Hey all, I'm looking to find the tour dates for the meds era - in particular, when they played Milan, Italy, at a venue called Mazdapalace. White Rose Movement was the opener.
I was at that show with a beloved family member who's passing away from illness, and I'd like to find the date. Can anyone help me?
Gritty, sharp, and sizzling hot isn't how I usually like my coffee, but in this case it will do :D
I'd been nosing around percolator circuits right when EHX dropped the announcement for this one, so I preordered via Anderton's. They said they expected stock to arrive around July 8, but this got to me yesterday!
(No pictures yet, cause it's late and I don't feel like messing around with image hosting, but guess what - it looks exactly like the photos)
Played around with it 5 minutes yesterday evening, and about half an hour tonight, so I'm starting to get a sense of it thought there's nooks and crannies to explore. I like it a whole lot, so far.
The first thing is, there's a breadth of really distinctive and characterful sounds, most of them very usable (though admittedly, some of these are usable if you like your tone quite broken - but I assume anyone after a perc in 2026 would). As recorded for other percolator types, this REALLY sings at lower gains, with a broken, wooly OD sound that's both grungy and very clear. The "OD/Fuzz" switch (taking a clipping diode in/out, I'd guess) amplifies this, making further usable room at lower gain levels. As you push it, you can get some spitty, splatty and velcroy tones, but there's some synthy goodness to be found on the way.
Interestingly, the clarity stays with the signal as the gain and nastiness go up, WAY past when I expected it to turn to inaudible mush. I managed to play some full cowboy chords and hear all the main tones already well into velcro-land. By the same token, this stacks really musically to my ears (and I generally don't like stacking gain), AND cleans up very effectively more or less throughout the range.
The controls are quite interactive, and there's lots of balancing them out - adding a bit here when you subtract there, etc. The bias control does a whole lot of work, but sometimes needs a bit of help: on the OD setting and/or at low gain levels, the high and low extremes of the bias knob get very choked and quiet, but higher gain settings open those ranges on the knob for a further serving of grinding metal and broken glass (in, like, a good way).
I've played it with my maton MS-500, that has fairly low-output pickups (a single coil in the neck and a small humbucker with a convincing coil split in the bridge), and with my ES-339 Studio Memphis, with a single Dirty Fingers in the bridge position. It holds surprisingly well to the onslaught of a higher-output pup, where other fuzzes get wooly and farty way sooner - once again, the circuit's clarity at work.
I have a baby and only have time late evenings, so this was played through my new (to me) Boss IR-2; as such, I have a decent sense of the tones, having tested this against pedals I know better, but I don't necessarily have a ton of sense of the relative volume, compression, and how well the pedal pushes a live amp and guitar to feedback (Which is apparently a feature the original Percolator was renowned for). I may update this next time I have a chance to run it with a loud amp; what I've heard so far has been inspiring and fun, so I'm certainly looking forward to.
So, I think it's pretty clear what I had, though my opinion on that Johnny Cash thing is sometimes controversial. What do you think?
Hey all, as per title - I'm a guitarist and I'm sorta-maybe-thinking that it could be fun to mess around with a synth a bit. My situation-requirements:
Now, as the description clearly tells you, my model for this in my mind is the microkorg that my friends had when we were teens. It would kinda hit all the spots, I guess - the question is, it's been 20 years. What else is there that kinda fits the bill?