small stone
If you’re anything like me, there may be a few pieces
of gear you’ve bought more than once. You played
it, loved it, sold it for some reason, and when you
came to your senses, bought it again. The piece
of gear I’ve bought more than anything else is the
Small Stone. One of the first pedals I ever had, I
sent it to AnalogMan to have it modified to fix the
volume loss, as older versions tend to have this issue.
I loved it, but sold it because I was sure I needed
to try something else. I’m happy to say I currently
own one—again modded by AnalogMan—and it
even has the old EHX wooden box, with which I’m
obsessed. The single Rate knob and Color switch are
all I need, and to my ears, there’s nothing like the
sweet sound of the Small Stone with the color switch
engaged. The rich, luscious, and deep phasing adds
so much flavor to chords, arpeggios, and solos, and I
absolutely love it combined with some reverb. I could
play clean for days with that combination. I love that
it has one knob, one switch, and is housed in a large
metal enclosure. I love everything about it. There are
several versions of the Small Stone, and they mostly
do the same thing, with the differences being that
some of them have true bypass and some don’t. EHX
currently produces the Nano Small Stone, which I
also purchased. It’s a great pedal, but the only one
I really use is the original big box version. It does
everything from slow, subtle whooshes to wild ray
gun sounds, and it will never leave my pedalboard
again.
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