10-09-2012, 09:40 PM
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Triple NPD! (boutique dirt content)
Sadly, I have parted ways with with my 1973 Dorado guitar. However, the windfall yielded me with 2 great dirt pedals (and a pedal I ordered happened to arrive today
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10-09-2012, 09:41 PM
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Pics! (I'm a musician, not a photographer
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10-09-2012, 10:12 PM
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Cool stuff man! I really like when people stick the DS-1 with a tubescreamer. They are just such cool, simple pedals, I almost feel like they should come standard with guitar starter packs.
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10-10-2012, 12:32 AM
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Potato Faced Blind Man
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Texas
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the DS-1 TS-9 thing looks awesome. I want one. get us some clips!
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10-10-2012, 01:27 AM
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The Name's Devon! ;)
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Marrietta, Ohio, USA
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I'm in agreement with the DS-1/TS-9 combo pedal being boneriffic. I was dangerously close to drooling while reading the description. All of the extra features seem so fun, while also being useful, which is the key to extra stuff.
I'm definitely jealous! HNPD!
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10-10-2012, 03:34 AM
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That combo pedal.......
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10-10-2012, 10:30 AM
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Cool stuff man.
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10-10-2012, 11:34 PM
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Uploaded (sloppy) demos on my profile. I've got a little bit of an ingrown nail on my left ring finger, so I wasn't playing too great. All demos were done using a Tech 21 Paradriver as the preamp into a Yamaha DI box. My tube combo wasn't working, so we had to go plan B.
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10-10-2012, 11:39 PM
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Isn't good at bass
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Nice! The Char Char sounds like a ton of fun to play with.
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10-10-2012, 11:51 PM
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It's great. I just need to find the sweet spot with the teeth that spin the pot.
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10-11-2012, 12:01 AM
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Is the fuzz analog, or is it all digital?
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10-11-2012, 12:05 AM
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Ka-chow!
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HNPD!
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10-11-2012, 01:04 AM
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All analogue.
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10-11-2012, 12:09 PM
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HTPD.
The Char Char sounds wicked!
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10-11-2012, 05:29 PM
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Even all the synth stuff in that small of a unit? Damn. Nice.
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very nice
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