EHX Announces New BAG9 Bagpipe Pedal !!!!

[GeneB]

Electro-Harmonix announces the BAG9 Bagpipe Machine! What’s under the kilt? Why it’s the new BAG9 Bagpipe Machine featuring 9 great bagpipe sounds guaranteed to haunt and disturb your family, friends and neighbors!

No guitarist should be without one!

 

[Killing Floor]

It’s that time of year.

 

[bottlenecker]

I want this for real though.

 

[Rich_S]

I hear for the absolutely best tone, you have to run it on the JHS Bat-Sim, in Radio Shack mode at 10.3 volts.

 

[ale.istotle]

Every april fools day. Then my hopes are dashed.

 

[billy logan]

Uncanny how the E-H BAG9 knows your intended note, starts it out flat, but ends up sharp. I think AI is involved.

 

[fendrguitplayr]

I thought this was an April Fools thing then I searched it out.

"Increase your gigs, as the BAG9 will give you access to play funerals, parades, battle fields and any number of drunk bar gigs on St Patrick’s day."

 

[gitold]

Electro-Harmonix announces the BAG9 Bagpipe Machine! What’s under the kilt? Why it’s the new BAG9 Bagpipe Machine featuring 9 great bagpipe sounds guaranteed to haunt and disturb your family, friends and neighbors!

No guitarist should be without one!

I got one but it didn’t play well with my BadMonkey.

 

[tvvoodoo]

In combination with this? Fuggaddaboudit!

 

[BrazHog]

I guess "Chibson USA" don't post on April 1st, because of all their competition already does.

 

[Boreas]

Would this be placed in the chain before or after my banjo pedal?

 

[ce24]

And the accordian pedal next in the chain

 

[Maguchi]

Electro-Harmonix announces the BAG9 Bagpipe Machine! What’s under the kilt? Why it’s the new BAG9 Bagpipe Machine featuring 9 great bagpipe sounds guaranteed to haunt and disturb your family, friends and neighbors!

No guitarist should be without one!

Is this a April Fool's joke?

 

[richiek65]

Is this a April Fool's joke?

2nd year it's been rolled out

 

[FenderGyrl]

Imagine the possibilities.... Its A Long Way, To The Top If Ya Wanna Rock & Roll.

 

[MarkieMark]

Is it just me? Or have 4/1bits fallen to a new low?

 

[Refugee]

Well, like how many times has any owner used the Ravish pedal EHX put out?

 

[eclecticsynergy]

Well, like how many times has any owner used the Ravish pedal EHX put out?

I play once in a while with a guy who loves the Ravish pedal.

I tried out the Mel9 myself and didn't like it much. Too bright to use with a guitar amp, plus exaggerated Korglike midrange and a weird vibrato on every single mode except Orchestra. Almost considered keeping it just for that one sound, but its footprint was too big for my boards.

There was one other serious design flaw: it provides a Dry out, to carry unaffected guitar out to other pedals. And it has an Effect out with separate dry & effect volume controls, so you can set it to have only Mellotron in that output. Makes sense, right? But in bypass mode, dry signal always appears at both outputs. So it's impossible to run that Effect output into a separate channel EQ'd for the mellotron sounds, because that jack carries guitar whenever you kick the pedal off.

It could be done by leaving the pedal engaged all the time, and using a MIDI controlled programmable mixer to mute or enable the mellotron sounds. But that's way too much complication. All they had to do was have the Effect out carry effect only when the Dry out is being used. Kinda surprised this got overlooked - since they went to the trouble of including a Dry output, somebody must've suggested that at some point an effect-only output would be useful.

 

[radiocaster]

In combination with this? Fuggaddaboudit!

That seems like a topic which would be thoroughly discussed on forums.

 

[Mark617]

Rumor has it, the triangle pedal comes out in July