If it took years of tweaking/trying with diff. equipment, does it count as "appreciating..." Or am I just forcing it?
It's been around me for years, too cheap to sell off, never cared to mod. When I only had a crappy solid state amp, it sounded terrible like other cheap pedals did not. I pull it out through the years to note that different/better equipment seems not to make it better in a relative way. Flash-forward, I took some time exploring this pedal:
-With humbuckers through a clean amp... Still harsh and weird. Sort of like a caricature of hair metal from someone who wasn't a fan. The tone knob allows you to go from worse to bad
-But sounds pretty decent in conjunction with overdrive/amp distortion
-And it sounds pretty awesome paired with a darker amp and a single coil guitar, through the clean channel or along with dist. and so long as you've dialed the pedal tone back to about 10:30 , and keep the gain at about 1:30 .
Actually in that latter scenario, this pedal sort of kills it in a hilarious and wonderful way; with my Telecaster and my darker amps I'm hearing the pedal's smoother characteristics, with a ton of chunk and clarity; also exhibiting some sensitivity to picking dynamics that I figured had been purposely engineered out. Kind of like having a stupid dog that's for some reason really good at killing ground squirrels, but not really anything else. Like not falling on its face.
Or maybe my perception is just altered by time and effort :P
It's been around me for years, too cheap to sell off, never cared to mod. When I only had a crappy solid state amp, it sounded terrible like other cheap pedals did not. I pull it out through the years to note that different/better equipment seems not to make it better in a relative way. Flash-forward, I took some time exploring this pedal:
-With humbuckers through a clean amp... Still harsh and weird. Sort of like a caricature of hair metal from someone who wasn't a fan. The tone knob allows you to go from worse to bad
-But sounds pretty decent in conjunction with overdrive/amp distortion
-And it sounds pretty awesome paired with a darker amp and a single coil guitar, through the clean channel or along with dist. and so long as you've dialed the pedal tone back to about 10:30 , and keep the gain at about 1:30 .
Actually in that latter scenario, this pedal sort of kills it in a hilarious and wonderful way; with my Telecaster and my darker amps I'm hearing the pedal's smoother characteristics, with a ton of chunk and clarity; also exhibiting some sensitivity to picking dynamics that I figured had been purposely engineered out. Kind of like having a stupid dog that's for some reason really good at killing ground squirrels, but not really anything else. Like not falling on its face.
Or maybe my perception is just altered by time and effort :P
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