New Pedal Set-up for 01/24/2010 ...a new addition Lovepedal Englishman

New pedal set-up 01/24/2010 (note to self: knob settings):

Guitar -> Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner -> Dunlop 535 Wah -> '81 Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer -> Keeley 4-knob compressor -> Lovepedal Eternity Burst -> Lovepedal Kanji Eternity -> Lovepedal Englishman -> Lovepedal Provalve 2 -> Boss DM-2 Delay -> Boss RC-2 Loop Station -> BBE Sonic Stomp -> Line6 DL4 Delay Modeler -> Fender Deville 410 amp (effects loop: Omnisonic Deluxe Tube Amp Volume Control Box -> Lovepedal Kanji 50 Gold) 

a new addition: Lovepedal Englishman...review will be up next...

Lovepedal Eternity Burst ~ hand-wired hand-painted

Lovepedal Eternity Burst is a boutique hand-made pedal from Sean Michael over at White Lake, MI. Now a discontinued model commanding almost twice as much when it was originally released. Purchased as used last September of 09 on Ebay for $210 and now selling around $350 and up. This is my 1st Lovepedal and i love every sound dialed in. It became a hobby collecting old-school and new-school Lovepedals. More reviews soon...

This is the warmest and very organic sounding OD pedal Lovepedal ever made thus a wooden-looking box. Its so transparent that it feels like you're just using a guitar and an amp. It sounds like a vintage 1980s Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer but with a lot more headroom and gain.

It has 3 knobs and has no label so you just figure each knob out. It has LEVEL, GLASS and DRIVE controls. This pedal works as a 3-in-1 pedal. With the proper setting you can use it as a Volume Boost, a Treble Booster and as a mild to medium overdrive.

FROM LOVEPEDAL:
The overdrive sounds features the warmest, woodiest tone of all the Eternity units. Hand-painted, hand-wired socketed IC chip for tone tweakers. Darker tones brighter tones, etc. Unorthodox tone control. It's a treble boost instead of a normal tone control.

It is a very smooth type of OD. It can go from nothing at all to sounding like a very warm vintage overdriven tube amp or a clean flat booster or a treble booster even a tweed amp.

With the treble boost all the way off, it is warmer than most tube amps. The Eternity Overdrive always stays true to what's coming out of your guitar so you never turn into the pedal. No matter how hard you drive it. It also breaks up the harder you dig into the strings, which is priceless.

The lush midrange and smooth overdrive shine beyond any mass market overdrive, distortion, or boost pedal. The Lovepedal Eternity can stay on all the time. Even at maximum gain you can get a completely clean tone by just backing off the guitar volume. Every note has it's own separate, ringing tone even at the highest gain settings. Crank it up, play an open chord and hear each note shine! The unique "Glass" control is a treble booster that doesn't affect any other frequencies. This means you don't have to sacrifice low-end or midrange in order to brighten it up. It also just adds to the diversity of this monsterous little box. Transparency, dynamics, harmonic response, this stompbox stays on the top of the heap! If you've tried every overdrive on the market and are still undecided, the Eternity from Love Pedal could be the one you've been looking for!

These old school units fetch over $350 on the used pedal market and many claim Lovepedal sprinkled magic dust on these...

I have tried a lot of overdrive pedals...

• BOSS OD-1 Overdrive (MIJ silver screw version)
• BOSS Super Overdrive SD-1 (MIJ version and the version with the Keeley MOD)
• BOSS BD-2 Blues Driver (w/ Keeley PHAT Mod)
• 81' Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 (always has a special place in my board)
• Lovepedal Eternity Kanji Series (Eternity, Red and COT...on the hunt for Kanji 9)
• Lovepedal Englishman (good as a clean boost, semi-clean boost and as a dirt pedal)
• Fulltone OCD v.3 
• three different Fulltone Full-drives (Custom cream version, 1st version, 2nd version and early white-board versions not PCB) 

and the Lovepedal Eternity Burst is still the winner on my list.  

a new love... LOVEPEDAL KANJI 50 COT GOLD

    
      * THIS IS A BOUTIQUE HAND-MADE PEDAL FROM SEAN MICHAEL OVER AT HIS SHOP IN WHITE LAKE, MI. PURCHASED FROM RAINBOW GUITARS FOR $129.99. NOW A DISCONTINUED MODEL RUNNING FROM $129-399 (YES, SOMEONE POSTED IT THAT MUCH - NO ONE BOUGHT IT ON EBAY YET). ITS A VERY SIMPLE AMP IN A BOX ONE-KNOB PEDAL THAT CAN GO FROM MELLOW TO A MARSHALL PLEXI SOUND. THE TRICK TO THIS PEDAL IS ITS GAIN TRANSISTOR KNOB THAT YOU CONTROL WITH YOUR GUITARS "VOLUME" AND "TONE" KNOB. THIS IS ANOTHER VERSION OF THE LOVEPEDAL COT (CHURCH OF TONE) NOW TURNED INTO A KANJI SERIES.

IT TOOK ME TWO DAYS TO FINALLY GET THE FEEL OF THIS PEDAL. WHEN I GOT TO THE RIGHT SETTING FOR MY SETUP, IT JUST HITS THE SWEET SPOT. NOW ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE PEDALS. I LEAVE THIS ON ALL THE TIME WITH A KEELEY 4-KNOB COMPRESSOR AND A BBE SONIC STOMP. WITH A TRUE SILENT BYPASS SWITCHING, YOU WONT HEAR ANY POPPING NOISE WHEN TURNED ON OR OFF.

THESE WERE THE ISSUES THE FIRST TIME I USED IT:
1.) WAS THIN SOUNDING AND SOUNDS LIKE AN OLD TRANSISTOR RADIO TYPE OF DISTORTION.
2.) FIGURING OUT WHERE TO PLACE THIS PEDAL FROM MY SIGNAL CHAIN SINCE THE MANUAL DID NOT SUGGEST ANY.
3.) MY AMP EFFECTS LOOP HAS A VOLUME BOX AND KANJI50 SOUNDS VERY DIFFERENT WHEN PLACED BEFORE OR AFTER IT.

THE FIX:
1.) CHANGE THE VOLUME AND TONE FROM YOUR GUITAR TO MOVE FROM A MELLOW OVERDRIVE TO A MORE AGGRESSIVE PLEXI SOUND. NECK PICKUP FROM MY STRAT IS MY CHOICE TO GET TO A SWEET SPOT.
2.) PLAYERS PREFERENCE ON WHERE TO PLACE IT. I LEAVE IT ON ALL THE TIME AND CONTROL THE SOUND FROM THE GUITAR KNOBS.
3.) I NOW PLACE THE KANJI50 ON THE AMP BEFORE THE VOLUME BOX ON THE EFFECTS LOOP. ALSO, ANOTHER GOOD SPOT THAT WORKS FOR ME IS AFTER A KEELEY COMPRESSOR FROM MY PEDAL CHAIN...GUITAR->BOSS TU-2->DUNLOP WAH->IBANEZ TS9->KEELEY COMPRESSOR->KANJI50->FULLTONE OCD V.3->KANJI BURST->KANJI ETERNITY->LINE6 DL4->BOSS LOOP STATION->BBE SONIC STOMP->FENDER DEVILLE 410

LOVEPEDAL Limited Build - Gold Kanji 50:
http://twitter.com/Lovepedal/status/3901896247

FROM LOVEPEDAL:

What do you get when you mix a Kanji with a COT 50? Gold. Introducing the Gold Kanji 50. This is a limited build, so order your Kanji 50 before they're gone. I use this, and absolutely love it! It's beefy and amazing, and cleans up oh so nice when you need it to!

• Lovepedal Gold Kanji 50 Features:
• Made by Pedal God Sean Michael
• The Simplest Control Layout Ever
• Great Tone
• Cleans Up With Volume Pot

Lovepedal is like an addiction...gotta have 'em...next reviews will be for them:
Lovepedal Kanji Eternity
Lovepedal Kanji Classic Distortion
Lovepedal Eternity Burst
Lovepedal Provalve 2 - released January 2010 - just received while writing this review =)
Lovepedal Englishman (Death of the VOX) - released January 2010 - coming tomorrow =)
IM STILL ON THE HUNT FOR THE LOVEPEDAL KANJI 9 TO COMPLETE THE KANJI COLLECTION.

Heres a sample video from Sean Michael over at Lovepedal:





*sorry for using ALL CAPS i typed this one out @ work

New Pedal Set-up for 01/13/2010 (note to self: knob settings)

New pedal set-up 01/13/2010 (note to self: knob settings):

Guitar -> Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner -> Dunlop 535 Wah -> '81 Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer -> Keeley 4-knob compressor -> Lovepedal Eternity Burst -> Lovepedal Kanji Eternity -> Fulltone OCD V.3 -> Lovepedal Provalve 2 -> Boss DM-2 Delay -> Boss RC-2 Loop Station -> BBE Sonic Stomp -> Fender Deville 410 amp

just got in...LOVEPEDAL PROVALVE 2!!!

Just got it in...Lovepedal Provalve 2 is such a wonderful high-gain overdrive/distortion pedal. Best amp in a box pedal!!! Review will come up soon. No wonder Guitar Player magazine gave this an "Editors Pick Award". It gave my Fender Deville 410 a new "Marshall" channel. 

Here it is on a pedal board...its one of those pedals that makes you play on for hours...

IBANEZ AF9 AUTO FILTER ORIGINAL MIJ NOT REISSUE FROM 1980s

Like the rest of the 9 series from the 80s, they all sound good. Controls are 2 sliders for Sensitivity and Peak and then 3 switches for Drive, Filter and Range. By tweaking its parameters, you can go from subtle wah to full blown psychedelic funk. This is a tight pro-sounding effect.

Compared to the Boss' Touch Wah TW-1, Dynamic Filter FT-2, and the Auto Wah AW-2, (they're all different types of wah!!) this one is quiet with no hissing and as close as you can get to the Mutron 3 Envelope Filter. These vintage 9 series are climbing up in prices and this one is no exception. It now goes from $150-200 on the used pedal market.

Heres a video reference for the IBANEZ AF9: