Ahh man, I took that microdose (~30ug of ALD-52) and it's perfect. Waiting for my girl and her mom still and I started playing with my delay pedal again and figured some shit out. This is the most fun thing ever, if you're playing music by yourself.
i've actually started using my delay pedal (just a nice simple boss DD3) for the first time in years.
since i got the amp i use now (real nice english class A valve amp) i completely stopped using effect boxes because i didn't want to muddy the amazing warm crunchy analog goodness of the amp.
it's
that perfect - like, i've had a lot of guitars and a lot of amps but never found the perfect tone - until i got this amp, then my gretsch.
i think i got the amp in 2009 - so it's been a while since i dusted off my stomp boxes!
so i stopped using any pedals, which made setting up for gigs really easy - just plug in and tune-up, which any working musician can probably appreciate
buy now i'm playing with a bunch more people, and composing - and jamming - a lot, it's nice to have a bag of tricks to reach into.
i just have a few - tremelo, delay, chorus, fuzz (russian big muff) and i also have an mxr 'blue box' octave fuzz pedal i've not used much, but have mainly used with my drum machine to make it sound rougher and glitchy.
playing without using effects became almost a source of pride after a while, but i'm not against them. i just found that dropping them gave me a lot of interesting room to play around, because i am a pretty experimental guitarist at times, but i don't need to use effects to get wild sounds out of my guitar - i find overdriven, overheated vavevs and controlled feedback give me a heap of aural textures to work with - and pedals can only complicate things, or be a distract.
i really love the sounds i can get out of that amp/guitar combo, and got to really know how to do interesting stuff with feedback and resonance. it's almost like altering the wave forms on a synthesiser or something - and now, when i add something like delay, after years of using this magical combination of amp + guitar onstage and in the studio, it's pretty entertaining - for me at least :D
i'd never had a hollow body electric before, but i'm a total convert. the tone - and the sustain - of my guitar still blows me away - and i've had that for 7 or 8 years as well.
i don't think having good instruments necessarily makes you a better player - but if you
can okay a bit, they surely open up a world of possibilities. it's a pretty beautiful thing, to make the sort of sounds you've always dreamed of.
my amp has a nice spring reverb and a killer overdrive channel (with an on/off switch) - and those two "effects" are more than enough.
i'll have a look at what recordings we have online and maybe send you a link...
also - good luck with the phenibut kick. it sounds kinda rough.
that stuff never really ddi much for me, and frankly i'm kinda thankful of that fact. i'm not very good at being self-disciplined when it comes to easily-available legal things like that, which can become quite a problem...
withdrawals are awful in any regard, but GABAergic WDs don't sound like fun.
take care of yourself man
) whirring delay feedback, then i'd switch settings send it off on another tangent. in the end it didn't sound anything like piano.
Most of the time it takes people a moment or three to understand the joke. I tell them the delay before getting it is part of the meta of the joke, but it's really just a bad joke. 
