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Christopher Ventor has been around and under the radar for years. He currently offers 7 pedals. All are dirt pedals. All are hand made point to point old school made with cherry picked components that are the best of what is what is new or NOS.
The Robert is named after Robert Fripp who in '69 created both the classic Metal sound and Prog Rock all in one band King Crimson. Robert used a '66 Burns Buzzaround.
It sounded half Tone Bender yet had that wall of sound Big Muff thing happening. It did well but it had the potential to be the must have dirt pedal. But sh@t happens and was left flying low.
Christopher has taken that sound as his inspiration and with his own original design ideas has honed it to perfection.
We have all had the thrill when bending or doing some aggressive vibrato with an amp dimed and head our note
fluidly jump an octave higher and just scream! What a thrill.
BUT what if you had a pedal that just wants to do that
even at real world volumes????
WTF this pedal can do!!!!
How has this escaped us? It has been out for over 7 years.
Conclusion
Well C19 ...has put up walls and traps everywhere so ol' Chris has had the biz on hold but managed to get back to me so I will soon have a Robert. Yes I am all paid up and waiting!
2 weeks later:
HANDS ON
Well I just got it. It does not disappoint !!! It does all that the video shows you.
There is one big extra surprise? The tone is to die for ...it is rich and creamy and when you dig in the pedal gives you a nice little growl in a note you bend or add vibrato or whammy too.
I think a lot of guys with just an amp and a guitar they loved would go nuts over this pedal for a leads pedal ...BUY ONE!
ALL ABOUT ROBERT
The second video is unusual as it has Robert Fripp with one of dozens of King Crimson bands over the years playing 21st Century Schizoid Man.
He virtually never does his oldies. Every two years he forms a new band with new songs and they do an international tour usually hitting every continent. Fripp was one of the first artists who went independent forming his own label in 1979. He manages every aspect of the band. Most important ...the' books' lol
Listen closely to the speed and complexity of his playing. This is what Hendrix saw when watching him play in '69 ...and when asked by the media who he thought was the best Rock guitarist he said without hesitation Robert Fripp!!! Also note his sound and approach ..these days nothing unusual...BIG BUT ...listen to every hot player and band from '69'. He is the only guy doing this and having what is obviously a Metal sound....period!!! Sabbath did not come out until '70. By then if you were 'cool' you had the first Crimson LP. If you were in London you had seen them. I was in London by '71 and played in Prog Rock band Tallis. Things happened very quickly. Every Wednesday I would walk from Shepherds Bush to Hammersmith just to get the New Musical Express and Melody Maker a day early just to keep up.
Check out newer Fripp bands ...this tune is 50 years old. Fripp has worked a minimum of practising without fail every day over that 50 years. He even reheases in complete darkness.
no he is not weird. He wishes to be able to watch the audience and spontaneous react to it's vibe and to be able to conduct the band.
A lot of what I play in my power trio is not too far from style of this tune. I have added a lot of modern elements. One thing I have learnt ...Power and Flash is all very good but make sure if it wasn't there that even without it is a tune that anyone no matter what music they have always loved can still enjoy the tune!
First Sabbath album came out in February 1970 and there going for a couple years already by then too.
ReplyDeleteThanx for the heads up. I should have know as I bought it a year before I moved to London. I knew John Birch back then and in '76 he made me guitar that had Tony's PU's in it.
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