Andy Timmons BB Preamp Demo...

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I'm an Andy Timmons freak...I mean I'm legitimately obsessed. As I'm sure some of you know, Andy is a big proponent of the Xotic Effects BB Preamp, I've been thinking about getting one basically ever since I learned he used one on his board, unfortunately I found out that they made an AT signature pedal long after the first batch was sold out, so when I found out that they were reissuing one, I bought it as soon as humanly possible.

It really does get that chewy, lead sound that Andy is renowned for when you put it in front of an already distorted amps, and it gets an AWESOME slightly broken up, Little Wing/Lenny/Electric Gypsy tone on the clean channel of an amp. It blows my Maxon 808 out of the water (although that's a fine pedal as well) in terms of versatility, the EQ is extremely powerful and you can get some awesome tubescreamerish, low gain, mid boosted sounds just as easily as you can get a crunchy, agressive, scooped sound.

 
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The BB Preamp was the best OD pedal I ever owned. The only reason I sold mine was I realized I was always dialing it in to sound like other, cheaper ODs that were more "me". Waste of a good pedal.

Andy gets an absolutley awesome tone, my favorite out of all the shredders I've listened to.
 
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Is that you playing?

It sure is...I don't normally subject people to my guitar playing :friday:, but I really enjoy making videos, and I love making them even more when it's a piece of gear this cool.

What's funny about the BB is that it does the exact opposite of what a lot of similar overdrives strive for, provide a transparent boost. The BB (especially the AT sig BB) imparts of LOT of it's own character onto your tone. Which can be a good or a bad thing, but the compression, warmth and harmonics that it has are exactly what I want out of a distortion pedal...I love this thing!
 
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That OD mates really well with your Mesa. Which Mesa model is it again?

I agree that it's a great tone. There's a trick to getting a strat to sound like that, and you found it with that combo.
 
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Just bought one of these myself. I agree, it took a few days for me to get use to it because it DOESN'T color my tone the way all my other pedals do. I'm loving it. It is exactly that little "something extra" that you need if you already like the tone of your amp.
 
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That OD mates really well with your Mesa. Which Mesa model is it again?

I agree that it's a great tone. There's a trick to getting a strat to sound like that, and you found it with that combo.

He mentioned that it is Lone Star
 
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Great tones! I would love to hear you jam over some AT backing tracks! I too love AT tones and a BB is on my pedal list when I become idependently wealthy!
 
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How is the AT version different from the normal BB Preamp?
 
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