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28 minutes ago, dcbc said:

My drive pedals off the top of my head: 

1983 TS9 (this is one of the later ones that had a Panasonic chip in it).  It sounded good, but I got the analog man 808 vintage mod with an old JRC4558D, and it sounds absolutely divine now.

Reissue TS808 with Analogman Silver mod.  This one isn't quite so mid humped and sounds a bit more "hifi."

Timmy V2.  Almost always the last drive in my chain.

Bearfoot Honey Bee.  I need to play with this one more.  I still haven't figured out how best to use it.

Barber Gain Changer.  This is a good one.  Plays really well with everything. 

Catalinbread SFT.  This actually is an Ampeg in the box foundation.  But it's a great drive, particularly in front of my low power tweed twin for instant 70s Stones.

You are making my poor little tube screamer mini feel inadequate (though I did just get a ceriatone centura off reverb to test it this week). 

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11 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:


The intro has never been played without a wah. It’s actually illegal.

I believe the crime is referred to as "murder." 

 

But if you were going to do it, you'd have to be in a joint with chicken wire in front of the stage.

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15 minutes ago, sidis said:

You are making my poor little tube screamer mini feel inadequate (though I did just get a ceriatone centura off reverb to test it this week). 

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I've heard nothing but good things about how the TSmini sounds. 

 

I've found the combo of a TS into an older Timmy (haven't played the MXR version) to be really fantastic.

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5 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I've heard nothing but good things about how the TSmini sounds. 

 

I've found the combo of a TS into an older Timmy to be really fantastic.

if you want to hear what the mini ts sounds like, the second half (the power chug) of the golden crashes track i just put up in the share your music thread is comp->TSmini->Big Muff (with admittedly a decent amount of post-processing).  the dreamy first half is the comp->ethereal (my fav pedal that is a combo delay/reverb).

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14 minutes ago, sidis said:

if you want to hear what the mini ts sounds like, the second half (the power chug) of the golden crashes track i just put up in the share your music thread is comp->TSmini->Big Muff (with admittedly a decent amount of post-processing).  the dreamy first half is the comp->ethereal (my fav pedal that is a combo delay/reverb).

I have pretty much no experience with a Big Muff, but I think it is doing most of the heavy lifting in what I'm hearing on that track.  Or, put another way, I can't hear a tube screamer in the second half of the track.  But who cares, whatever you're doing sounds great!

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11 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I have pretty much no experience with a Big Muff, but I think it is doing most of the heavy lifting in what I'm hearing on that track.  Or, put another way, I can't hear a tube screamer in the second half of the track.  But who cares, whatever you're doing sounds great!

no doubt that the fuzz defines the tone but fwiw, the fender amp settings were precisely the same on the plucks at the beginning as they were in the chug and despite some compression in the mix/master that occurred normalizing it quite a bit, it felt a billion times louder without losing clarity.

eta: thanks by the way.

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19 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I have pretty much no experience with a Big Muff, but I think it is doing most of the heavy lifting in what I'm hearing on that track.  Or, put another way, I can't hear a tube screamer in the second half of the track.  But who cares, whatever you're doing sounds great!

 

This is a pure Muff here, with a CS-2. It's the same track that has the trem in the intro I posted for noharley. It's a black Russian, the Muffs can be a good bit different. @sidis has a newer one on his board.

 

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6 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I love all types of fuzz in other people's rigs.  I've never been able to get it to work with what I play and how I play. 

This is how I feel about Fender amps.  It's not that I don't think they can sound glorious, it's just that they don't sound glorious when *I* use them.  

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6 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I love all types of fuzz in other people's rigs.  I've never been able to get it to work with what I play and how I play. 

 

It's funny you should say that, because I pulled that Muff out of storage about a year ago, and I cannot get it to sound right. EHX is notorious for crap builds, so I don't know if something in the pedal is failing or not, or if it's the way I play now, or maybe the setup. That clip is about 25 years old, so it's stretching my memory a bit, but I know it was the Muff into a Classic 50 clean channel with the master dimed, and a touch of reverb. I would have thought I could have gotten close with the 5F6A, but it wasn't happening so I took the Muff out of the rack. I play that part with a CS2, OD808 and DD3 through my BF Bassman these days whenever it comes up.

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

 

It's funny you should say that, because I pulled that Muff out of storage about a year ago, and I cannot get it to sound right. EHX is notorious for crap builds, so I don't know if something in the pedal is failing or not, or if it's the way I play now, or maybe the setup. That clip is about 25 years old, so it's stretching my memory a bit, but I know it was the Muff into a Classic 50 clean channel with the master dimed, and a touch of reverb. I would have thought I could have gotten close with the 5F6A, but it wasn't happening so I took the Muff out of the rack. I play that part with a CS2, OD808 and DD3 through my BF Bassman these days whenever it comes up.

It's got silicone transistors in it.  They don't seem to be subject to needing a bias knob like germanium chips do.  Having owned some old EHX pedals, did you give it a good kick and a shake?  That always got my old Small Stone to behave a little bit longer.

 

I swear, EHX should build a pedal called "What's that Rattle?"  It could just be a buffer in an oversized, unfinished enclosure.  It could have a switch on it to set it to shock you when you touch it, just for nostalgia's sake.

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1 hour ago, sidis said:

well, i really like my (new build) big muff a whole bunch so...

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Either the "404 - Image not found!" is the joke, or it's unintended irony.

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1 hour ago, sidis said:

ugh, fixed.  less impact now though. :( 

Ha!  That's awesome.  I've had some great ones.  And my Small Stone nano isn't going anywhere.  The back plate is held on with a zip tie.

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ThorpyFX fallout cloud is the best Muff-style pedal that I've personally used.  I like it even more than the Analogman fuzz that cost twice as much (and I subsequently sold).

We are definitely living in a golden era of pedals, with products from multinational corporations, from dudes on college football forums, and from everyone in-between... literally around the globe.  Not only that, buyers can audition them on YouTube and have them arrive at the front door in a couple days.

It occurs to me that you could have eight or ten guys with pretty big pedalboards and have no pedal appear in more than one rig, and all of those chains could have a tuner, compressor, gain (or three), fuzz, wah, phaser, chorus, delay, reverb -- and each one of them could be just fantastic.  

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On 3/2/2023 at 10:13 AM, sidis said:

(though I did just get a ceriatone centura off reverb to test it this week). 

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Honestly, sounds pretty good. Quite the boost. 

In the name of science, I think @Horn Dogg should send his klon over to me so that a proper A/B/X comparison can be done for the ultimate determination of any material difference based on the board’s review. I’ll send him back whichever one the board determines sounds better. ;) 

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19 minutes ago, sidis said:

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Honestly, sounds pretty good. Quite the boost. 

In the name of science, I think @Horn Dogg should send his klon over to me so that a proper A/B/X comparison can be done for the ultimate determination of any material difference based on the board’s review. I’ll send him back whichever one the board determines sounds better. ;) 

I’ll send 9.95 for my subscription to the writeup too!

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Without clicking I new what this bump was about. 😂

But Josh is right, listing that pedal for $650 is not the same as it selling for $650. This story works better as a cautionary tale of how too many guitarists rely too much on popular opinion and not their own ears.

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NPD on Tues. Been looking for a reverb pedal with more ambient options than what I have, but didn't want to go full Strymon $$$$ and the huge footprint. Them Strymon does this.

Love the stuff at the 6:30 more with the tap pedal and freezing the sound. You can also save one sound in the pedal and another one in the pedal to toggle back and forth.

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