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Post by darin on Jan 21, 2006 21:34:03 GMT -7
The other guitar player that joined our band recently last year has one, I fell in love and put one on my board replacing my Keely TS/9. Still using the Blues Driver as well. I got my sights on a Dr. Z. Currently using Fender HotRod Delux. My Volume and Delay pedal usually run in the loop.
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 22, 2006 8:59:20 GMT -7
I think the J & H is a good pedal but doesn't have the cool factor of a modded pedal or a boutique. If it sounds good, it is good, no matter what's "cool".
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Post by bluzsteel on Jan 22, 2006 11:04:36 GMT -7
I know one thing , your pedals anit going anywhere!!!!
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 22, 2006 11:46:18 GMT -7
I noticed that. Are they really bolted down? I'd be afraid the bit would go in too far and hit something.
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Post by darin on Jan 26, 2006 15:17:52 GMT -7
There are no holes in the pedals. Just double stick tape on the sides. My pedals keps coming loose from the board being sat on end in the hot trailer. The velcro would pull off the pedals. I'm giving this a try this year.
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Post by darin on Jan 26, 2006 15:23:07 GMT -7
My Dlues Driver is Keely modded. It's not as transperant as I'd hoped it would be. It thins out the sound a little too much. But with the J&H and the BD I can get enough different gain tones to work with. Still not that smooth silky saturated shreddy gain I get from my POD. But for the country gig, it's fine.
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 26, 2006 15:35:10 GMT -7
I hate that when the velcro gets hot and comes off the pedal. It alsways takes the info decal off with it!
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Post by G'OlPeachPhan on Jan 26, 2006 16:19:52 GMT -7
darin, what are those two extra switches on your j&h?
The j&h was the first 'boutique' pedal I ever owned... I guess it's not even really boutique, but I considered it to be at the time (8 years ago). I owned it for 2 years, and sold it at a time when I was going through a "no pedals allowed" phase. Very cool pedal from what I remember, with tons of bang for the buck. The Hyde side was particularly cool - like the best RAT pedal ever!
I'd be interested to compare the Hyde with my Catalinbread SCOD, which is my current favorite distortion. I may have to pick up another j&h some day!
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Post by darin on Jan 26, 2006 21:09:27 GMT -7
On the overdrive side it's a bass boost and on the distortion side it's a "sharp/blunt" thing. It pretty much thins it out and trebels it up a tad. I run my bass on my hotrod delux almost all the way up, so I don't use the bass bost on the keely mod BD or on the J&H overdrive. I can run both sided of the J&H and the BD all together. I run all the drive setting pretty low. That's about as close to soupy distortion as I get. But with the tele, it's not that great like that. I'll do it mainly with my Ibanez JPM for shreddy noodly stuff. I think the J&H is a must have for any board. No matter what your currently running, it'll add tonal options. It's quite versitile. I'm actually getting ready to check out the Line 6 XT live pedal bourd. I just bought the Variax 700 acoustic, and the XT Live is supposed to work really well with it. Plus It'll work as a stomp box pedal board. I'm hoping it'll have some usable pedals. The cool thing is, it'll change s and alternate tunings on the Variax by foot switch.
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Post by G'OlPeachPhan on Jan 27, 2006 12:38:08 GMT -7
darin, thanks for the info on the switches. are those standard on the latest versions of the j&h? I think mine may have had a sharp/blunt switch on the hyde side, but it wasn't implemented like the switches are on yours. I know it didn't have a bass boost on the jeckyll side.
To my recollection, this was one of the very first 2 in 1 pedals, and one of the first to build pedal 'stacking' right into it.
Refresh my memory... It's buffered bypass isn't it?
I may have to go out and get one of those to try again... Thanks for the info!
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Post by dezee on Jan 27, 2006 14:11:59 GMT -7
Don't have that pedal but hey....thats a nice name you have. My real name is spelled the same way "Darin".
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Post by darin on Jan 27, 2006 20:21:37 GMT -7
I don't know about the bypass. But the newer pedal has the switches in a different location. I guess you can accidentally hit them with your foot when stepping on the buttons. I haven't had that problem though. I really really think everyone should give the pedal a listen. If you sorta like the TS-9, but don't like it enough, the overdrive side of the JH may be what you're looking for. It's not transperant by any means, but give a nice thick mild drive without the goofy mids of the TS-9. Also, I totally dig my compressor pedal, the Marshall Edwards ED-1. www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Data/Marshall/ED_1_Edward_the_Compressor-1.html Although I would like to check out the Keely Compressor. I think some of his stuff is a bit overated, but still good.
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Post by darin on Jan 28, 2006 16:42:46 GMT -7
Well, forget all that about the Marshall compressor pedal now. I just got back from the guitar store. I AM getting the www.visualsound.net/Pedal_rt66.htm Route 66 Compressor/overdrive pedal. If you're going to gig with one pedal, this could very well be the one.
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Post by mmattheww on Jan 29, 2006 16:14:56 GMT -7
i noticed the message about the velcro coming loose--mine did that all the time in the Florida sun! a month ago, a buddy a mine said he'd fix it... he put rubber cement on the velcro sticky side, and on the pedal (he did a neat job with nothing running over the edges), and now the velcro doesn't go anywhere. very nice permanent solution.
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Post by billyguitar on Jan 29, 2006 18:49:27 GMT -7
On the Route 66 pedal does the compressor run into the o/d? The o/d in this pedal is very near the same as my Reverend Drivetrain. I still think it's one of the better sounding o/d circuits out there. I try new ones all the time but they don't really top it.
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Post by joekondziella on Jan 29, 2006 18:51:06 GMT -7
I don't know what I'd do without a hot glue gun. If you you have to remove something you can peel it off and redo. I use it on the backside of my velcro so it stays on the pedal. I even use it on the power cord going in to the pedal so the the cable doesn't slip out and I have to at the last minute find the short in my pedalboard. I even tried it on the end of the George L's to keep them from workin loose.
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Post by StrangeC on Jan 29, 2006 19:14:14 GMT -7
Use 3M Hook and Loop instead of Velcro. 3M makes much better adhesives.
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