It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
But we (finally) got out and gigged today, so I do have a bit of an update.
Firstly, I used the Black Sunn with the Model T preamp whacked up a bit for a core crunch tone, and TBH it was great. Maybe a bit lacking in graunchy mids with the Deluxe, but that's as much the amp as the pedals. The Rat side added some seriously great sizzle and sustain, and I was pretty happy with those two. I also used the AMT S-Drive which - as I moaned previously - just has too much gain for the purpose, and it ends up sounding a bit smeary and undefined. For someone with a different technique and guitar (and amp) it might be spot on, but it doesn't like my heavy right hand and by-the-bridge picking.
Solar Bender got a short run out for a raucous intro but nothing core. Fat Boost almost nothing. What I did discover (or re-discover) was that the Deluxe has a modded second channel (not footswitchable) but with a bit of judicious jiggling of my board and the excellent Fulltone ABY, I could access that channel. So in the end I used the Deluxe as I would use the bigger Heartbreaker, effectively as a switcher.
I haven't gigged that Deluxe before today. I am tempted to say that it lacked the stones to compete in a loud rock band, but until I hear the sound back from the FoH video, I don't know. On stage, I thought I was a bit tame once all the drive kicked in, but I could hear quite well in the clean passages. I'd have loved to be able to fit the HB and the 4x10 cab on that stage, but I'd have had to stand on it to play.
Maybe also the rocket Tim pierce pedal... I really like that one.
Criminally overlooked, a top quality, great sounding pedal, and matches the initial requirements perfectly…
So this is us.
It's a bit hard to hear what's going on because despite having the rather useful Beecaster thing on the floor in front of the band, we hadn't plugged the bastard thing in. We're also missing the proper singer, so I'm reading the words off the old album sleeve!
My point is that I'd probably like to be just that bit fatter and firmer (in the guitar sounds, I don't think being any fatter physically would be a good idea).
For those interested, the ludicrous fuzz sound is the Magnetic Effects Solar Bender, the mid-gain is the Black Sunn Model T, and the more gain is the Rat (in the same pedal). I don't think I use the S-Drive. The solo sound in Renegade is the more driven channel of the Deluxe, although it sounds like some knobs got twisted before that, because it's a bit plinky and bluesy rather than full-on 70s rawk.
https://youtu.be/QdscFtAKGJw
Most of the demos are from ambient players but the band sounds like this
https://youtu.be/sKHawjBPaxU