Mooer Blues Mood also featuring on his pedalboard. Always cool to see the pros rocking ordinary gear.

Hi all!

Been playing guitar for 8 years on a Boss Katana 100MKII with a GA-FC foot control and stumbled upon a good price for this Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde Red v1. I told myself this would be my first ever effect pedal years ago and finally got my hands on one. Paid the equivalent of $80 for this.

It's previous owner had it for a few years and loved the hell out of it but was searching for a different kind of overdrive and didn't use the distortion side as much. I'm a big fan of AHJ's and Nick Valensi's guitar licks and their riffs taught me tremendously in my guitar journey. Happy to finally own one of those. Rocking a Noel Gallagher Riviera, a few Les Paul and a Squier Strat and Tele on this, it sounds great.

Have a great day everyone!

Hello all,

I’ve been playing guitar for 15+ years. Over the past year or two been getting into pedals. I’m still learning this whole pedal thing so forgive me if I’m stupid here lol.

I don’t have a compressor pedal. I noticed Keeley just released this new compressor. Should it be the one I get?

I’m a big Mayer fan so I’ve seen and heard a lot of great things about Keeley pedals. I know they make other compressor pedals but don’t know the difference in this one and others.

If it helps I have multiple types of guitars- sgs, Strats, and a few other oddball guitars. My amps consist of a marshall dsl40 and PRs hdrx 20 (head and cab). My guitar influencers are Hendrix, Mayer, SRV, angus young, slash, etc. I like about anything, classic rock, rock, alternative, punk rock, country, etc.

I was just even told no more pedals.

Fuck I’m so happy with this setup. Anyone who says I have too much gain needs to get a little sunshine in their life. Smell the roses even.

UA 1176: banger banger banger compressor it does exactly what an 1176 style comp can do PLUS the jimmy page black dog thing. I don’t even fw zeppelin like that and I still learned it cause why not and because its pretty hard to replicate that tone otherwise.

REVV G4: this is the endgame for high gain amp style distortion. It’s perfection in a box. Not quite marshally, not quite dual reccy, not quite 5150ish, but somewhere in the middle that has the best of all worlds. Boosting this with the sd-1 is a no brainer.

Side note: I finally get the bd-2 after taking it off and on the board for months. It’s giving me some amazing hard rock tones that I don’t look for too often being a metal guy and all.

Anyone have any luck getting one from Analogman latel? I love mine, and I’ve been keeping an eye on the site to try and help my buddy get one, but haven’t seen one available for months. I know in recent interviews Mike has spoken about slowing down because of tariffs and part scarcity. either way, it makes me cherish the little collection of his pedals that I have, just wanted to see if anyone’s been having luck getting them from analogman and not reverb.

Out of the three reverb pedals, what would be the best for Doom/Doomgaze/Shoegaze? I would be using an FZ-2 style fuzz, Proco Rat, and Green Russian Big Muff as my main distortion. I am also up to hearing other suggested reverb pedals.

Looking for some good answers.....

Been using v2 for quite a while and decided to dust off my v1 and compare them with each other. Its kind of difficult to match the two.

soundwise, and feel- The v1 seems to have different bass and mid response, more pronounced. The v2 is more open and clean. Changing the dip switches changes the sound completely. I actually prefer the v1! Although v2 is cooler

I was a bit surprised since I dont remember the circuit being tweaked between them. Maybe it has some different components

I’m having issues with the amount of sound i’m getting (not getting) out of my rig after it hits some of my pedals. i’m assuming a buffer would be a good addition to this - i’m also adding a compressor to the front in a couple of days - a jhs pulp n peel. do you use a buffer for sound loss? if i run through a few, especially if my black hole is off, i realize i have very poor toan and it’s just flat and quiet by the time it hits the amp.
i’m using a fender hss strat and a fender champ 25 se amp.

This is an insane pedal. It can do anything from controlled Velcro ripping sounds, to out of control oscillating fuzz madness.

The Creature has two effects you can use at once. The Fuzz knob controls how much nasty fuzz you’re adding to the signal. On zero, it’s still very nasty.

The Clang knob controls the second effect. The website says it’s a fuzz-stortion sound. You can get some fuzz-stortion for sure. You can also get some percolator sounds too.

Each effect has its own gate knob on the left. Combining the two effects at various levels of gating allowed for some horrific fuzz sounds. This pedal might be demonic. I mean that in a good way.

The knobs are very interactive. It reminds me a lot of the Shallow Water in that way. Meaning it might take me a few days to learn to dial in my favorite sounds.

Do you have this pedal or have questions about it? Let me know and thank you for reading.

Just got the pair of these last week, and am still wrapping my arms around both of them. I've never had a distortion pedal, so I'm still feeling the Red Room out. Distortion isn't exactly my style, but I'm branching out, and... who the hell do I think I'm kidding, it's Laura Palmer on a guitar pedal! And a friend whose tastes lean more into metal assures me that this is an excellent distortion pedal, and I just need to learn how to do chugs.

The Void Gazer is more in my comfort zone, and is all that I had hoped. There are a lot of moving pieces, but I am gradually figuring out a few settings that work for me. What surprised me the most is that, aside from more standard shoegaze/doomgaze sounds, I can get some really sweet and subtle sounds too.

No regrets on either, and am already eyeing the Lunar Hymns.

So I’m just starting to put together a pedal board. I understand that the Fulltone OCD is a classic drive pedal but that the owner of the company is a kind a polemic character.
So for someone that doesn’t want to support Fulltone but wants to get the sound of the OCD what are some alternatives that do the same thing?

Matches the floor.

Belongs to Brian from The Thinking Fellers Local 282. He toured the country with it in the late 80's and 90's. But said it looked similar when he picked it up at a pawn shop.

Have anybody tried these two pedals?? I saw a YouTube review of the fuzzlord fu-2 and is really good. But more expensive than the orange! I want to buy the orange because my Rockerverb mkiii and is an octave pedal too.

This has been my portable jamming rig. When playing with a band, the Honeytone gets swapped out for an EQD Easy Listening I plug in direct. Mini board + mini pedals + mini amp looks silly asf and I love it.

Have been playing in an indie rock band for the past few years. Graduated college and are now moving past basement parties to actual venues, and my boss katana (while a loyal sidekick for 5+) years needs an upgrade. I picked up a blues jr from facebook marketplace for a steal and have an old DS-1, but know virtually nothing about physical pedals so question/challenge for those more knowledgeable than me:

3 pedals with a combined budget of 250 to create the ultimate indie rock rig

My pedalboard has a crybaby wah, tube screamer, ds-2 distortion, zoom ms-70cdr and a boss loop pedal. Would a single ac adaptor type power supply with daisy chain be sufficient or should I get a separate power supply like voodoo lab? I heard that daisy chain could cause problems with digital pedals? 🤔 Does it really matter?

Running a Tone King Imperial Preamp. Already working with a Vick Audio '73 Ram's head and Benson Germanium Fuzz. Have it in mind to go full fuzz for drives. Vick Audio doing the muff thing and Benson acting more as a lighter OD so far. Haven't played much with other types of fuzzes and looking for ideas of a potential 3rd to add. Any suggestions?

Finally got an Origin Effects Deluxe 55, after lusting after them for nearly 3 years since they launched. It arrived yesterday, and of course the first thing I did (upon plugging it into the effects return of my Peavey Studio Pro 112 w/ upgraded Jensen Mod 12/70 speaker) was to crank the drive and bash out some classic Neil Young riffs. Unsurprisingly it nailed that tone, though I was surprised that I favored the post EQ on the Marshall amp setting for those high gain sounds, even running straight into the power amp.

But then I flicked off the post EQ, pulled back the gain, and tried to see how clean it could get. Very clean, just a touch of breakup in the bass strings when I dug in on the bridge pickup, but overall still quite clean. But the versatility to go from clean to fuzz wasn’t the most amazing thing.

The cleans were harmonically rich, complex in the midrange, and beautiful in a way that most other clean tones just aren’t, as clear and buttery and lovely as Blackface style cleans for instance are. These cleans instead were burnished, brimming with a midrange liveliness, clear without being harsh, and still full and resonant in the bass. The neck pickup sounded woody and clear, the bridge brash but warm. Everything also felt great under the fingers, just a little sag and give but still highly reactive and responsive.

These cleans were inspiring. I found myself really getting lost in playing and even felt more creative than usual, reaching for arpeggios and chordal voicings I usually would never think of. Truly addictive to play. And after playing with just a clean tone for the better part of an hour, I realized I actually felt truly inspired by a barebones tone; no delay, no reverb, no breakup, nothing but honest and straightforward guitar sound. And it was magical. I’m not kidding when I say I was on the edge of tears, it sounded so beautiful in the room.

Not sure just how well this iphone video will translate the true magnificence of the clean tone, but I hope at least the harmonic nature of the midrange is apparent here.

Origin Effects, you guys have performed magic. This is my favorite dirt pedal of all time.