Kosh Naranek
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I got GC's latest flyer in the mail a couple of days ago. My heart skipped a beat when I saw that they've dropped the price on the BBE Green Screamer overdrive to $50. Lately the Digitech Bad Monkey has gotten a lot of love because it's a great TS-9 type overdrive and easy on the budget. The Green Screamer is an amazing sounding TS-9 type pedal, but until now it was at least twice the price of a Bad Monkey.
I got a friend of mine a used Green Screamer last summer for his B-Day and I've wanted one ever since I heard his. Last night I went to my local GC and snapped up their whole stock of them!! Two Green Screamers! And I wanted three, so they said they'll call me when more come in. At that price, I decided to get one for my brother and one for another friend! Every guitarist ought to have a Green Screamer! Sorry, I'm not buyin' one for you.:laughing:
While I was there, I saw they had some Digitech pedals sitting out of the box. I asked about those and the guy said they were floor demos that they were selling off cheap. I got a Hot Head for $20!!
I loved the Hot Head soon as I plugged it in. Who was it that said the Hot Head is Digitech's DS-1? No way!! The DS-1 sounds buzzy and distorted even at its lowest gain setting, and with your guitar volume down. Blecchhhh, unless you're after a massively distorted sound and you use it in front of your high gain amp.
The Hot Head's distortion is completely different. From trying it out last night, I noticed the quality of the distortion sounded more natural. It's not a plastic, electronic buzz like the DS-1's. And it cleaned up when I picked lightly!! I loved that. Of course it's capable of higher gain settings where it wouldn't clean up as much, and starts to sound real aggressive with more gain.
I'm even happier than the day I walked into GC and they were selling off all the AC adapters they had laying around (no doubt which belonged to gear they had sold, but which they can never be bothered to look for when you're buying the gear) for $5 a piece.
I got a friend of mine a used Green Screamer last summer for his B-Day and I've wanted one ever since I heard his. Last night I went to my local GC and snapped up their whole stock of them!! Two Green Screamers! And I wanted three, so they said they'll call me when more come in. At that price, I decided to get one for my brother and one for another friend! Every guitarist ought to have a Green Screamer! Sorry, I'm not buyin' one for you.:laughing:
While I was there, I saw they had some Digitech pedals sitting out of the box. I asked about those and the guy said they were floor demos that they were selling off cheap. I got a Hot Head for $20!!
I loved the Hot Head soon as I plugged it in. Who was it that said the Hot Head is Digitech's DS-1? No way!! The DS-1 sounds buzzy and distorted even at its lowest gain setting, and with your guitar volume down. Blecchhhh, unless you're after a massively distorted sound and you use it in front of your high gain amp.
The Hot Head's distortion is completely different. From trying it out last night, I noticed the quality of the distortion sounded more natural. It's not a plastic, electronic buzz like the DS-1's. And it cleaned up when I picked lightly!! I loved that. Of course it's capable of higher gain settings where it wouldn't clean up as much, and starts to sound real aggressive with more gain.
I'm even happier than the day I walked into GC and they were selling off all the AC adapters they had laying around (no doubt which belonged to gear they had sold, but which they can never be bothered to look for when you're buying the gear) for $5 a piece.
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