As I'm finishing up my day cranking out more Jeff Loomis Sustain Blocks I get this text from Chris.
I just played guitar for 5 minutes and it seems like my boost pedals have been getting in the way of the Megablock tone.
So I set my pedal board
“buffer in / buffer out”with no boost on just using the pedals interior buffers. You can really hear the block working doing this.
It’s really expanding the note.
It’s pretty killer.
I’m going to mention this in future interviews.
I hadn’t played guitar in like 72 hours so I could really hear what was going on today. Really listening and not just burning solos.
I turned my preamp gain back to 2
Egnater ie4 Chan #4 has tons of gain.
With both boosts off that’s when I really heard what the block is doing. Notes are blooming and alive.
But it still plays fast articulately.
And with the boost pedals off there are no “string artifacts”.
That moment was the best part of my day.
Thanks Rob