December 24th, 2007
Top of the season to you all from us here at aquaeffector. It has been a pretty nutty year, could have blogged a bit more, but heaps of stuff keeping us busy. Anyway wishing you all the very best for 2008 - year of the mouse!
I found this blog - Guitar Made Easy - which I thought might be useful to some of you out there. I liked this post -
That has always been a challenge! And I really respect people who can drink and / or smoke whilst nailing it… Superhuman:)
And there is a really useful article from David Bryne (ex Talking Heads) up at wired.com talking about different ways to approach music distribution. Well worth a read if you don’t want to get ripped off by some suit wearing music company RIAA git.
Rock on!
October 17th, 2007
Handily combining reverb and delay, the Boss Digital Reverb / Delay RV-3 effects pedal is a great addition to one’s chain for a wide range of players. Whilst the delay isn’t quite at the level of the sound you can get with a decent analog tape reverb unit and the reverb of course wont take you to the heights a spring reverb will, this beast does provide a wide range of sounds and pro-quality audio output.
The Boss Digital Reverb /Delay RV-3 stomp box is used by a wide range of guitarists from Incubus’ Mike Einziger and Korn’s Munki all the way through to Tom Petty.
Guitargeek had this to say about the RV-3 pedal:
a great all around reverb and delay unit with a ton of options to suit most styles. 11 modes offer various modes of standard delay, delay plus reverb, and straight reverb. Up to 2 seconds of delay and four useful types of reverb (Room 1, Room 2, Hall, and Plate) are fully tweakable. Like most Boss delays, the repeats are crisp & pronounced with a dependable decay. All four reverbs bordered a little on the bright side and we constantly found ourselves rolling a bit of high-end off with the tone knob just to keep things warm. It’s not shrill in any sort of way, we just happen to like our reverb a little darker sounding. The Reverb/Delay combination modes knocked the delay time down to around 1 second but created a thick and washy spaciousness that should send most ambient types and space rockers into the stratosphere.
With so many options it can take a bit of playing around with to get just the right sound you are after and you might even want to take notes while doing so, but with a bit of sweat and shredding the RV-3 is a mighty fine piece of equipment.
We have one up for sale on ebay. It is in almost new condition, with just some sticker residue on the plastic parts and is working fine. US$129 $119, plus $20 dollars shipping world wide. We only have one, and these sell faster than Led Zeppelin tickets (well not really but pretty quick). The ebay page is here: Boss Digital Reverb / Delay @ ebay from Aquaeffector.
October 17th, 2007
No posts for a while - sorry about that! There have been some changes here at Aqua Effector, Kojiro has moved to Saitama (nearer to Tokyo) and I have moved back into the center of Tokyo. It is a bit of a change from living in the country but great to be back in our old stomping grounds.
We are still sourcing and selling vintage and rare effects pedals and musical equipment from within Japan for customers around the world. Kojiro is handling sales as well at the moment. We have a couple of exciting projects we are working on for 2008 and will post more about that later on. In the meantime, keep on rocking!
August 14th, 2007
A small update - we have moved most of the old posts from the former site of the blog over to the main site here at aqua effector. The old site- blog.aquaeffector.com should redirect you automatically here (just in case you were wondering why you were on this page).
Have a great day!
April 10th, 2007
We just got in some more effects pedals that we will be putting up for sale over the next week or so. Have to test them first - but here is a list:
Yamaha Graphic EQ GE10-M2
Yamaha Overdrive OD10-M2
Yamaha Multiband Distortion MBD-20M
Guyatone Digital-D 12 bit Delay
Guyatone Compression Sustainer
Guyatone Loop & Gate Double Effect
Boss Digital Pitch Shifter/PS-2 Delay (Taiwan model)
Maxon Digital Chorus DC-01
One of the really nice things about doing this business, is being able to play a wide range of effects pedals.
If you are interested in the above pedals, send us a message via the contact page and we will see what we can do for you.
