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  • October 31, 2008 at 3:51 pm #77232
    electro-melx
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    I was wondering how the drive was on this pedal with the envelope off and how it compared to something like the hot tubes?

    I’m interested in one, but I wouldn’t use the filter all that often, if the tube drive was good then it would make it a lot more desirable to me.

    October 31, 2008 at 8:51 pm #86661
    John J
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    I use mine this way from time to time, but the filter is so great that it feels like a waste not to employ it. You don’t get the same amount of tone control as a Hot Tubes due to there only being a frequency knob with resonance control, and with the resonance down, the tone control is extremely slight; you can, of course, also turn up the resonance to get the half-cocked wah type tone in the demo. This works out perfectly because it allows you to get a frequency response as wide or narrow as you wish.
    There’s way more gain onboard than I would ever use, and it can get a little spitty at higher input gain settings, but with the input gain set to a moderate level, it’s a great sounding overdrive/distortion that’s a nice change of pace from time to time. Also, it reacts extremely well to DI recording, which is more than I can say for any Tube Screamer I’ve ever played.

    Hope it helps!

    October 31, 2008 at 8:58 pm #86665
    electro-melx
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    I use mine this way from time to time, but the filter is so great that it feels like a waste not to employ it. You don’t get the same amount of tone control as a Hot Tubes due to there only being a frequency knob with resonance control, and with the resonance down, the tone control is extremely slight; you can, of course, also turn up the resonance to get the half-cocked wah type tone in the demo. This works out perfectly because it allows you to get a frequency response as wide or narrow as you wish.
    There’s way more gain onboard than I would ever use, and it can get a little spitty at higher input gain settings, but with the input gain set to a moderate level, it’s a great sounding overdrive/distortion that’s a nice change of pace from time to time. Also, it reacts extremely well to DI recording, which is more than I can say for any Tube Screamer I’ve ever played.

    Hope it helps!

    yeah, thanks…that’s really helpfull.

    I record direct into my tascam digital 8-track so I could use it for that too…I just didn’t want to pay the price for one and never really use it, I think I’ll have to look into one of these a little more seriously.

    November 4, 2008 at 10:29 pm #87024
    John J
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    This is off topic, but I’m curious:

    Which model Tascam are you using?

    November 4, 2008 at 10:35 pm #87027
    electro-melx
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    This is off topic, but I’m curious:

    Which model Tascam are you using?

    a DP-02CF it’s the newest 8-track digital portastudio.

    see here:

    http://www.tascam.com/products/dp-02cf.html

    I think it’s amazing for the price, I got it back in the summer when my last band split up and it’s been brilliant.

    November 4, 2008 at 10:49 pm #86984
    tubezipper
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    oooh you interested?

    It does great distortion / fuzz. I know you say you don’t use filter, but i seriously think you will love the zippers ability in combining filter with fuzz.

    November 4, 2008 at 10:57 pm #86990
    electro-melx
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    oooh you interested?

    It does great distortion / fuzz. I know you say you don’t use filter, but i seriously think you will love the zippers ability in combining filter with fuzz.

    well I’m semi interested…..I saw a ‘used’ one on the bay the other day going for a decent price and I was kinda tempted but I was unsure if I would use it, I’m just curious incase I see another going for cheap!

    November 4, 2008 at 11:05 pm #86971
    tubezipper
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    oooh you interested?

    It does great distortion / fuzz. I know you say you don’t use filter, but i seriously think you will love the zippers ability in combining filter with fuzz.

    well I’m semi interested…..I saw a ‘used’ one on the bay the other day going for a decent price and I was kinda tempted but I was unsure if I would use it, I’m just curious incase I see another going for cheap!

    i can do a demo tomorrow to feed your tube zipper temptation 😆

    :)

    November 4, 2008 at 11:21 pm #87035
    electro-melx
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    oooh you interested?

    It does great distortion / fuzz. I know you say you don’t use filter, but i seriously think you will love the zippers ability in combining filter with fuzz.

    well I’m semi interested…..I saw a ‘used’ one on the bay the other day going for a decent price and I was kinda tempted but I was unsure if I would use it, I’m just curious incase I see another going for cheap!

    i can do a demo tomorrow to feed your tube zipper temptation 😆

    :)

    yeah, that would be good…..I’d like to hear it. :rawk:

    November 5, 2008 at 12:16 am #87050
    tubezipper
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    [/quote]

    yeah, that would be good…..I’d like to hear it. :rawk:[/quote]

    no problemo.

    I’ll try get the best settings out for the dist/fuzz :)

    November 5, 2008 at 12:23 am #87053
    electro-melx
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    I’ll try get the best settings out for the dist/fuzz :)

    sweet, I’d just like to hear everything you can do with it really…

    November 5, 2008 at 12:24 am #87054
    tubezipper
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    I’ll try get the best settings out for the dist/fuzz :)

    sweet, I’d just like to hear everything you can do with it really…

    in that case i’ll cover most settings. :)

    here’s the demo.

    TubeZipper Demo

    November 5, 2008 at 6:13 pm #87086
    electro-melx
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    I’ll try get the best settings out for the dist/fuzz :)

    sweet, I’d just like to hear everything you can do with it really…

    in that case i’ll cover most settings. :)

    here’s the demo.

    TubeZipper Demo

    sounds great, cheers for that. :thumb:

    November 5, 2008 at 6:27 pm #87087
    tubezipper
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    LOL!

    I didn’t even type that! 😆

    November 5, 2008 at 6:42 pm #87088
    electro-melx
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    LOL!

    I didn’t even type that! 😆

    just one of the benifits of being admin. ;)

    I might post it up in the other ‘soundclips, pics etc’ section too.

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