Providene Effects from Japan coming to bmusic

[guitarsatbmusic]

We're pretty excited to be the first store in Australia to bring Providence pedals, switching systems and cables in from Japan. I was put on to these by a friend in Europe who distributes them and they approached us after his recomendation. Discussions commenced, and in the interim I had told our "gear review" superstar friend here Burgs of them. He wrote to them and received their famed SOV-2 Stampede to review. After his glowing assessment to me I sealed the deal to bring them in.


Whilst all this was going on Providence had been speaking to Steve Lukather to try some of their gear. They were able to hook up with Luke a few days ago and here's their coverage of it from Providence News Page



And more about the pedal tryout was sent through this evening:

I would like to send you a detailed report by Yuki Hayashi (cheif enginner of Pacifix (Providence's company)) who actually supported Luke and Craig(tech) technically for this big event.

First of all, Luke tried the Providence Cable S102. He said that the cables he is now using are not flexible and hard to use and he checked the flexibility of the Providence cables. He immediately said this is OK.
He had already used the patch P203 so I asked him where did he got it and he said that he borrowed them from Robben Ford!! Craig, his tech said "This cable is nice and I like the purple color". Therefore, Luke and Craig used P203 immediately without any trial.

Next was Velvt Comp.
Luke checked his guitar tone by turning the compressor pedal on and off several times. He tried turning the volume up and down with the volume pedal and he tried all the tone characteristics from clean to crunch to lead by switching the amp channels. Then, he said "This is great! Put this pedal before the amp!", and the VLC-1 was connected directly to his amp input and left on, and he used the compressor pedal for the whole show.

Then, Luke said that "Let's try the Chorus pedal "so I set the pedal up with Craig for Luke.
Then, as soon as he tried it, he said "This is good. Let's use this." and he tried it for a while. He played many phrases we had listened to many times in the past so I became entranced listening to him play.
He tried the Delay 80's next. He especially liked the Echo Hardness feature and he set it for short delay and turned down the Echo Hardness, then he set up an echo sound similar to a round reverb sound. He carefully adjusted the knobs repeatedly standing up to play and then squatting down to make more adjustments.

Luke said that he would use the pedals that night so I and Craig immediately set them up for Luke.
The signal chain was Guitar > Wah　>　Vol　Pedal　>　TS-9　>　Anadime　Chorus　>　TU-2 (Tuner）　>　VELVET　COMP　>　JCM2000　INPUT.
The Delay 80's (short delay) was connected in series with a BOSS Digital Delay in the send and return of the JCM2000. The Velvet Comp was connected directly to the input of the amp.

After setting everything up, Luke checked the sound again and he said "Really nice guitar tone, thank you very much." It was a great pleasure for me!! ...by Yuki

Other artists you may be familiar with on the Providence list are Chris and Michael Amott, Anders Hammer, Marios Iliopoulos and Olof Morck, Carl Verheyen, Gus G., Inoran, Dan Spitz, Sugizo, Robben Ford and many more.

We will be listing the Providence pedals on bmusic.com.au over the next few days and the first shipment should be here in about a week!

[KH Guitar Freak]

I can attest to the fact that those Providence cables are actually good value for money...

Edit: Fark mate, can you PM me the price for one Providence Anadime???

[guitarsatbmusic]

I'll probably have all the pricing worked out today or tomorrow mate. Will post here when they're up.

[tim613]

They sound AWESOME!

[guitarsatbmusic]

Pedals up http://www.bmusic.com.au/category42_1.htm
And the first three of the routing series to arive http://www.bmusic.com.au/category634_1.htm

[Burgs]

For those interested, I posted a VLC-1 'Velvet Compressor' video yesterday.



A DLY-83 video should go up tonight.

[guitarsatbmusic]

Outstanding Burgs, thanks for posting. I can see why Lukather was so taken with that one. The EBMM a nod or coincidental?

[guitarsatbmusic]

Burgs' DLY-83 Clip


Had some fun with the HOLD function man?

[guitarsatbmusic]

This one's outstanding!

Three thumbs up again Burgs

[Burgs]

Outstanding Burgs, thanks for posting. I can see why Lukather was so taken with that one. The EBMM a nod or coincidental?

I'm a 'National' Ernie Ball Music Man endorser. And I have no idea what that means! Heheh. Cheap axes I guess.

[guitarsatbmusic]

Congrats on going "national"

[Burgs]

More Providence clips, fellas.

Anadime Chorus (With Delay 80's)



Phase Force (with SOV-2 and Delay 80's)



Heat Blaster Distortion (with Delay 80's)



Sonic Overdrive (with Delay 80's)



The Delay 80's is over. Gone. Finished. If you can find one, buy it, because they're already racking up silly prices. In the week of May 7-9 Providence will unveil the successor to the Delay 80's - the 'Chrono Delay'. This one is designed by Atsuki Saito, the same dude who engineered the Delay 80's. It features Tap Tempo but that's all I know about it. I'll be demoing a pre-production model in a couple of weeks, apparently.

As you were.

[ShockMe.au]

Outstanding demos.

[guitarsatbmusic]

That's some selection, great demos indeed. Made me actually want to get the pedals out and play with them some more!

[Fikealox]

Wow, those are some amazing sounding pedals. I think they've given me the pedal gas bug again