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A bit of history is in order. Lovepedal was created by Sean Michael's with the idea that less is more. If the circuit is no more than what's needed the sound will not get smeared and twisted by going down too many pathways. Some of their pedals really do sound good when the results are allowed to be impressionistic but when aimed from the beginning too specific they fail badly. On one project the pedal was meant to be SRV's Super Reverb I bought one and was 110% disappointed.
The Amp 11 has been accused of being a Timmy Clone The Timmy started a frenzy with all makers to
actuallysimply make a better Tube Screamer. Most started with a the ts topography and went from there.
The layout is Volume, Gain, Bass and Treble. A simple Boost which has its own level and a toggle for
2 levels of gain. The 2 extra switches do suggest the 2 switches that are hidden inside a Timmy, lol.
They are meant to voice the pedal to match up the owners rig that may be too dark or too bright
to get the best from the pedal. They are very subtle and few if anyone touches them.
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Once again everyone steals from everyone. In the end other than satisfying our
curiosityit all addsup to...does it sound good. Many pedals sound great cheap
or pricey.As long as wedo notlisten with your eyeballs we can get good sounds
at any price. On a final notethis clone has been around for 6 years.
A company that has been around since 2007 and has won many awards including best in show. This is well research match to the original 1966 Fuzz Face with NOS NKT75 germanium transistors. The layout is Volume and Gain. What else??? It is enough.
Famous for their crazy Fuzz pedals and their cool artwork that I am sure doubles the price comes a modulation pedal, a Phaser. It is definitely not
your grandads MXR P90 .
It looks complex but it is basically 2 Phasers in one. It has Rate as do all Phasers and Depth as do most. Its specialty's are adding ramp effects which is in this case morphing between each side. It also has resonance ...think of a bit of fixed Wha. In short a generous helping of Star Wars & Shoegaze.
If you strum a chord into a looper than turn the looper
on and let it repeat over and over forever through a modeler the chord will play the 100% accurate same sound every time to infinity. If you then play that looper through a tube amp it will not repeat that first sound
until it is repeated about 1.3 million times. FACT!
The term a tube that burnt out is an apt description. A tube is like a candle's flame constantly burning and we can all see that it never stays the same shape for a moment. A tube creates an audio experience but like the candle its shape too is never the same.
A modeled sound is like a photograph of the Mona Lisa.
It will always be second rate compared to the painting.
Not a lot about this European company. Even less about the pedal. It apparently is using transistors instead of OpAmps which is in general bonus. The Layout is Boost, Gain and Level The switches are preset voices with levels of saturation, lows, etc.
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The labels are needless baffle gab. The jacks being all down one side
area great way to show the world you too can as builder be
part of the problem instead of the solution.
It produces a same old. You like it or not. The pedal sounds good but
the pretentious stab of the maker at trying to be Oscar Wilde is about as welcomed as finding that the washroom at the mall has run out of toilet paper after you just had a very messy and unpleasant dump.
This pedal uses NAM modeling It may be misleading but I put this in the category of Profiling which in effect is a digital snapshot of
an amp set to specific sound. Modeling creates the sound based on components of the amp just like a house uses and mortar to build its walls. NAM captures a real amp in a Profile but it samples its whole range of sound. It's major handicap is it can not be modified. What you get is it. You can EQ it but only like you would do on an external studio board. In short the sound itself is unchanged. If you like what you hear it will be as close to perfect as perfect gets.
It will not miss or misshape the tiniest thing. It does not have what I think of as digital mud a kind of smearing of some of the harmonic details and overtones. It also has near zero lag time.
It appears it will have an IR loader, an EQ, Compressor, Reverb
Noise gate and Tuner with software for both phones & Computers.
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It is a wait and see. I suspect it will show up at
When I started playing in the mid 60's I had a Harmony Rocket and a one knob National amp, lol. There was a club within walking distance near my house. I could go there Friday night and watch Rock-a-Billy and Blues bands. I was introduced to tunes by Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, Eddie Cochran, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry where they have impact ...LIVE!!!
Even on some nights I saw Robbie Robertson who's main gig was in Ronnie Hawkins. The Hawks. All the players played a faded white Tele with a maple fretboard. Mostly 50's that the guys bought as very affordable used guitars. They sold for about $175.00 to $200.00 for a near mint one. I was not allowed in but I could climb up onto the roof. I lowered myself down to
a ledge and could watch and hear the bands through an open window. Eventually I was seen from the stage but the guys were cool. No one
ratted me out and so the owners never came out and ask me to leave.
I can also remember at that time coming out of a barber shop and watching guys unload for a gig
beside the barber at a cafe/pub. The singer guitarist had just only an hour earlier scooped an
Esquire and he was dying to show someone so asking him what he had was heaven for both
of us. I got to hold my first Pro guitar.
...the guy at the barber shop had his Esquire in the trunk of a 55 Ford painted pink & black. I remember thinking... I wanted both the guitar and the car, LOL
Third man claim that the pedal was created by Donner by marrying their Pearl Tremor Phaser and Yellow Fall Delay and
a ? Distortion mini pedal. Total bull. Donner have never made anything. They go to other smallcompanies and find cool things and get those companies to put Donner on the product and sell that. The 2 mini pedals are the Mooer 90 Orange Phaser and the Mooer Ana Echo analog delay. Mooer will put your name on a pedal if you order a few thousand. To date they have done that for 34 companies.
Go to my very first Post Dec 30,2015 ...WHERE TO BUY CHEAP. I have a list of every one. On the day I wrote it I told every one to buy Donner because I didn't know better. A year later I deleted that part and told everyone to buy other brands that were also Mooer but cheaper than Donner. I have kept it up to date for the last 10 years.
Since the recession Mooer now discount some of their mini pedals that they do not offer others as a rebrand. Third Man to not say what the distortion in it is and Mooer have many. So this whole pedal will have been made by Mooer. Mooer own their own very high tech factory. They make guitar electronics for many brands.
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If you like it buy it. You are only paying $30 a pedal for
it. Keep in mind you can likely get all 3 pedals separate with one or more of the other 33 companies that sell Mooer rebrands. I do not know what the Distortion sound is on the pedal but I suspect it is the Mooer Ultra Drive ...Boss DS-1 clone.
If you just want the distortion part the best deal is the Mooer clone sold as the...
The term transparent is the cliche of the day. Making a Marshall
JTM45-in-a-box is hardy new. The big but is making one that is the classic clean sound banging away on hundreds of hit records all
through the 60's. The attraction of the very earliest Marshall was
its fat but mildly Crunch sound that you could play anything on
and get a nice fat chunky sound.
The layout is Volume, Tone and Gaina toggle labeled sparkle
adds a magic touch of just right chime to the sound.
Another toggle gives 3 levels of gain.
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An excellent clean sound is never clean. It is why vintage and gourmet amps sell at such a premium. There have been a few pedals that have addressed but but I find they were antiseptic
hi-fi treatments. Not a builder with an ear for an organic
sound.This is a welcome exception.
Handmade in Ottawa On. Canada by a guy famous with stereo buffsforhis unique speaker cabs.
In short a guy that is all about quality.The Hi-Fi guys are anal about that. He must love what he
doesbecause the prices are budget level but the product is not.
In plain language an OpAmp is a chip that acts like a nano, nano clean amp. A diode is like a funnel. A lot coming in and less coming out. What comes in is squished distorting it and then compressing it at the same time. Results, sustaining dirty signal. Sending the signal in circles adds, twists and shapes thing in many ways. This allows for pedals to be designed in endless variations. The ear is 10 times more sensitive to differences than all the other senses. So we do notice differences and love one pedal over another.
OTHER WAYS
On a final note. No OpAmps required? Some dirt pedals use FET transistors that react like a real tube. Pedals can be made using them to accurately clone tube amps but it is pricey, difficult and time consuming. ALL of my favorite OD's are made that way.
BUT
A good OpAmp pedal can make great noises and be made dirt cheap,(pun intended😇). All the famous OpAmp MXR, Boss etc. pedals that were made decades ago are still made and cloned by hundreds of small builders is a testament to that.
FUZZ is FISHY
The most noticeable thing about a Fuzz is it uses very few parts.
Most amateursDIY types start with making a Fuzz because it is
The company has a reputation for excellence. It is also infamous for sticking
it to you as hard as they can for price,😇. The layout is Level, Gain, a toggle to emulate 12xAY tubes original to the amp used in the amp to the more aggressive 12AX7. Gain, Tone and Post EQ and a second EQ that are both about voicing the pedalto compensate to the amp you will be pushing it into.
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In the late 60's there were a few of the actual Fender Tweed amps around. they were reasonably priced as they were felt to be under powered and if cranked cool in some ways but too muddy to play most tunes of the day.
I played a few. I had a Fender Bassman as my under powered backup amp. I used the Bassman for demo recordings but never live. For that I had a Fender Twin.
I like this pedal big time but just to use on a few tunes my very accurate
repro of a Supro Drive pedal does me just fine.
One final word. This pedal has zero competition. In short other Tweed-in-a-Box pedals are not even in the same ballpark. In short every one I have heard for years I thought at best an interesting pedal. But for gods sake DO NOT tell me it is a f.-ing Tweed because it is not.
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