Finished my board off by adding the two mini expression pedals and the expression ramper. Both exp pedals go to the HX Effects and are available to control the Enzo through MIDI. The ramper lets me utilize the presets on the Superego+ so I effectively have two presets per effects type and can morph between them. If anyone wants a deeper rundown let me know.
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Obviously something had to be different about it 
I also just learned the cure used an MT-2 on Bass, so yay, guess I have to buy another pedal 
@dfunk1983 How well does the Mel track at the bottom end? I’m keen on playing some Bach Cello riffs.
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Tested it with bass and it’s super fast. Going down to the low F is super quick response. The low E has a few issues, but I was using a patch on the HX Effects set up for guitar which might have been causing the problem as it was cutting a lot of low end before going into the Enzo.
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Which songs? MT2 is also huge on drums, you can modulate mid frequency.
I had 2 for stereo, regret them.
What about their flanger, choruses?
A friend lended me a Boss Super Chorus CH1, but I found it very soft, caracterless, almost unusable.
Just looked up the MT-2 was released in 92, so speculatively could have been used since the Wish album?
I know they all used the BF-2 and CE-2 in the 80’s, which is why I got them while at school. I also heard a few years ago that Robert never used chorus, using some sort of detuning instead?
I switched to the Boss Bass versions of flanger and chorus (not because the normal ones sounded bad) because they let a lot more bass through, and sounded equally as good on guitar.
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Isn’t it a chorus on 17 seconds ?
Could be, or flanger with low depth and rate?
Im pretty sure he used chorus on heaps of songs, but just mentioning that I heard he detuned (or un-tuned) strings to get that vibe.
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I picked up a Spaceman Aurora flanger a while ago, and discovered that it was getting me most of those 80’s “chorus” sounds I was chasing. Smith was probably using the BF-2 for those sounds.
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On a couple of occasions Josh Scott from JHS has mentioned that he’s seen Robert Smith in his live rig has a CE-2 permanently on and gaffer taped so the settings can’t be changed.
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I like the sound of tube amps, and have built a few over the years. Micing a cab has never much appealed to me, mainly since volume constraints in my home studio make that I cant turn the level up enough to make that work.
So I optimised my recording chain by building a tube preamp pedal. That feeds nicely into my zoom G3n with some reverb and a cab sim: works like a charm!
Preamp is based heavily on D-style overdrive special circuit, with a bold clean channel that can be fed into a second overdrive stage (footswitchable). It’s got a gainboost on a second footswitch, which works by dropping the tone controls out of the circuit.
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Yeh I too came across that yesterday in the ramblings of a tribute band. I’ve got a spare chorus or two that could find a home on an amp loop.
I went full nerd for an hour, did some digging and the only reference to the un-tuned chorus rumour I could find was in Wikipedia
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Iommi SG Special?
Yes indeed
Very nice SG!
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Yeah, in that respect I guess we are getting “vintage”. 
I have two main guitars, one is my 1991 strat that I got when I was 15. That doesn’t seem vintage, but it’s like 30 years old now, so definitely not new!
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So I was at guitar center for many hours today. It was totally empty so I had the store to myself, no distractions. Tried a bunch of guitars/basses across the board. Was very surprised by some of my findings.
Nowadays, there are very few truly bad guitars. All of the Mexican/Asian-made guitars and basses I tried were all solid instruments. You can get a ton of quality for under $1000. The fretwork on most of these guitars was better than a brand new made in Japan Yamaha SA2200 I purchased (which I returned of course). The only awful guitar I tried was a Chinese Höfner bass that felt really cheap and sounded terrible.
I tried Custom Shop/Murphy Lab and USA Gibson guitars. In regards to playability and quality, there is no difference at all. None. The USA Gibson guitars get way, way too much criticism online. These were flawless, high quality guitars. And I’m not sure anyone in the Murphy Lab has ever seen an old guitar. The aging was horrible. And the guitar felt brand new, not played in/vintage/etc. it was just an ugly, badly aged Les Paul that felt and sounded just like the USA Standard. The price difference of more than $2000 between USA and CS is laughable.
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