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Post by aliensporebomb on Dec 27, 2012 9:54:01 GMT -5
Normally I rarely get any kind of Christmas gift relating to music unless I beg and squeal. This year was different.
I ended up getting a Voodoo Lab Giggity. Interesting but very subtle pedal.
I did try the "fuzz face into the giggity into the amp" for a fake Eric Johnson type sound. It was the virtual fuzz face in the VG-99 but it did actually work believe it or not.
Knuckleheads might think the pedal useless - it lets you massage your tone in a very fine grained type of way:
Distorted you could do something like "I like the overall sound but want less overall upper mids and some more air in things" and you can do it. It lets you refine an existing tone even more than you normally could. You could also compensate for a thin sounding guitar by fattening it up.
If you're fingerpicking using a clean tone you can use it to emphasize the upper frequencies if you're on a neck pickup for a warmth with clarity effect.
It's kind of a strange mix between a compressor, very guitar oriented equalizer and booster in one pedal. It also seems to be subtractive as well as additive: if your guitar does something you don't like you can de-emphasize that and push the thing you want it to do.
There are numerous videos on the web but if you want audio examples I could do some.
Another cool thing: you can run a digital FX processor into it and then into your amp and it warms it up and gives it a kind of vibey faux tube sound.
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Post by Infinite Ego on Dec 27, 2012 10:08:23 GMT -5
Cool. I thought that pedal was a good idea.
I doubt I'll be getting any guitar stuff for years to come. Paying for college tuition for two kids for the next 8 years.
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Post by bear on Dec 27, 2012 12:46:40 GMT -5
Giggity has had my eye for a while. The shaper/sculptor concept makes total sense to me, but I wonder how useful it would be for being performance switchable or whether it's one of those always-on devices.
I got the MXR Badass duo, the Modified Overdrive and '78 Distortion:
The OD surprised me since I didn't expect much and it rocked pretty well, but I have been off ODs for a while so it may just sound novel to me. Still seemed more natural than my old TS-5 that I got out to compare. A bit dirty for an overdrive but not much of the slime coating sound that the classic Ibanez stuff can demonstrate. The 100 Hz control is useful for keeping some bass impact and the tone control isn't very shrill when open, a welcome change. I could see myself using this a lot and I have little interest in "Texas blues" sounds these days. The one weird thing is that the drive settings don't get much more distorted after 2 o'clock. Pretty good as a moderate distortion pedal.
The '78 I'll probably find a place for, but it's not overwhelming me yet. It's supposed to be a pretty verbatim copy of a Keeley modded DS-1. The sound has a lot of gritty treble distortion a bit in the realm of the lead channel of a JCM-800, but not as good or as full -- think caricature. The "crunch" button switches the diode type from Si to LED's, kind of like normal Rat to Turbo Rat diode switching. Not a radical difference really, but a some difference especially in being a bit more touch sensitive. It does clean up to touch and the volume knob pretty well. I'll find a place for it but it probably needs to be paired with the right base tone. Maybe with something blackface Fender sounding? I'll have to try it with Rhythm 1 on my Quad when I get a chance.
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Post by aliensporebomb on Dec 27, 2012 14:31:33 GMT -5
Cool. I thought that pedal was a good idea. I doubt I'll be getting any guitar stuff for years to come. Paying for college tuition for two kids for the next 8 years. I can relate - my oldest brother in law has two daughters and a son and the older daughter and the son are already in college and a third is about to join them next year as it's her last year of high school. Delightful kids. What's not delightful is paying for 3 college educations. But they're smart kids and mostly on scholarships so..... |
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Post by aliensporebomb on Dec 27, 2012 15:52:53 GMT -5
Giggity has had my eye for a while. The shaper/sculptor concept makes total sense to me, but I wonder how useful it would be for being performance switchable or whether it's one of those always-on devices. Edited for brevity: It has a footswitch. I'm still too new to figure out if I could use it as a "in song timbre change" or "in song boost" or both. The MXR boost sounds like the pedal to get from your description. Might be interesting to combine the two somehow.. |
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Post by bear on Dec 27, 2012 17:14:14 GMT -5
The MXR boost sounds like the pedal to get from your description. Might be interesting to combine the two somehow.. I'll have to explore lower gain settings to see if it's also happening there, but I usually prefer a simple jfet or mosfet booster for cleanish boosting. The thing I never got about the Klon thing as typically professed at TGP is that it makes no sense to use a pedal with clippers as a transparent boost. I've seen some Kloners say that copies can actually produce a very nice low gain distortion for shoe gazing and similar purposes. I think my use of the OD was probably in a similar zone. Next time I get a good opportunity to play with the OD I'm going to see how its midrange-rich distortion goes with my Rat with some low-gain jangly settings I use on it. |
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Post by chrissh on Dec 27, 2012 18:04:11 GMT -5
I was given a baglamas, a tiny, three course bouzouki (sort of like a Greek mandolin). It sounds really good and is surprisingly loud.
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Post by mirth on Dec 27, 2012 21:47:58 GMT -5
My dad randomly bought me a pearl snare with a nice case. Haha. Ironically it had a trumpet book in the case too. I guess I should get a drumset, haha. He also passed out recorders to everyone in my family, and made us play an unrehearsed version of Jingle Bells, some pretty impressive dissonance with 12 of those things going, haha. Especially with my 2 year old getting some inhuman high pitch coming out of it.
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Post by aliensporebomb on Dec 27, 2012 22:12:45 GMT -5
Sounds terrific all!
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Post by chromedinette on Dec 28, 2012 6:47:22 GMT -5
Normally I rarely get any kind of Christmas gift relating to music unless I beg and squeal. This year was different. I ended up getting a Voodoo Lab Giggity. Interesting but very subtle pedal. I did try the "fuzz face into the giggity into the amp" for a fake Eric Johnson type sound. It was the virtual fuzz face in the VG-99 but it did actually work believe it or not. Knuckleheads might think the pedal useless - it lets you massage your tone in a very fine grained type of way: Distorted you could do something like "I like the overall sound but want less overall upper mids and some more air in things" and you can do it. It lets you refine an existing tone even more than you normally could. You could also compensate for a thin sounding guitar by fattening it up. If you're fingerpicking using a clean tone you can use it to emphasize the upper frequencies if you're on a neck pickup for a warmth with clarity effect. It's kind of a strange mix between a compressor, very guitar oriented equalizer and booster in one pedal. It also seems to be subtractive as well as additive: if your guitar does something you don't like you can de-emphasize that and push the thing you want it to do. There are numerous videos on the web but if you want audio examples I could do some. Another cool thing: you can run a digital FX processor into it and then into your amp and it warms it up and gives it a kind of vibey faux tube sound. I have also been curious about that pedal. I almost bought one, but at the same time, a used Chandler Limited Little Devil colored boost appeared used on Ebay. I grabbed that, since they rarely appear for cheap and it has a similarly unorthodox(for a guitar pedal) set of eq functions. It sounds incredible, but I may still try a Giggity, despite the goofy name. |
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Post by brucestevens on Dec 28, 2012 9:36:01 GMT -5
I got a $50 gift certificate to a local shop. I think I'll finally get my acoustic 12 string set-up and ready to rock.
Bruce
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Post by aliensporebomb on Dec 28, 2012 17:58:13 GMT -5
It's pretty obvious they wanted a name that was familiar due to the family guy/glen quagmire connection (I'm not sure why!) but maybe they thought:
"Giggity, it gets you gigs." Maybe.
Now I'm going to make some weird noises with it.
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Post by bear on Dec 28, 2012 22:23:23 GMT -5
I have also been curious about that pedal. I almost bought one, but at the same time, a used Chandler Limited Little Devil colored boost appeared used on Ebay. I grabbed that, since they rarely appear for cheap and it has a similarly unorthodox(for a guitar pedal) set of eq functions. It sounds incredible, but I may still try a Giggity, despite the goofy name. The Chandler stuff is indeed interesting. Kind of rare/niche and I'm not sure if anyone has more than educated guesses on Wade's design principles yet. |
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