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[Paulscoconutass]

1) What's the name of a pedal that - i suppose - would go at the end of your set-up which creates a constant, manually set, level of sound no matter how quiet or hard you're playing? (If it's called a leveler, i'll kill myself). Or is there any way that you can change your set up to minimise the difference between the sound level of one string and all 6 strings?

2) Can you buy, or make, a pedal that records a short piece and plays it on a loop. The idea of each click being: Record, Looped Playback, Erase, Record... I know certain multi-pedal things have this feature but arsed spending shitloads on one feature.

3) What's a reliable, but not-too-pricey fuzz pedal?

[shaun]

Originally Posted by Paulscoconutass

1) What's the name of a pedal that - i suppose - would go at the end of your set-up which creates a constant, manually set, level of sound no matter how quiet or hard you're playing? (If it's called a leveler, i'll kill myself). Or is there any way that you can change your set up to minimise the difference between the sound level of one string and all 6 strings?

2) Can you buy, or make, a pedal that records a short piece and plays it on a loop. The idea of each click being: Record, Looped Playback, Erase, Record... I know certain multi-pedal things have this feature but arsed spending shitloads on one feature.

3) What's a reliable, but not-too-pricey fuzz pedal?

1. an EQ?

2. http://www.zvex.com/junky.html - what the demo video

3. dunno

[Chris]

3. Big Muff. You should be able to pick one up for about £40-50 on ebay

Originally Posted by Paulscoconutass

1) What's the name of a pedal that - i suppose - would go at the end of your set-up which creates a constant, manually set, level of sound no matter how quiet or hard you're playing? (If it's called a leveler, i'll kill myself). Or is there any way that you can change your set up to minimise the difference between the sound level of one string and all 6 strings?

2) Can you buy, or make, a pedal that records a short piece and plays it on a loop. The idea of each click being: Record, Looped Playback, Erase, Record... I know certain multi-pedal things have this feature but arsed spending shitloads on one feature.

3) What's a reliable, but not-too-pricey fuzz pedal?

1: Compressor?

3: Do you mean fuzz or distortion, there is a difference?

Big Muff's are reliable Chris?

I thought compressor for the first one too, although the general opinion seems to be that it's best to put it first in the chain.

It won't completely level out your volume though.

[Paulscoconutass]

Originally Posted by MKII

3: Do you mean fuzz or distortion, there is a difference?

Definately fuzz, i've got an Overdrive pedal that does the trick already.

Originally Posted by DustyDeviada

It won't completely level out your volume though.

With my O-D pedal there's a massive sound level difference between playing Power/Barre chrods and single notes / string riffs. Just something that could minimise this would be good.

Originally Posted by Paulscoconutass

Definately fuzz, i've got an Overdrive pedal that does the trick already.

Are there any particular songs which feature the fuzz sound you'd like?

[Jeid]

A Compressor is what you're probably thinking of, but as already stated, this won't entirely level out your sound. Compressors are also usually the first in line of all your effects. I had a Boss one once upon a time and I wasn't a fan, sucked away a bit of tone.

Perhaps a proper setup of you guitar would set the string heights properly and even out your sound a bit? Perhaps not.

A reliable Fuzz pedal? A Rat would be a good bet.... keep an eye on eBay for something

Originally Posted by Eriatarka

A reliable Fuzz pedal? A Rat would be a good bet.... keep an eye on eBay for something

I wouldn't say a RAT, sound wise, is a fuzz pedal though, it's sound is more like distortion.

Paul, if you can afford it, buy this: http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com...roduct_id=2429

If not, this is a very cheap alternative:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DOD-Classic-Fu...QQcmdZViewItem

I owned one years ago and it's a nice fuzz, very underated!

[David]

1. a compressor should help level out the sound a bit and make it all a bit more even, check the Boss CS-3, MXR Dynacomp and Marshall ED-1 for some decently priced compressors

2. You would be wanting a loop pedal, or Delay with a looping function, Something like the loop function on a Line6 DL4, Boss do a looper pedal as one of the twin pedals and have just brought out a huge floorboard for looping and playing on the fly, or you get things like the ZVex lofi loop junky or Maneco microloopers, a decent loop pedal will cost you...

3. Have a look at the ProCo Rat, it sounds awesome, completely solid and not too expensive, or the Electro Harmonix Big Muff. those are two of the big pedals. The Zoom ultra fuzz is an awesome pedal too, not in production any more, but should be fairly cheap secondhand

David