MichaelW
Well-known member
Cuz sometimes you just gotta walk away from the bench.
I've had two back to back extremely frustrating builds this week. What should have been fairly easy and quick builds have had me pulling my hair out. (Kliche and Paragon) They are both shelved for now until I can approach them with a better frame of mind. I wound up starting from scratch with a new Paragon PCB that one turned out fine, like the last few I built. Sent that off to a friend of mine who just got it today.
Anyway, I needed to step away from the bench and just go play some guitar, so I decided to put together the demo I'd been meaning to for a few weeks now. The idea was to showcase my Paragon Family of pedal builds documented here in this post.
These have really become my favorite overdrive pedals lately and I'm absolutely loving how they play.
So versatile, everything from clean boost to distortion.
In this clip all the guitars are using either the Paragon (MA858/1S1588), Paragon Mini (BA282/1SS133) or Pauper (BA282) pedals I've recently built.
I've tried to showcase some of the different low to medium gain flavors in this video as opposed to my last video of the Paragon that was more high gain.
Signal chain: Guitars->TC Polytune 3 (buffer on)->Pauper/Paragon Mini/Paragon->UAD Apollo Twin X->Clean 6L6 amp model->Reverb and Delay plugins. I used a Keely Compressor in front of the Paragon on the slide solo.
There's a mixture of clean boost, low gain, medium gain, fuzzy tones with all different combination of clipping settings on the track.
Guitars:
M-Line Thinline Tele with Lollars
Nash T-63 with Lollars
PRS S2 Vela Semi Hollow
PRS McArty 594
PRS S2 Starla
Oh and I totally suck at video creation/editing, somehow the audio seems to get out of sync whenever I upload something to YouTube.
I've had two back to back extremely frustrating builds this week. What should have been fairly easy and quick builds have had me pulling my hair out. (Kliche and Paragon) They are both shelved for now until I can approach them with a better frame of mind. I wound up starting from scratch with a new Paragon PCB that one turned out fine, like the last few I built. Sent that off to a friend of mine who just got it today.
Anyway, I needed to step away from the bench and just go play some guitar, so I decided to put together the demo I'd been meaning to for a few weeks now. The idea was to showcase my Paragon Family of pedal builds documented here in this post.
These have really become my favorite overdrive pedals lately and I'm absolutely loving how they play.
So versatile, everything from clean boost to distortion.
In this clip all the guitars are using either the Paragon (MA858/1S1588), Paragon Mini (BA282/1SS133) or Pauper (BA282) pedals I've recently built.
I've tried to showcase some of the different low to medium gain flavors in this video as opposed to my last video of the Paragon that was more high gain.
Signal chain: Guitars->TC Polytune 3 (buffer on)->Pauper/Paragon Mini/Paragon->UAD Apollo Twin X->Clean 6L6 amp model->Reverb and Delay plugins. I used a Keely Compressor in front of the Paragon on the slide solo.
There's a mixture of clean boost, low gain, medium gain, fuzzy tones with all different combination of clipping settings on the track.
Guitars:
M-Line Thinline Tele with Lollars
Nash T-63 with Lollars
PRS S2 Vela Semi Hollow
PRS McArty 594
PRS S2 Starla
Oh and I totally suck at video creation/editing, somehow the audio seems to get out of sync whenever I upload something to YouTube.