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You know that Ross Distortion I'm fixin'?
Some of you may remember that thread, I'm trying to repair a Ross Distortion just like this one:
I remember playing it in '97-98 with my very first electric (yamaha RGX) through a Peavey KB/A and I just remember it being a crackling nightmare, cheap sounding, very inorganic withouth any good gain sound whatsoever. Of course now I realize it was mostly the amp...
Now that it's working "ok", I've had a chance to play it a bit more through my present amps...
God, it's actually very very good!
The pedal is noisy but that still may be a grounding issue.
Blackheart Killer Ant:
The thing's got balls! It's actually quite impressive. There's not tone or EQ of any sort on it but it does sound aggressive with a LOT of gain, not buzzy, kind of a mid-way point between a good crunch and recto-ish sound. Very surprising and pleasant.
It'd definitely not an OD, very distortion box but still, it reacts very well over the overdriven amp. Plenty of mids, lows and it's very rich harmonically speaking (I've never heard my fingers squeak that much while playing).
Orange TH30:
I didn't expect much playing the pedal through this one and I was right and wrong...
Over the clean channel it's very very cool. A bit "dry", not warm at all but not lacking anything either. Reminds me a lot of the tones a lot of hardcore bands get through their 5150s. I think gainy and dry really describe it well. It wouldn't be my main tone but would work very very well for some styles and is worth having.
Over the dirty channel it was horrible. There's some weird frequency cancellation happening and it feels like the volume dropping by 1/2. Everything gets farty and, well, horrible.
All in all, had this thing been working through the last 10 years, it probably would've been a staple of my rig. I really sounds great and I wish I could've tried it over my former JCM800. I truly prefer it over my DS-1 at the moment, it's just juicy-er (don't get me wrong, that Spina-modded DS-1 is a jem but, if I can get the noise out of this one it'll be a monster).
I now have the proper motivation to finish it properly and rebuild it to last. I think I'll change the old jack inputs and buy new pots...
If you ever find one cheap get it... I exchanged this against a pack of smokes I found back then... I did ok!
I remember playing it in '97-98 with my very first electric (yamaha RGX) through a Peavey KB/A and I just remember it being a crackling nightmare, cheap sounding, very inorganic withouth any good gain sound whatsoever. Of course now I realize it was mostly the amp...
Now that it's working "ok", I've had a chance to play it a bit more through my present amps...
God, it's actually very very good!
The pedal is noisy but that still may be a grounding issue.
Blackheart Killer Ant:
The thing's got balls! It's actually quite impressive. There's not tone or EQ of any sort on it but it does sound aggressive with a LOT of gain, not buzzy, kind of a mid-way point between a good crunch and recto-ish sound. Very surprising and pleasant.
It'd definitely not an OD, very distortion box but still, it reacts very well over the overdriven amp. Plenty of mids, lows and it's very rich harmonically speaking (I've never heard my fingers squeak that much while playing).
Orange TH30:
I didn't expect much playing the pedal through this one and I was right and wrong...
Over the clean channel it's very very cool. A bit "dry", not warm at all but not lacking anything either. Reminds me a lot of the tones a lot of hardcore bands get through their 5150s. I think gainy and dry really describe it well. It wouldn't be my main tone but would work very very well for some styles and is worth having.
Over the dirty channel it was horrible. There's some weird frequency cancellation happening and it feels like the volume dropping by 1/2. Everything gets farty and, well, horrible.
All in all, had this thing been working through the last 10 years, it probably would've been a staple of my rig. I really sounds great and I wish I could've tried it over my former JCM800. I truly prefer it over my DS-1 at the moment, it's just juicy-er (don't get me wrong, that Spina-modded DS-1 is a jem but, if I can get the noise out of this one it'll be a monster).
I now have the proper motivation to finish it properly and rebuild it to last. I think I'll change the old jack inputs and buy new pots...
If you ever find one cheap get it... I exchanged this against a pack of smokes I found back then... I did ok!
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