Black Winter...the Pedal!! (not really)

Zombiemetl

Zombiemetl

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as nerdy as it is I had a dream about this...lets make it a reality!! we got the 805 and the dirty deed, lets turn the gain up to 666!
 
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Zombiemetl said:
as nerdy as it is I had a dream about this...lets make it a reality!! we got the 805 and the dirty deed, lets turn the gain up to 666!
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Ok, I'll have some fun with this!

What are some features? What did it LOOK LIKE in your dream? 2 channels with a clean and distorted setting or TS style? 2-3 band eq or a sole tone knob? Any switches to shift the tone to some automatic settings, like maybe a "GRIME" button to change the distorted channel? Would it have the graphics seen on the BW pickup box with the soldiers silhouetted?
 
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Falloffthebonetone said:
Ok, I'll have some fun with this!

What are some features? What did it LOOK LIKE in your dream? 2 channels with a clean and distorted setting or TS style? 2-3 band eq or a sole tone knob? Any switches to shift the tone to some automatic settings, like maybe a "GRIME" button to change the distorted channel? Would it have the graphics seen on the BW pickup box with the soldiers silhouetted?
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haha yes it did look like the box they come in...although it was mostly black and grey and spooky trees...im pretty sure it had just volume, gain and 3 band eq, but I would love to see a built in noise gate too.
 
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the SD logo and Black Winter were in the same olde English font...super cool! those ideas you had were great too!
 
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It's tricky enough making all the knobs go to "11", but "666"? That'll be brutal.
 
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Zombiemetl said:
haha yes it did look like the box they come in...although it was mostly black and grey and spooky trees...im pretty sure it had just volume, gain and 3 band eq, but I would love to see a built in noise gate too.
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K so built in gate, 3 band eq, gain and volume knob. Sounds similar to the MXR bass di. Maybe the design could be tweaked, have a 2nd foot switch to act as a clean boost and that can have its own volume knob so you can dial in a heavy distorted rhythm and then use the boost for leads. Maybe even give it a preset eq that helps it cut more but still is effected by the 3 band.

Maybe instead of a forum pickup that we all have trouble with thinking about, maybe we can have a forum pedal instead!
 
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If it's called "Black Winter", I'll buy one.
 
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dominus said:
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heard some great things about these. I like to tweak out on knobs too, but there is also something so great about a pedal with only a few knobs that just sounds good all the time...plug and play!
 
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Yeah, that tight metal pedal is by far the best high-gainer I've ever tried...even supplanted the Wampler tri-rec by a good margin.

Would like to see duncan's take on this though.
 
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Bring back the Twin Tube Mayhem...?

Or at east the spirit of the TTM with the Dirty 805?
 
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Kinda like those boost/distortion pedals
That Vai uses
I love that
I want one

*(Sent from my durned phone!)*
 
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Johnny the Kid said:
Bring back the Twin Tube Mayhem...?

Or at east the spirit of the TTM with the Dirty 805?
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did you ever try the Twin Tube Mayhem? was always curious about it. I definitely think SD needs a high gain pedal again, they have the markets attention with the Black winters and Nazguls and blackouts and whatnot...its time there was a pedal to match!
 
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Zombiemetl said:
did you ever try the Twin Tube Mayhem? was always curious about it. I definitely think SD needs a high gain pedal again, they have the markets attention with the Black winters and Nazguls and blackouts and whatnot...its time there was a pedal to match!
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I did, twice. There's one good sound in it, and you really have to tweak to find it. It goes from flubby to fizzy quickly. For over the top metal solid state has proved its mettle.
 
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dominus said:
I did, twice. There's one good sound in it, and you really have to tweak to find it. It goes from flubby to fizzy quickly. For over the top metal solid state has proved its mettle.
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I've been running a GFS Twin Boost in front of mine. It really tightens up that flubbyness and makes the pedal quite a bit more versatile. It sounds good in front of a solid state and fantastic into a tube amp.
 
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dominus said:
I did, twice. There's one good sound in it, and you really have to tweak to find it. It goes from flubby to fizzy quickly. For over the top metal solid state has proved its mettle.
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Maybe it just needs a relaunch. I think they were onto a good concept. I have a Blackstar HT-Blackfire. It's a very tight and focused sound which claims to run at plate voltage (but I still don't know for sure if all the gain comes from the tube like the mini tubes in the TTM).
 
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