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. Matt likes his music big and loud and…big, and the pedals he and his partner Carl make fall right in line. If you are not familiar with Electrofoods Ultd. 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. Electronic Audio Experiments – Longsword Overdrive
“I run a stereo setup most of the time, so I have parallel signal chains for a high amp and a bass amp in my normal rig for our band. I think I probably use the Longsword differently than everyone else does because it is my always-on “clean plus” tone. I have the clipping disengaged and I have the gain way down and I’m just using it for just a little bit of grit and a little bit of mid boost. I’m really using it as just like a slightly dirty preamp. I actually had one of our Electrofoods pedals, the germ warfare in that slot for years. It was one of the earliest ones we made. But the long sword knocked it off my board. The Longsword uses boosted rail power supply too. The nine-volt power supply that comes in the standard power supply for pedals is just nine volts DC. Inside the Longsword is a voltage booster that bumps that up to, I don’t remember what, but I would guess 24 volts. So you have a lot more headroom inside the pedal than you normally would without that voltage booster. You can still use the nine-volt power supply with that– just plug the regular nine-volt in and the inside of pedal, it does all that magic and boost it up to a much higher voltage.“
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2. Mask Audio Electronics – Black Math Boosted Fuzz
“It does that super powerful bass that like gets you in the guts and it like rolls and sustains with the bass without getting too chunky or choppy. I’m all about sustaining compression in my current band Bootlegger. It’s all about being able to play a chord and having it ring out as a big heavy chord for as long as I need it to. And I don’t actually have a compressor on my board. I do that with the distortion and Fuzz pedals that I have and the Black Math does that super well. The Black Math is sort of a super extreme version of a Russian muff, taking that sort of sound to the extreme, with an op amp booster in front of it. There’s the three standard muff knobs and then a knob that is the gain on an op amp booster that slams the front end of that muff circuit.”
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3. Electronic Audio Experiments – The Sending Delay
“The sending is the best sounding delay I’ve ever heard. Bar none.”
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4. Hardwire – RV-7 Stereo Reverb
“The RV-7 also has the internally boosted voltage so that they can handle my frickin ridiculous Peavey T- 60 with the series pickups without clipping. The Hardwire brand no longer exists so the used RV-7’s are expensive now that people starting to finally realize how good they were.“
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Huge thanks to Matt for being a guest on our show and please check out Electrofoods Ultd. We wish him continued success!