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    Diago Showman Pedal Board

    in Effects For Sale

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    For Sale - Diago Showman pedal board.

    I've had this for a couple of years but it's only seen use out of the house for a couple of months. I don't need anything this size anymore so it needs a new home. There are some light scuffs & marks on the outside but no big scrapes or damage. The velcro in the base has been replaced with better stuff than was originally fitted. The new velcro has been glued using proper impact adhesive so it will never come off, unlike the original that got soft when the weather was warm and peeled off really easily. The foam inside the lid has some pedal knob marks, but this is only cosmetic, it still does it's job just fine. These Diago boards are built like tanks.

    The measurements inside are 750mm (29.5") x 350mm (13.75") x 100mm (4")

    Here's the Diago product page: [url="http://www.diago.co.uk/pedalboards/diago-pedalboards.html"]http://www.diago.co....edalboards.html[/url]

    The asking price of £75 includes UK recorded shipping. These go for £115 new. I'll knock a few quid off for collection in person from north London, N4.

    Talk dirty too me !!!!

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    If you want extreme I'd say go for the Aftershock. It'll do that in spades. And with the three stock sounds you also get to save three of your own in preset mode. That's 6 sounds already without getting into external switching, all for £120.

    Incoming: Source Audio Aftershock Bass Distortion

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    I've had the Aftershock for 10 days now and I'm learning more about it every time I fire it up. After the initial euphoria I had a few hours messing about with the PC editor - the damned thing just annoyed me, a lot. I found this editor to be a pain in the @rse. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the Neuro app and the PC editor can talk to each other. Maybe I missed something here though. I'm sticking with the Neuro app now. I have the Aftershock (and a Lunar phaser, which does phase/chorus/flange) hooked up to a Neuro Hub and a One Control Gecko Mk2 (MIDI switcher), with my expression pedal plugged into the Neuro Hub.
    The way it's working best for me is to use the app to tweak a sound, burn it to one of the presets on the pedal, then save it as a preset on the Hub & Gecko. Then I can tweak the relevant Aftershock knob to find the min & max levels for whatever parameter I want to control with the expression pedal, and get that added into the Hub & Gecko patches. Once I got going it didn't take long to get all this done really fast and what initially seemed to be a time consuming task is now pretty easy. On the Aftershock I'm using my exp pedal for volume, treble & blend duties. I haven't yet used it for mid boosts, wet levels and the various other parameters the app lets you assign to two of the knobs on the front of the pedal. All in good time.
    When I save patches on the Hub & Gecko I'm saving sounds on both the Aftershock and the Lunar (the same process apples to both pedals). At the moment I'm not planning on using them both at the same time and they're in different signal paths on my board, but for each MIDI preset I create I now have two pedals programmed with sounds and exp pedal settings. Sweet.
    I quickly realised that the Aftershock will never challenge my favourite dirt pedals, they are just too good, and they aren't going anywhere in a hurry. But with MIDI switching the Aftershock can do a whole lot of other dirt sounds (including parallel distortions, very cool!) clean/dirty boost, EQ changes, the list goes on. It's really versatile. You just have to put the time in to get to know it. For what it's worth, I liked the B3K model although it's been a while since I last played one myself so someone else can have the final word on that.
    If you buy an Aftershock just for the 3 factory sounds you won't be disappointed, they're worth the asking price alone. If you are into lots of tweaking then this pedal with the app/editor might also suit you, the hours literally fly by though, be warned.

    Incoming: Source Audio Aftershock Bass Distortion

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    I finally got delivery of mine today. I've had an hour on it and so far I really like it. There are so many parameters in the Neuro app to mess with, but I've found that getting a good basic sound comes down to the basics of drive, blend & volume. So using it without the app would work fine if you were happy just to have the stock 3 sounds. But getting into the app does open up a world of tweaking and lots of other distortion models. I haven't found a bad model in it yet. The app EQs do work well for fine tuning too. So far so good, looking forward to this weekends gigs to hear it at proper volume levels.

    Incoming: Source Audio Aftershock Bass Distortion

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    With hindsight I wish I hadn't pre ordered. BD have answered both my emails in the past month but haven't actually given me any firm information in either response. I just phoned them and got pretty much the same answer 'they're on the way but we don't know when they'll be here'. Finger on the pulse there or what eh.

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