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June 3, 2010 at 6:03 pm in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #102765julianModerator
I’m kind of skeptical at this point on whether or not I’ll like the Germanium Muff.
It sounds kind of like a cheap Sun-Lion (if the overdrive resembles the germanium OD and hence a germanium booster type thing) or a Germanium Jeckyll and Hyde with bias control. If it’s the former, AWESOME, if it’s the latter, meh.
I want to know if it has anything in common with a Big Muff besides name, 4 transistors, and being a drive pedal.
June 3, 2010 at 1:44 pm in reply to: Anybody ever convert a vintage 110V AC powered Hot Tubes to 9/12/18/24V DC adapter? #102791julianModeratorI found the schems at musique.com:
julianModeratorI’ll open up my HOG and give a check, but I believe EH man is right.
julianModeratorWell the most important things to the saxophone sound are:
Attack: attack is up to the player. Of course this is hard to emulate on guitar. On all the attack pedals you set the attack time, where really it needs to be variable. Probably the best thing is to do pinky or volume pedal swells. In a Television song they do this to great effect on the song Venus to get sort of a trumpet sound. David Gilmour was also pretty good at that. The other thing is that the tonality of the sax changes with the attack, something that an envelope pedal with a very quick response time could help with.
Waveshape: saxophones wave shapes are more square than guitars. Fuzz pedals help a lot there. In fact there are some recordings I’ve heard where I find it hard to tell the difference a sax and a guitar that’s simply been distorted.
julianModeratorPedals aren’t made to handle those impedances, and both your pedal and your amp could get damaged.
julianModeratorAll I can tell you is that I have a red font Russian and I LOVE IT. Way better sounding than the Polyphase or Phase 90 IMO.
May 27, 2010 at 7:55 pm in reply to: Please stop the power adapter follies! I guarantee we’ll EHX buy nonstop #103758julianModeratorBefore I had a PP2+, I just had power strips built into my board. Everything was constantly plugged in, and to power up my rig, all I had to do was plug the power strip in.
It was messy, and I like the PP2+ solution a lot better- saves me a lot of board space, and it is less noisy, but there’s nothing wrong with having a power strip under your board.
May 27, 2010 at 3:02 pm in reply to: Please stop the power adapter follies! I guarantee we’ll EHX buy nonstop #102946julianModerator
Solves ALL problems. And the PP2+ comes with one or two 3.5mm adapters itself.
It would suck not to use some really great pedal just because it has different power requirements than a BOSS pedal.
I have a couple of DOD pedals that use 3.5mm power, and I wouldn’t get rid of them just because of that.
Technically I could replace the power jacks, it’s an easy mod, but I’ve never found it to be that big of a deal.
May 21, 2010 at 11:04 pm in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #107379julianModeratorI think it’s curious that they used the word “goodies” and not just effects or pedals. I think they’ve got something up their sleeves.
Amps?
Some kind of weirdo synth?Who knows!
May 21, 2010 at 3:44 pm in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #107661julianModeratorThere is one in Frankfurt called Musikmesse. I don’t know of any in England.
May 21, 2010 at 4:13 am in reply to: New Devices: Germanium^4 Big Muff &, .44 Magnum, Freeze, Neo Clone, & Headphone Amp #107948julianModeratorI really want to go, but Nashville’s about a 9 hour drive.
But I’m sure some NAMM goers will definitely have pictures.
julianModeratorCould have been my set-up, but I’d hit it, and suddenly it was like my guitar disappeared. Live that is. It was great for recording.
julianModeratorIt is.
julianModeratorThe old danelectro pedals all sounded cool or weird but had bad bypass.
The new danelectro pedals don’t have any problems like bad bypass or volume drops but they are all BLAND.
I loved the French Toast but the volume drop KILLED it. If they’d make a TB French Toast with no volume drop, I’d eat that up.
julianModeratorI’d add stuff about daisy chaining:
Positive ground: Some pedals, such as the Nano Clone and Nano Muff OD have positive ground, instead of negative ground. They are normal polarity though. When daisy chained with pedals that are negative ground, they will not work properly. Pedals with positive ground must be on a separate power supply, or on a separate output of a power supply that has isolated outs.
Digital and analog pedals usually don’t daisy-chain well together. Digital pedals should either have their own power supply, or their own output on a power supply that has isolated outs.
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