TEACHING MACHINES
FuzzBillion
$580.00 USD The first and probably the last of the electronic devices
to create audio flatulence ...Just dial in all 11 controls
& you instantly get a sound even a Shoegazer would
be challenged to use.CONCLUSION __
___WTF were they thinking of!!!!If the average player can not find a greatsound from a pedal in 5 or 10 minutes maxit is on its way to the grave yard.
It takes 1 minute on a Muff or a Tone Bender
& that's with the lights off on a dark stage.
$100.00 USD NUXTUTTI
Exploring the layout tells its story. You get Dry, that blends
your guitar signal with you octave one. UP/BSP, it adjusts
level for octave up plus lets you crate a split point where
note higher then the setting do not trigger the octave. SUB
is the level for the bass octave sound. A toggle switches
from standard Poly mode or Bass or you can set the
footswitch to momentary.
CONCLUSION __
It has very good natural sound. It does not sound
synth like, but guitar like. Lag time is unnoticeable.
Tracking is dead on. Sonically it is up there with
the very best!!! The price is totally reasonable.
ABSOLUTELY NOT !!!!
BEHRINGER SUES BOSS
___ Check it out on THE UPDATER Post!!!
BALTIMORE SONIC RESEARCH INSTITUDE
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If this company was a Cancer Research Institute their next
$240.00 USD
big announcement would be that cigarettes cause cancer, lol.
In short these guys are laying the hype on with a trowel.
They could win back some respect if they changed the
name to Baltimore Sonics Flying Circus.The layout is Volume, Texture messes with the BIAS.
Voice, which is a Tilt EQ so you do not lose all your lows by pushing up your highs. and Attack allows going from a near
clean click from your pick to something softer but still with
some grit. The Range switch works with Texture as a kind of quantity off ...control. The Depth switch gives you
dynamics over saturation. the Mode toggle appears to your clipping diode options. This pedal uses a transformer on
the input for faux dynamics & sag. Nice!
CONCLUSION ___
It is the yet another of the never ending OpAmp wondertoys.
It has very much a silicon vibe to it and is more Muff than
Tone Bender. That said there are few basic sounds especially
the gnarly ones that I find very appealing. The thing is once
you scoot pass $200.00 USD you want some Oh f.ing WOW!!!
I am not wowing this one.
For those in the poverty bracket I again strongly suggest
a $35.00 USD GOKKO AUDIO JK-61 Mogwai with its OD
or Fuzz magic toggle.
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$105.00 USD
AFFORDABOARD800 Drive
Yes, actually made in the UK, and very affordable.
A Marshall JCM800-in-a-Box. The layout is simple,Volume, Gain and Tone.__CONCLUSION __Yes it also comes in black. It sounds damn good.
It is very similar to Marshalls own $160.00 USD
JCM800 pedal. The Marshall does have a bit
more bite and the lows have some serious balz.
$280.00 USD ONE CONTROL
Dyna Red DIST v.4
Designed by Bjorn Juhl over 20 years ago. He licensed it to 3
companies over that time. Bearfoot under 2 owners in 2 different
cities then to One Control in Japan. It is quite simply his take on
a MIAB. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble and Presence.
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CONCLUSION __This is v.4. The guy simple has a good ear.How close it is to the amp be damned. Thepedal has been around forever becauseit simply sounds killer!!!
$175.00 USD CD
COLLISION DEVICES FZThis French based company merely announces it is a Gated Fuzz, WTF, LOLIt is however a clone of a Maestro Boss Tone which uses 4 cascading silicon transistors. The Gated is created by starving the voltage source. The layout is Volume, Gain and Gate.
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CONCLUSION __
It makes a very good nasty sound. Thanks to the cascading transistors you can get some low thru
to high gain sounds. In short it is not just a single sweet spot unit. That said we all find a single
sound on are dirt pedals and tend to move
nothing but the volume from tune to tune, lol.
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CB PAINT LATE 1900s REVERBERATOR
$250.00 USD In the 80's new small companies sprung up to service the project studios needing Verbs &/or Delays. At first there were the racks.
In fact I have the Alesis Quad Reverb and later half racks like the Microverb.Primarily simple devices with a handful of sounds. What they lacked
in specs they made up for in character. In fact the big studios all
bought them too and kept their pricy units for Vocals.The layout is Tone, Onset (it delays the Verb coming on),
Mix (your wet dry mix) and 6 verb voices.
CONCLUSION __
It is well done and very effective. It is however
neither high-tech sonics nor classic like a Spring
or Plate both of which can be found for around
half the $$$.
DIRTY BOY
SilverBOY
The company are infamous for making odd analog pedals by coming to the idea through the back door. This is for intent & purpose a MIAB but the voice was emulated by using the
$475.00 USD
sound of modelers digital version. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Mids and Bass. Variac adds sag and saturation. There
is a secondary output that is voiced to sound like a cab.
CONCLUSION ___
Once you put the pretensions and gimmicky bullsh@t
aside to have a basic MIAB analog pedal. This one
checks all the boxes and has an overall very pleasing earthy organic sound with a lot of character.The price is obscene. There pedals or
even better for half this.
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