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Post by billyguitar on Dec 3, 2005 13:56:28 GMT -7
Tried one today for a bit. Couldn't try it much because everybody seemed to come in the room at the same time wanting to talk to me and each other. It seemed to be a very good pedal. Pretty transparent if you want it to be. Can go from almost no gain to pretty heavy. Not Boogie cascaded tube heavy but more of a single stage max out. Has a bit of fizz but not bad. Bass and treble controls allow a lot of tweaking. Slightly compressed, which I like. Handle chords and double stops well. Cleans up well when you turn the volume down. A good pedal for old school Marshally type sounds. Seemed like a pretty good o/d pedal. Sounded better than the OCD to me. Another guy in the store said he used an OCD last night and said the BB sounded better. The Xotic web site demo with Allen Hinds is pretty representative. Anybody else try one yet?
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Post by hollywood5150 on Dec 3, 2005 19:54:35 GMT -7
I have the BB and the AC. Both are great pedals. I use the AC for the medium OD, and the BB for a slight drive/boost. I think these two will stay on the pedal board for a while. But I haven't tried the Zendrive yet. I have noticed these pedals seem to hold their value on Ebay, so that says something about them.
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Post by skydog958 on Jan 21, 2006 22:24:38 GMT -7
I have owned my BB for a few months now, and thus far it has been wonderful to me. At the time, my amp was a Fender Hot Rod Deville 410, but more recently (2 days ago) I replaced it with my new KT-45 2X12 combo (hence why I actually am on this site). I used three guitars through it into the Fender: my '96 Les Paul Standard with Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Jimmy Page pup's w/ coil taps, a Heritage H-535, and, my crown jewel, an early '63 Gibson Firebird III. It has this realy smooth charater to it, the sort of 'thick' tone as the ones they describe for the RT-66. With the LP it got good crunchy sounds, and with the coil taps on, the strat a la Gibson tones were given good sustain and even tone. A very delicious blues tone. With the Heritage, the tones were even thicker, especially the neck p'up. To me, it had tones that reminded me of live Cream recordings (Crossroads, Spoonful, Sleepy Time Time, et al). Not exactly, of course, but of the same strain. Feedback was a slight issue though due to the semi-hollow nature of the guitar. This is my favorite guitar for this pedal. It didn't fair so well with the Firebird at first, though, with some more feedback issues (pickups too bright/too close to the strings?) but I did play an entire gig with the 'bird a week ago and used the pedal on the neck p'up and it sounded great. That may be 'cause I raised the action myself (I like my guitar set-up like SRV: big necks, huge frets, high action, heavy strings) and didn't readjust the pickups. That guitar works best with my BSM Fuzzbender anyway. It does work well with other effects...the only one I use with it is an old Boss MIJ CE-2 (black label), which sounds just brilliant with this pedal. Together this creates one of the best chorused lead sounds ever! It convinced me to actually use a chorus (I used to hate 'em). I haven't really used it with my new Z, because when it arrived, it had this odd sputtering and screeching (I am attributing this to issues in shipping; it was bought off of eBay), but for the few moments it was on, I wasn't sure if the smooth compressed tone was given a crunchier edge (not my intent for this pedal) by the amp or not. Only critique that wouldn't be subjective is that the paint chips off, so be careful if that matters to you. Mine had a more solid switch on it than the original stock, so reliability is completely solid, although the switch is a bit stiff. If you want to read more reviews, check out www.harmony-central.com for guitar and gear reviews. I posted a review for this pedal a little while back there. Hope this helped!
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Post by skydog958 on Jan 21, 2006 22:27:04 GMT -7
sorry i posted my review twice. I wanted to change a few grammatical things :-P. And for the record, I did not post Sthingyful as a Cream song.....I wrote SPOON-ful, but it went up like that for some odd reason lol.
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Post by skydog958 on Jan 21, 2006 22:27:27 GMT -7
aah!! it did it again
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 22, 2006 8:55:24 GMT -7
Spoonfull is better on the studio version, I think. Funny what the automatic censor does to that word. I guess it doesn't want us saying poon-tang!!!!!!! Years ago I had an original Firebird and the reason I got rid of it was squeally pickups. At that time nobody knew about potting them. So instead of routing it for regular humbuckings I sold it for the going amount, about $300 at that time (30 years ago).
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 22, 2006 8:57:03 GMT -7
Also if you double post you can delete one. Look up to the top right of your post and you'll see how.
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