Gunny47
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Just picked one up last night. I've been doing a lot of rhythm guitar stuff for my roommate (blues, pop, groove) which requires a lot of ambient sounding stuff (octaves, upper register chords, doubling melodies, volume swells etc). Plus, I've been looking to nail Andy Summers' sound since the day I picked up the guitar.
So this pedal does a lot more than I expected it to do. I already used it for two different band rehearsals and I found some cool applications for it. First, it is like two pedals in one with the flanger and the chorus side. The chorus sound is really good, very warm sounding in the EH fashion, I really dig it. Goes from subtle shimmer to crazy leslie type stuff. It gets the Andy Summers tone perfectly, chorusy sounding flange tone its so great. Blend in a tiny bit of chorus to add a little more warmth, it sounds so great. Really gets those classic tones in a smaller footprint.
The crazy part of the pedal is the filter matrix mode where you can dial in a harmonic that rings out when you just play the strings muted when the flange depth is all the way up. It creates a pedaltone type thing almost and you can get a sitar type of sound with it. Almost a tremolo type effect on it somehow, like a warble coming from the amp it's pretty out. Cool to experiment with. Filter matrix mode was also cool with the flanger depth around 12 oclock to give a sort of out of phase tone with the bridge pickup for Albert King like lead sounds. Lot of flexibility.
I tried it with an American Deluxe Strat with Van Zandt pups and my DG335 with BB2/BB3. Tried it through my Princeton Clone and a Hot Rod deluxe but not with distortion. I want to try some of the filter matrix sounds with some overdrive sort of like that cocked wah tone but with a different tinge.
I do wish it worked on 9 volt batteries. True bypass I don't really care about, but the 9 volt adapter is pretty annoying when it's not on a board (jeez I gotta get a better board). Stereo outs is a cool feature. I really like it so far, I'll post again when I try it with some overdrive. Lot of usable tones here. Tell me what ya'll think about this one
So this pedal does a lot more than I expected it to do. I already used it for two different band rehearsals and I found some cool applications for it. First, it is like two pedals in one with the flanger and the chorus side. The chorus sound is really good, very warm sounding in the EH fashion, I really dig it. Goes from subtle shimmer to crazy leslie type stuff. It gets the Andy Summers tone perfectly, chorusy sounding flange tone its so great. Blend in a tiny bit of chorus to add a little more warmth, it sounds so great. Really gets those classic tones in a smaller footprint.
The crazy part of the pedal is the filter matrix mode where you can dial in a harmonic that rings out when you just play the strings muted when the flange depth is all the way up. It creates a pedaltone type thing almost and you can get a sitar type of sound with it. Almost a tremolo type effect on it somehow, like a warble coming from the amp it's pretty out. Cool to experiment with. Filter matrix mode was also cool with the flanger depth around 12 oclock to give a sort of out of phase tone with the bridge pickup for Albert King like lead sounds. Lot of flexibility.
I tried it with an American Deluxe Strat with Van Zandt pups and my DG335 with BB2/BB3. Tried it through my Princeton Clone and a Hot Rod deluxe but not with distortion. I want to try some of the filter matrix sounds with some overdrive sort of like that cocked wah tone but with a different tinge.
I do wish it worked on 9 volt batteries. True bypass I don't really care about, but the 9 volt adapter is pretty annoying when it's not on a board (jeez I gotta get a better board). Stereo outs is a cool feature. I really like it so far, I'll post again when I try it with some overdrive. Lot of usable tones here. Tell me what ya'll think about this one
