{"id":1116,"date":"2009-12-30T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2009-12-30T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:14:38","slug":"im-finally-finding-some-use-for-the-holy-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"I’m (finally) finding some use for the Holy Stain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About a year ago, I got the Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain<\/a>. \u00a0It is, I believe, the company’s only multi-effects pedal, and the price ($99) made it hard to resist. \u00a0I quickly learned that, although fun, this is not the most useful item for my pedal-line. \u00a0The reverb is nice and the controls give me a nice variety and range of sound, but the distortion effect is a bit too bludgeon-y and there’s a much bigger problem. \u00a0A fairly long pedal line (6 or more pedals) means that distortion and reverb can’t be right next to each other. \u00a0Reverb should be at the back (absolute last before amp) and distortion goes near the front, closer to the instrument. \u00a0In between there are modulators (phaser or flanger) and delay (I <3 LOTS of delay). \u00a0So, by smashing a distortion\/overdrive ciruit right up against a reverb, there’s no way to get anything in between. \u00a0As a result, the Holy Stain has spent too much time in the box.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I didn’t discard the item. \u00a0Last week, I fulfilled a lifelong fantasy of getting a steel-body resonator guitar<\/a>. \u00a0The Dean Resonator Chrome G sounds great unplugged, but does have magnetic and piezo pickups that can be mixed for the purpose of playing “plugged in”. \u00a0But, while the construction of the instrument is top-notch, the electronics are just not great. \u00a0So, I figure I’d just play the thing unplugged.<\/p>\n

Enter the Holy Stain. \u00a0This guitar doesn’t want a lot of spacey effects. \u00a0It’s for playing blues and not so much Progressive Rock. \u00a0But a little dirt and a little tremolo (which can be chosen on the Holy Stain instead of ‘verb) can provide just he right amount of rootsy, Lanois-esque atmosphere to make the budget pickups come alive. \u00a0Sound samples will follow shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, I got the Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain. \u00a0It is, I believe, the company’s only multi-effects pedal, and the price ($99) made it hard to resist. \u00a0I quickly learned that, although fun, this is not the most useful … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[969,967,968,965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}