Since 2015 NEW PEDALS EVERY DAY! Over 3400 REVIEWS!
I use other reviewers vids & then critique from them __ If a pedal appears killer I buy one __ I try it out & update the Post__ If the pedal is SH@T I literally say so!__ I publish the street price a no brainer but few do. __ I save you time finding the best pedals & you get a second opinion. __OVER A MILLION VISTORS__
NO ONE OWNS ME___ I MAKE ZERO $ FROM THIS
These pedals are made by Attila. A guy in Hungry who has a day job in IT. He does several old school classics. Being in Hungry finding NOS Soviet era stock of old parts especially germanium transistors in small quantities is
not an issue to keep his nearly invisible part time biz floating. The unit is thru hole PCB construction. Basically old Boss MIJ Waza Craft tech.
The layout is Volume,Tone and Gain.
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I find zero to bitch about. the construction is old school durable and dependable. All the outside connectors are attached to the enclosure too. Even without a hands on this would be a bargain others would want around $200.00 USD. This in the NUX, Joyo pricing for a handmade.
A very basic Modeler of the profiling type. It literally records an amp or pedals sound and you have the voice. If you have a Fender amp it can clone a Marshall so it becomes your MIAB. Or, you want an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9, or a Reverb voice etc. Can it sound and respond like the exact thing. Never. But when used in context it can. Think of being fooled thinking someone is walking towards you because they are behind you and you have been fooled by a mirror.
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I very much dislike Modelers as they are like a vinyl jacket passing as leather. Vinyl does not pass up close to even looking like leather it does not form to the users body over time. It does not get a patina with age but literally tears or cracks etc.
A Modeler can sub as the real thingif you need that thing temporarily. You can try a pedal for weeks and decide it is not for you but if you
love it you can buy the real pedalwithout feeling you are making a big
mistake.It can be the world'scheapest back up amp in an emergency.
They are indeed using NOS parts. We already know it looks
the part. It is why we wanted one in the first place, LOL.
It has a credible Tone Bender switched to original and
a passable kind of Rangemaster Treble booster sound, plus a cocked Wha sound on Modern.
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I can not help but think if it were $200 we
would want one. Yes many could not budget
that, but we would want it all the same.
Sooo, in short, it really is a f.ing good deal.
You may have to pull down the tailgate
on your board to fit it in.
...count me in!!!
If you want to know the size of the Fuzz Bender. It is the size of the Muff but adding 3 of your fingers under the edge where you stand in front of it.
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...if your thing is grabbing a pedal off a bookshelf playing for an hour and then heading out for a game of golf than this will be more fun than getting new video game. If you gig in a band, or worse still, in a band doing only originals then it is a suicide wish. The pedal is about as dependable as the weather. One night it will give you the perfect sunny day, and the next you get 10 feet of snow followed by a tornado. I have an old Tone Bender with all original parts. Same deal ..same story to tell
The amp was designed with 200 watts to let Bass players keep up with a guitarist Stack, but guys like Ritchie Blackmore loved the headroom on his Strat and the power to cut no matter what. In short it became a 'thing'. On the whole pedal makers have ignored it. The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain with a toggle that you can choose an open back combo sound or a closed back Marshall cab vibe.
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It a 'budget' pedal and a Ltd Ed. only at Sweetwater. I am guessing it will sell out fast.
On one hand it is great to have something interesting to stomp so one isn't playing the same popular sounds all night. The price tag limits much risk if it doesn't fit in. On the other handit is a bit
thin and spiky.I gave in to impulse and ordered one, LOL.
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What got me is I like my Strat sounds to sound 10x more Strat than a Strat. Nothing
but chime and bell tones.
I have only ever heard that come from the King Tone Blues Power a $300.00 USD
which only ships with a pricey express company plus they nail on any local taxes or
duties which can add another hundred.
For now I have been using the CKK Electronics Anka Distortion. A take on the
Marshall JTM45/100 an amp using 2 transformers to get 100 watt from a JTM45.
Hendrix used it on his first few recordings until it was killed because the first Super
Lead Plexi arrived. The CKK nails all mids and lows perfect but not the chime. The
Keeley stacked on it should put that back in the sound.
It is not rocket science it is a Tube Screamer. The best seller is the current Ibanez TS9 which is made from off the shelf dependable but relatively cheap MIC easy to source parts. In short if they wanted to they need not do anything but buy the same parts for this pedal. The layout is Kevel,Tone and Volume. A rotary switch gives you ts9, clean boost and Turbo a Keeley mid boost mod.
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everyone should own a Tube Screamer if for no other reason
then to find out you hate it or love it but would be better if ... There are literally a thousand doing a different 'better if'
so you can go thru them all and get your version of.
Most players pick a genre at some point and play by the very, very strict though unwritten rules of it. Not necessarily a bad thing. Picasso said some of his best work was when he designed graphics for cigarette packages to pay his rent. This post is for guys like you and I that are aiming to reinvent the wheel . I do not want
to be one of the Rock greats but the guy they listen to. Do I think I can. Yes ...if I did not I would at 78 years old gave it up at 20. Will I achieve it. It is not my call.
The listeners decide not the critics.
A GUIDE BOOK IN HOW TO
BREAK THE RULES
WITHOUT ALIENATING AN AUDIENCE
My biggest musical influence is Erik Satie. His use of harmony and in keeping the music simple, direct and uncluttered guides all my music. Satie's music became a total turnaround when it was heard and dissected by Charlie Parker. Before this he was playing what everyone was playing. Big Band Swing. Charlie stood the Jazz world on its head. They thought he invented it out of thin air. Robert Fripp was another big fan and from the first Crimson band thru all his bands it has been a pivotal feature.
Think of the melodic content of a Beatles ballad but resolving phrases and chords using a 7th,a 9th or even a flatted 5th. The effect takes a listener on a very pleasant and welcomingjourney but stops for a moment here and there to view a sinkhole, a crumbling oldbuilding or an obtrusive car park.
___Can you actually add this to Metal? Not only can you it makes it your music sound darker, mysterious andCompels the listener to want to know what is coming up just around the corner. A journalist describedmy music as having a Sabbath vibe but with a Prog sensibility.
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...hell the guy is so cool I stole his look with the beard
Your 'need to know' that it has 13 hours of recording time, 90 minutes if it is in Stereo. You have 100 places to store you loops. You even have an undo button for your inevitable dumb moves. you get USB and MIDI in and out to link with switchers and other devices that must play in time together. It even corrects your timing and lets you punch in to carry on in time. Speaking of which it has a Drum machine built in.
A few basic FX are also included.
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I have a bare bones looper the classic and original TC Electronic Ditto and another classic the Alesis SR-16 drum machine but they can not sync. Neither has MIDI. So this has my total attention. I only need 2 basic groves in the Drum Machine. Either they are ironically the two on the first and indeed factory demo, or it suggests to me that someone at Zoom has their sh*t together by putting in what a 'real drummer' would. Unbelievable but other much more pricey machines will not let you send the drums out to a seperate amp. A 110% necessary function. This will!
The sweet sound of tube like FET transistors married to the somewhat bitter sounding distortion of a Fuzz. You start with a 7 part BAS Fuzz topography and add a serious FET OD.The layout is Volume, Tone
and Gain.
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Often an OD is not enough but a Fuzz is too much. I stack the 2 all the time but a good mix already in the one pedal usually gets the blend just right. This unit uses NOS silicon diodes and classic NOS BS170P FETS. the price says 'Buy Me' !!!
I bought their Red Scorpion Mega Distortion 10 years ago because it blew away my Friedman BEOD. I am not surprised they would eventually get a whole line of killer pedals. They aim for scoring an 11 out of 10. They had an enclosure before this one that looked the same but changed it to one that simply had a higher grade of steel because it was simply the very best of the very best you can get. They are totally anal about quality.
the layout is 2 cascading Gain pots, Volume and Tone and Filter that moves the entire range both up an down smoothing out the overtones. a kind of a sweet or sour control.
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