Members hangwire Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 ...and how Boss tried to copy them = & = Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AnderMocs Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 nope. i dont see it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted April 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 nope. i dont see it...the soundtanks were out 2 months and Boss released these to compete with them... at the time a shop put them head to head and they both are in the same "character"... just "better" [] enclosures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yablokonooza Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 The soundtanks were quite good, although the aesthetics didn't lend themselves to marketing, unlike the Boss enclosures (but who knows...). cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members surfcat Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 The soundtanks were quite good, although the aesthetics didn't lend themselves to marketing, unlike the Boss enclosures (but who knows...).cheers! They were good until the switches crapped out. They didn't just look cheap, they were cheap. Too bad-some of them sounded really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dissident52 Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 I have a DL5. I can't really attest to the sound, because mine doesn't work. But from what I read, despite the fact that it calls itself a digital delay, it is actually an analog delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members conky Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 I had a few Soundtanks and they never really gave me any problems. My delay did end requiring you to step on it twice to get the effect to engage every now and then but for the price I got them for (about 20 bucks a piece) I couldn't really complain. I've still got a distortion laying around here somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orangesix Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 i used to have the powerlead,60's fuzz, and phasor. all sounded great. they all felt like cheap plastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onyxrhino Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 My first pedal was a Powerlead. I liked the sound of it (I think the band Hum used them too). It crapped out on me and I bought another one, because they were dirt cheap. Since I got back into effects this past year, I've tried out some more soundtanks. I had the Cyber Drive and the Echo Machine. The Echo Machine was great. The Cyber Drive was really a one trick pony but it could be cool with the right sorts of riffs. I still have a Black Noise. I really like the sound of it. But the switch was getting sticky (which seems pretty common on these pedals), so I'm having it rehoused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted April 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 My first pedal was a Powerlead. I liked the sound of it (I think the band Hum used them too). It crapped out on me and I bought another one, because they were dirt cheap. Since I got back into effects this past year, I've tried out some more soundtanks. I had the Cyber Drive and the Echo Machine. The Echo Machine was great. The Cyber Drive was really a one trick pony but it could be cool with the right sorts of riffs. I still have a Black Noise. I really like the sound of it. But the switch was getting sticky (which seems pretty common on these pedals), so I'm having it rehoused. a few years ago Devi Ever quested for a Black Noise pedal... and I don't want to misrepresent, but that quest led to the pedal tinkering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blakemore Effects Posted April 19, 2009 Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 Wasn't that Cyberdrive supposed to be so horrible that it was awesome? I remember hearing that somewhere, but I could never find one to try out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted April 19, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 19, 2009 Wasn't that Cyberdrive supposed to be so horrible that it was awesome? I remember hearing that somewhere, but I could never find one to try out. it was kinda like a bad incarnation of the Zvex machine... something that you used on gain to produce a weird effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seifukusha Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 echomachine is good, i had that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FuzzShifter Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 The Classic Metal has huge mids, and an amp-like feel. I have a Powerlead. It sounds pretty good on bass. Side note: The first run had metal enclosures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loud'n'A-noise Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 echomachine is good, i had that. I have that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members andreas Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 I have a DL5. I can't really attest to the sound, because mine doesn't work. But from what I read, despite the fact that it calls itself a digital delay, it is actually an analog delay.Nah, it's digital. It actually uses a delay chip from a karaoke machine (true story!). I have two of those, and they sound really nice. I also have an EM5, which is superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hurtzher Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 With the peeps I was playing with back in the early to mid 90s, I used my TS-5. That thing sounded great but was never really reliable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thunderpuppy Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 a friend used to call them "potato bugs". I still have the chorus... it was heavily modifiable, and I've got the width, depth, and wet/dry tweaked to the point where it can be a wide pitch shifting vibrato. They were always good pedals to mod because they were cheap (so you're not risking ruining expensive gear) and plastic (easy to drill). I've heard about the reliability issues, but mine has never crapped out on me... and I've been pretty cruel to the poor thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rogueweez Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 I used to have the tubescreamer soundtank. It made this chirping noise when I turned it on and off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrChrisos Posted April 20, 2009 Members Share Posted April 20, 2009 Wasn't that Cyberdrive supposed to be so horrible that it was awesome? I remember hearing that somewhere, but I could never find one to try out.My first stomp box was an Xtortion. Still got it somewhere.It's so bad it's..... aw man it just {censored}ing sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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