Pedal Line Friday – 1/13 – Adam Parker

Today’s pedal line is from Adam Parker. If you have a pedal line (doesn’t have to be in a board) for your rig, please email me a photo, bio, description of pedals and routing to pedalline@nulleffectsbay.com. Every Friday I’ll showcase a pedal line submission. Make sure you include any links to your band or music page.

Hey there, I love your site and keep up with you guys daily through Facebook.

I wanted to submit my pedal line to you before the year ended, because it’s a collection that started just under 12 months ago in January. Everything shown in the picture attached has been acquired since then. I sold some unused gear of mine, and the simple want for a nice tremolo pedal quickly turned into a mild obsession of the ever growing world of boutique guitar effects and their builders.

My current group, Honest Engine, is a recording only project- so I keep my pedals un-mounted and unwired which I feel encourages me to constantly experiment with various combinations and order.  Also, while recording I typically only run my signal just through the pedals that I am using for that particular part.  I feel that this practice helps keep down excess noise.

Please visit my Facebook or ReverbNation page to hear some of the Honest Engine material, or to just say hello:
http://www.facebook.com/honestenginemusic
http://www.reverbnation.com/honestengine

Pedals listed by builder/brand:

VFE Effects:
Alpha Dog – Vintage distortion, capable of achieving some really dirty old combo amp sounds (and more). [info]

Blueprint Delay – Great all around analog voiced delay.  Extremely versatile for subtle effect to intense modulation. [info]

Enterprise – Great phaser, very thick and warm. [info]

Catalinbread:
Manx Loaghtan Fuzz – A Ram’s head Big Muff Clone.  This pedal is a beast. [info]

Montavillian Echo – Digitally voiced delay to mimic old echo tube effects.  Great for long, long delays. The self-oscillation is unreal, this is very unique sounding delay in my opinion. [info]

Dr. Scientist:
The Tremolessence – Simply put, one of (if not the) best sounding most revered tremolo pedals available today.
http://www.drscientist.ca/pedals/trem

EarthQuaker Devices:
Sea Machine – An extremely non-traditional sounding and operating chorus pedal.  It’s an analog/digital hybrid (so they say), and it very easily and quickly turns from a slight chorus to extreme modulation of tone. Basically using anything more than the Depth and Rate knobs on this pedal will take your tone into territory outside of a traditional chorus effect. That being said, it’s probably not a great substitute for a simple analog chorus, it’s definitely best when used for effects that other chorus pedals cannot achieve. [info]

Menatone:
Das Boost – A great sounding transparent, signal boost pedal. [info]

Sonic Research:
Turbo Tuner Model ST-200 – Extremely accurate, solid as a brick, easy to tune up with and the strobe is a great visual.  True bypass. [info]

Thanks
-Adam