GuitarIV
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So since my birthday is on the 21st of December and it's Christmas I treated myself to some new pedals:
I already had the PolyTune2 Mini, got myself the TC Electronics Corona Chorus and the KHDK Ghoul Jr.
Why the mini pedals? Because this is what my board looked like till now:
Sounds great, does what it's supposed to do, but man what a pain in the ass to lug it around to rehearsal every week along with my guitar and backpack, so since I was so impressed by the sound of the Wampler Mini Ego despite its tiny package I decided I might just as well replace the full sized pedals with smaller ones and have a lighter and more compact board:
Unfortunately I can't crank the amp today anymore but everything works. From the short impression I got though I really like the Ghoul Jr., I'm not so much impressed with the Corona.
The Ghoul Jr. is built by a company that was founded by Kirk Hammett of Metallica (hence the KH in the KHDK) and man is it versatile for a small little pedal. You have your normal Tone, Volume and Gain controls with additional two 3 way miniswitches that change the voicing, amount of gain, bass response etc.
Now I love my Boss SD-1, it's my favourite OD pedal for the asymmetrical clipping and hence aggressive voicing, but it's veeery noisy. The Ghoul Jr. is a lot quieter even when set to the most agressive voicings, it tightens the amp up very well and I had to set the gain on zero cause it saturates a lot by itself. For tightening up a crunching amp for metal it works very well. I can finally remove my Noisegate from the board. It's a lot quieter than the SD-1 too!
I will see what it sounds like through a clean channel by itself tomorrow and also how well it works with my 2203.
The Corona chorus on the other hand sounds bad compared to my Boss. I don't know what it is about the Boss one but I love the sound of it, both on clean and distorted tones. Very lush. The Corona is a bit too bright and... boring sounding? I dunno.
Now this is just my first impression. The thing has the TonePrint feature, you can connect it to your PC and tweak the sound of it in a programm TC Electronics provides. So that's what I'll do next. Hopefully I can coax some tones out that are more suited to my taste
Anyway guys, I'll keep you posted with more impressions, I have rehearsal this friday so I'll see how this setup holds up with the band and if the reduced weight and size make it a bit easier to lug around.
Have a Merry Christmas and cheers!
I already had the PolyTune2 Mini, got myself the TC Electronics Corona Chorus and the KHDK Ghoul Jr.
Why the mini pedals? Because this is what my board looked like till now:
Sounds great, does what it's supposed to do, but man what a pain in the ass to lug it around to rehearsal every week along with my guitar and backpack, so since I was so impressed by the sound of the Wampler Mini Ego despite its tiny package I decided I might just as well replace the full sized pedals with smaller ones and have a lighter and more compact board:
Unfortunately I can't crank the amp today anymore but everything works. From the short impression I got though I really like the Ghoul Jr., I'm not so much impressed with the Corona.
The Ghoul Jr. is built by a company that was founded by Kirk Hammett of Metallica (hence the KH in the KHDK) and man is it versatile for a small little pedal. You have your normal Tone, Volume and Gain controls with additional two 3 way miniswitches that change the voicing, amount of gain, bass response etc.
Now I love my Boss SD-1, it's my favourite OD pedal for the asymmetrical clipping and hence aggressive voicing, but it's veeery noisy. The Ghoul Jr. is a lot quieter even when set to the most agressive voicings, it tightens the amp up very well and I had to set the gain on zero cause it saturates a lot by itself. For tightening up a crunching amp for metal it works very well. I can finally remove my Noisegate from the board. It's a lot quieter than the SD-1 too!
I will see what it sounds like through a clean channel by itself tomorrow and also how well it works with my 2203.
The Corona chorus on the other hand sounds bad compared to my Boss. I don't know what it is about the Boss one but I love the sound of it, both on clean and distorted tones. Very lush. The Corona is a bit too bright and... boring sounding? I dunno.
Now this is just my first impression. The thing has the TonePrint feature, you can connect it to your PC and tweak the sound of it in a programm TC Electronics provides. So that's what I'll do next. Hopefully I can coax some tones out that are more suited to my taste
Anyway guys, I'll keep you posted with more impressions, I have rehearsal this friday so I'll see how this setup holds up with the band and if the reduced weight and size make it a bit easier to lug around.
Have a Merry Christmas and cheers!