedal, then realized that what you were hearing was the result of a dying battery? A gent right here in Happy Hoosierland sells a pedal called the Starve, which allows you to step down the battery power in your pedals so you can find those sweet spots and reproduce them in a consistent manner over the long term.
Snoogans775	Date: May 17, 2009 @ 12:50 PM the battery deal works fantastically on the boss ds-1. The Starve sounds really cool, but might be useless with digital. Right now, I've been experimenting a lot with broken speakers, I have a custom made Ampeg 15" going through a fizzly polytone pre/poweramp that I've been toying with. Soon I'm gonna start supergluing foam to the front of the speaker, maybe some staples too!

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