Emma Onomatopoeia

djspecialist

Has anyone tried one of these?  Thomann is currently knocking them out at a rather tempting 47 EUR:

https://m.thomann.de/gb/emma_omp_1_onomatopoeia.htm

Sassafras

It's a nice pedal. Not a load of volume till you crank the gain up but at 47 euros it would be churlish no to.
You can never have too many drive pedals.

meltedbuzzbox

So I ordered mine on the day @djspecialist posted this. 
It's here already (I ordered at 10pm!). 
Its fucking brilliant. For £50 I feel like I have robbed someone. Genuinely blown away by this pedal. 

lincolnblue

Just bought one. 

impmann

Ditto

Flanging_Fred

I need another dirt pedal like I need a hole in my head but just out of curiosity, is it obviously comparible to other dirt pedals? The youtube clips sound nice and it seems not ro be tubescreamer based.

Just out of curiosity you understand?

Nope, at all interested. No GAS here etc etc...

meltedbuzzbox

*Disclaimer - the opinions expressed by this user should not be entertained. meltedbuzzbox does not accept any culpability for your experience with said pedal, however I think you will easily make your money back on ebay if it goes tits up. 

impmann

meltedbuzzbox said:

*Disclaimer - the opinions expressed by this user should not be entertained. meltedbuzzbox does not accept any culpability for your experience with said pedal, however I think you will easily make your money back on ebay if it goes tits up. 

Never seen that streak of yellow in you before, chap... ;-)

meltedbuzzbox

impmann said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

*Disclaimer - the opinions expressed by this user should not be entertained. meltedbuzzbox does not accept any culpability for your experience with said pedal, however I think you will easily make your money back on ebay if it goes tits up. 

Never seen that streak of yellow in you before, chap... ;-)

:-) I just dont want to be the catalyst of blame :-D

tone1

I've just ordered one 

djspecialist

I'm looking forward to sending this thread to Thomann and claiming my commission

thomasw88

so how you using it then?   as a booster or a light/medium overdrive.  does it stack well?

djspecialist

meltedbuzzbox said: 

Its fucking brilliant. For £50 I feel like I have robbed someone. Genuinely blown away by this pedal. 

I'd be interested in hearing how you compare it with the Hudson Broadcast.  Mine (Peach 24V magenta dual switch) is almost always on - so I'm interested in other pedals which might complement it in some way.

Sunburst

I've just ordered one too, inevitably.  Absolutely no objective need for another drive pedal, and yet at checkout I seriously considered getting two.  I am unwell.

meltedbuzzbox

djspecialist said:

meltedbuzzbox said: 

Its fucking brilliant. For £50 I feel like I have robbed someone. Genuinely blown away by this pedal. 

I'd be interested in hearing how you compare it with the Hudson Broadcast.  Mine (Peach 24V magenta dual switch) is almost always on - so I'm interested in other pedals which might complement it in some way.

How do you have the gain set on your broadcast?
I have mine at 12 o'clock. Which gives me a light sparkle and a bit of drive when I dig in.
I find the Emma pedal has a lot more dynamic response.
I love both equally though. Love both sides of the broadcast, from sparkle to hooligan and I love what the Emma does. 

lincolnblue

Mine arrived at work today. Looking forward to trying it out

tone1

Mine’s just arrived...

clarkefan

Thomann's website is useless, no clue what it's supposed to do or sound like, bit rubbish if you've never heard of the thing.  So is it like an SD-1 or something? 

lincolnblue

I had a bit of time to try out the pedal last night. It's very good! The saturation control is brilliant for flavouring the drive & anything from clean to almost fuzzy tones. I feel it'll need a bit of time to get used to it but I am impressed!

djspecialist

meltedbuzzbox said:

How do you have the gain set on your broadcast?

I have mine at 12 o'clock. Which gives me a light sparkle and a bit of drive when I dig in.

I tend to have all four knobs around the 9 - 11 o'clock mark.  Like you, I aim for almost clean when played lightly (using humbuckers).  I have fiddled with the internal trimmers though - so the position of the external gain knob may not tell the whole story.

Reading the comments on here, I do slightly wish I'd gone for an Emma before Thomann apparently sold out.  That said, I have a Liquid Sunshine incoming which I think may be in the same ballpark, so I should be pretty well sorted for low-gain gritty drives  

tone1

Jury’s out on mine... almost no gain, just volume boost and certainly no fuzz territory