What's on the workbench?

[dawson]

Calling a spade a spade…
The only reason they called Clapton “God” was his uncanny ability to mercilessly cause tremendous human suffering.

There’s an old joke about coffee and Clapton both sucking without cream. The truth though is that they’re both bitter and muddy, and even with cream, people only consume them either because they’re old and have compromised taste or because they’re young and think pretending to like them will make them seem more grown up.

How DARE you compare delicious coffee to Eric Clapton!

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

The Woman Tone pedal really isn't muddy, it just has a nice almost half-cocked wah (more like 1/4 cocked in this case) effect.

It's a little more "closed" than I typically would set a fixed wah, but it sounds excellent and really makes the guitar sing.

the pedal sounds great from what I've seen on YouTube. definitely seems more versatile than just coping the fairly standard cream-era Clapton tone. Any internal trim pots to note?

 

[Harry Klippton]

No, no, you misheard them. Klippton is God

 

[jubal81]

Never heard of it before, but the demo sounds pretty sweet. Hope we see a PCB for the one.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

@Bricksnbeatles I think you should give better coffee a shot.

I've tasted plenty of coffee over the years, from crappy over-sweet Starbucks stuff, to really fancy stuff from legit coffee people and I've never been able to stand the flavor. I can certainly appreciate the quality differences, but no matter what its just unpleasant to me.

I was always a bit more disappointed with Ginger Baker since he was actually phenomenal but without Cream... eh.

I never did get the Ginger Baker hype– He's good and all, but he hasn't contributed to much music that I find enjoyable. He was good in cream, but he never did anything that stood out to me, even with Fela or Hawkwind. If I'm gonna listen to a drummer who was chronically abusive to everybody he interacted with, they better have more than 80 minutes of worthwhile creative output. Not to say that he's bad, or that artistic worth is based on volume, but really a shockingly small proportion of his music is remotely interesting or listenable imo.

How DARE you compare delicious coffee to Eric Clapton!

Keep drinking your gross warm bean water– leaves (no pun intended) more delicious hot leaf water for me.

 

[benny_profane]

I've tasted plenty of coffee over the years, from crappy over-sweet Starbucks stuff, to really fancy stuff from legit coffee people and I've never been able to stand the flavor. I can certainly appreciate the quality differences, but no matter what its just unpleasant to me.

Fair enough. With the characterization of 'bitter' for all of coffee, it sounded like there may be something out there you might dig. But I have to agree with you in re tea.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Fair enough. With the characterization of 'bitter' for all of coffee, it sounded like there may be something out there you might dig. But I have to agree with you in re tea.

I certainly have tried to like coffee. My morning tea doesn't have nearly enough caffeine to sustain me through 13-hour studio-class days. alas Coffee and myself get along about as well as Ginger Baker and, well... anyone else.

 

[Robert]

Never heard of it before, but the demo sounds pretty sweet. Hope we see a PCB for the one.

It's only been out a few days.

So more like a Harmonic Energizer. I imagine it has a bit less range, though…

Similar result, yes, but you don't get the wide sweeps like the Energizer. The frequency is fixed as far as I can tell.

No trim pots, but there's a dipswitch for "Darker Woman Tone" which I suppose shifts the frequency or Q.

The drive sounds excellent all on it own, even before switching on the "Woman Tone".

 

[dawson]

Keep drinking your gross warm bean water– leaves (no pun intended) more delicious hot leaf water for me.

*Hot, bean water with a little "bloop" of milk.
Inject into any main artery.

 

[Robert]

Yeaaah my doctor told me to give up soda and coffee when I had a kidney stone...

I was drinking like a 12 pack of Cokes a day at one point and hadn't tasted water in years.

I quit drinking Cokes, but coffee? I'll just go ahead and die.

I don't even drink it for the caffeine, hell I drink coffee at night and it knocks me right out. Probably an adverse reaction to ADHD.

 

[dawson]

Yeaaah my doctor told me to give up soda and coffee when I had a kidney stone...

I was drinking like a 12 pack of Cokes a day at one point and hadn't tasted water in years.

I quit drinking Cokes, but coffee? I'll just go ahead and die.

I don't even drink it for the caffeine, hell I drink coffee at night and it knocks me right out. Probably an adverse reaction to ADHD.

Yeah.. it's not something I'd consider living without.
There's a fresh cup dripping in the kitchen for me as we speak type.

 

[music6000]

I might never turn this pedal off.

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Something like this :

 

[Feral Feline]

It's only been out a few days.

A few days, a few months, a few years... I don't care about the pedal's orientation or how it identifies — so long as I like how it sounds, it's okay by me.



Woe ! Man! Whoah Mmmannn!

 

[Robert]

If you stop drinking coffee

That's not a thing is it? TELL ME there aren't monsters out there in this world who are actually doing this?!

 

[Robert]

I just like coffee, I don't really drink it for the caffeine. It puts me to sleep anyway.

And I just want plain old dirt water coffee, you can keep all that french vanila and beetroot extract or whatever the heck kids are putting in there these days. Cold coffee? Only if I forgot it was sitting there.

 

[ICTRock]

cold brew was one of those "well what do you know, the kids are alright" sort of moments. It's actually good once you get past the urge to put it in the microwave

 

[Robert]

When I was a kid my grandmother used to make me coffee in the morning and put an ice cube in it so I didn't get burned.

It wasn't all that terrible, so I get it, it just seems so wrong.

Looking back, it's no wonder I needed ritalin to focus in school.

 

[finebyfine]

(One of my favorite food essays is about "bad" coffee, for what its worth: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee)

I drink cold brew and iced all year round, I don't know how anyone can down a piping cup

 

[music6000]

I stop drinking Coffee 40 years ago when I found out it was causing my Migraines.
I only drink Tea with Milk & 2 teaspoons of real sugar around 4 times a day since then!
Dilmah Extra Strength is my preferred brand.

 

[Robert]

I've never gotten a migraine from drinking coffee, although I've gotten them from not drinking my morning cup, so I suppose that's similar.

I'm usually fine unless I get carried away and drink it all day, then I end up a bit on edge and jittery.