FOUR ON THE FLOOR-JON FINTEL OF RELAY RECORDING

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What are your four ‘must-have’ pedals? That is what we ask our guests to share with you in our Four On the Floor podcast segment. Jon Fintel has spent his career honing in on great tone as a recording engineer and out of his vast library of pedals in his recording studio, these are his personal top four. If you are not familiar with Relay Recording do yourself a favor and check them out. He gave us a fantastic interview too! You can hear the episode for yourself right here. Check out these choices for his Four On The Floor.

1. Blackstone Appliances – Mosfet Overdrive

“This is my favorite overdrive pedal that I’ve ever heard in my life because on so many levels it’s great. It has two channels and it’s in a MXR size boxes. It has a brown channel and a red channel. That’s the only dumb thing about this pedal. When you’re flipping the thing from channel to channel, you either get like an orange light or you get a red light that’s very similar so it’s like ‘what am I doing here?’ But I have the red one just cranked to like smashing pumpkins level nine distortion, so I know you can hear it, it’s no secret. It’s a mosfet pedal it gets the overdrive from a chain of them all distorting a little bit as opposed to the diode flip thing, so you don’t get any of that fuzzy business on top. And uh, it’s been my go-to since I got it. I never heard the thing if I just read about it and I thought I’m going to get that. So I got it and it just blew me away. And the knobs are not knobs, they’re these little screws that are inset. I love the fact that these things are inset because I am the most famous like kicking knobs guy alive. It means business man, it’s reliable too—you could run over it with a car. It can go into a clean amp and still give you that good stuff. It’s not relying on the amp. I’d like to get another one actually, to have one on my board and have one that I can use the studio that I can just screw with.“

Check out the Blackstone Appliances – Mosfet Overdrive

2. Way Huge – Supa-Puss Analog Delay

“I really love it. It’s simple to use, it has everything I need on it and it sounds very rich. You can do all kinds of stuff with that pedal and it has a tap tempo on it. the super puss bright it right when you kicked these pedal when you kicked the switches. So you never interfere with those tiny little micro knobs. It’s a beautiful looking pedal too and it has lots of depth and all this crazy stuff you can do with the different delays on it as well. And there’s a middle button that you can select the feedback, then you can depress it and change it up.“

Check out the Way Huge – Supa-Puss Analog Delay

3. Chase bliss – Warped Vinyl Analog Vibrato/Chorus

“This way more pedal than I should have. So many knobs and switches and more switches. That is all great but the sound is the thing. It just does that, that warpy sound I mean it’s called warp vinyl. It does a modulation in the middle which is a timed thing, It’s not a continuous sine wave sort of chorus. It gives you something that has a shape to it that that moves as if it is totally warped. And you can change the speed of that, the depth of that, all kinds of stuff. It has again, six knobs. Yeah. Um, and a bunch of toggles. It’s crazy. I still, I mean I don’t know everything that it can do yet, but it’s brilliant.”

Check out the Chase bliss – Warped Vinyl Analog Vibrato/Chorus

4. Earthquaker Devices – Ghost Echo Reverb

“I love this pedal! It makes everything just big and juicy. I like modulation a lot. Especially in the band that I’m playing in now, that is a very big part of it. I’m the ‘color guy’, big spacey sounds, I’m playing the rhythm guitar that’s just filling space sort of. That thing just gets large is what it does and it creates a lot of space. It’s a simple pedal. Depth dwell and attack. And the fact that it has attack on it is pretty cool cause you could actually dial up like a slap back kind of thing. It’s emulating a spring reverb. It’s pretty cool. “

Check out the Earthquaker Devices – Ghost Echo Reverb

Huge thanks to Jon for being a guest on our show and please check out Relay Recording. We wish him continued success!