Palmer Custom FX
THE SOLARIST
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| $200.00 USD |
The Fuzz Face is a simple perhaps even crude circuit. It is to a great degree problematic if you want a nice smooth even reliable electronic road from the guitar to your amp without
flying off that road and having the signal bounce and shake on the shoulders and maybe even go into the ditch.
Fuzz fanatics love learning to control these Fuzz pedals by their touch and by changing the level of output from their guitars volume to deliberately create near catastrophes yet not total crash and burn.
Many builders design problems out, others believe it or not add to them for more excitement. Palmer let you dial in or out that control. In short you can stabilize or destabilize the sound.
You may love for example the sound you get by turning down
your guitars volume. Getting that right on the fly is an art.
With this pedal you can dial it in on Fuzz itself so
it is in the sweet spot the second you turn on the pedal.
...The layout is easiest explained in broad strokes
-Switches let you choose the type of transistors used. Germanium for a
warm grainy sound or Silicon for a tight dense sound.
-The Input Knobs act like your guitars volume control allowing you to preset how loud the signal going in is.
-BIAS knobs set how much juice the circuit gets, less makes the sound growl, or spit or sputter.
-Bass/EQ controls are tone.
-The Pickup Simulator controls other pedals in your chain that may be sending low impedance signals from messing with a circuit that is high impedance and unlike most pedals can not ignore them.
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CONCLUSION
If you were confused with all that blah, blah I just wrote, ...cheer up it took me years to understand it and at times I had it wrong for long periods of time. One reason there are so many different Fuzz pedals is each maker decides if he was his Fuzz so in control that it can pass as a Metal style Overdrive or does he want some crazy sh@t left alone or perhaps fixed to not go overboard.
I have the Solid Gold FX if 6 was 9 that is similar to this pedal. I have it dialed into a fairly
tight sound and never change it. I get my perfect personal sound but if one knob was
bumped out of place I would have to go to a chart of my settings to find and fix.
So my final word is it is an admirable unit priced fairly.
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Yeah this pedal is definitely not for me but I really appreciate the idea of adding an input knob with the more common bias knob. A little surprised, with this level of control, that there's only a bass and not a tone knob.
ReplyDeleteIt is a Fuzz Face. There isn't a tone control in that kind of circuit. Adding EQ would be equivalent of a separate pedal added. I have had 3 different f.f. and my current Solid Gold FX has 5 knobs and a toggle but no EQ. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's right, that makes sense!
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