EHX Screaming Bird
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MetalManiac
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
I'd get one if I were you, but personally i wouldn't touch the thing.
I'd get one if I were you, but personally i wouldn't touch the thing.
ItsaBass
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TheLivingDead
Dawn Of The Shred
Re: EHX Screaming Bird
Not personally but after listening to some demos... Do not want.
Not personally but after listening to some demos... Do not want.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
I know there is a massive price diff, but i am gassing for a Keeley Java Boost !
I know there is a massive price diff, but i am gassing for a Keeley Java Boost !
ItsaBass
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
Brilliant.
I got one cheap locally.
I like it. It does exactly what EHX says it does. It mainly cuts bass, and also boosts treble. Yes, the bass cut is quite extreme. But it is outstanding to clear up a heavily saturated amp so you can still have the saturation, but with clarity.
At cleaner settings, it just gives you a classic "lo-fi" tone. Sounds like playing a guitar through a boom box.
There is a cap mod that a guy on You Tube posted. I might try that and might not. I'm quite happy with what it does when the amp is dimed and I don't want to lose that.
Brilliant.
I got one cheap locally.
I like it. It does exactly what EHX says it does. It mainly cuts bass, and also boosts treble. Yes, the bass cut is quite extreme. But it is outstanding to clear up a heavily saturated amp so you can still have the saturation, but with clarity.
At cleaner settings, it just gives you a classic "lo-fi" tone. Sounds like playing a guitar through a boom box.
There is a cap mod that a guy on You Tube posted. I might try that and might not. I'm quite happy with what it does when the amp is dimed and I don't want to lose that.
Andrew Lamprecht
Minion of One
Re: EHX Screaming Bird
If you are talking about the cap mod I'm thinking of, all it does is turn it into a std clean boost.
If you are talking about the cap mod I'm thinking of, all it does is turn it into a std clean boost.
ItsaBass
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
Not sure, but I don't think so. The mod changes the stock .0022 mF caps to .01 mF caps. Looks like in order to make it a level boost, you go to .1 mF.
LPB-1, Screaming Bird, Mole:
Rangemaster:
Looks way too tiny in there for me to work on, so I am just going to put caps in parallel with the ones that are already there by soldering to the legs of the stock ones.
I think the people who have complained about this thing have tried it with a clean or crunchy tone, not with a heavily saturated tone.
Not sure, but I don't think so. The mod changes the stock .0022 mF caps to .01 mF caps. Looks like in order to make it a level boost, you go to .1 mF.
LPB-1, Screaming Bird, Mole:
Rangemaster:
Looks way too tiny in there for me to work on, so I am just going to put caps in parallel with the ones that are already there by soldering to the legs of the stock ones.
I think the people who have complained about this thing have tried it with a clean or crunchy tone, not with a heavily saturated tone.
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ItsaBass
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
Well, you can barely call it metal. It is like the metal equivalent of particle board. And all the internals except the caps, jacks, pot, and switch are super teeny weeny. But, whatever. I got it used for $25 via GC used section. Well worth it. I'd have paid the new price of $40 for it too, if I could have tried it first. But I could not find it in stock new around here. If nothing else, I can use the enclosure as a home for a rebuild using better quality full-sized components.
Well, you can barely call it metal. It is like the metal equivalent of particle board. And all the internals except the caps, jacks, pot, and switch are super teeny weeny. But, whatever. I got it used for $25 via GC used section. Well worth it. I'd have paid the new price of $40 for it too, if I could have tried it first. But I could not find it in stock new around here. If nothing else, I can use the enclosure as a home for a rebuild using better quality full-sized components.
TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: EHX Screaming Bird
It's bloody horrible!!!
It's bloody horrible!!!
ItsaBass
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
Either my ears disagree with everyone here, or everyone here didn't try it with their amp dimed. It makes for a glorious clear, but saturated tone when you have your power tubes pushed. What I think about it is posted above. It's more of a bass cut than a treble boost. It's up to you to figure out how to use that effectively and how not to. "Not usefeul" for a lot of things, sure. But it is far from downright awful, terrible, horrible, useless, etc.
Either my ears disagree with everyone here, or everyone here didn't try it with their amp dimed. It makes for a glorious clear, but saturated tone when you have your power tubes pushed. What I think about it is posted above. It's more of a bass cut than a treble boost. It's up to you to figure out how to use that effectively and how not to. "Not usefeul" for a lot of things, sure. But it is far from downright awful, terrible, horrible, useless, etc.
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TwilightOdyssey
Darkness on the edge of Tone
Re: EHX Screaming Bird
Hey, mazel tov if you can figure out a way to make it work for you.
I compared it to the Catalinbread Naga Viper and a couple other tb's and the EXH was far worse sounding to my ears.
The pedal shouldn't require diming the amp to sound good in any event.
Hey, mazel tov if you can figure out a way to make it work for you.
I compared it to the Catalinbread Naga Viper and a couple other tb's and the EXH was far worse sounding to my ears.
The pedal shouldn't require diming the amp to sound good in any event.
ItsaBass
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
What a pedal "should" do will vary from person to person, so I don't know about the use of "shouldn't" here. What it should or shouldn't do doesn't matter. Relative to one's expectations or desires, it might not satisfy, but in an absolute sense, it simply does what it does. I think that with any pedal, you just have to find out what it does, and then use it for what it does best (or not use it at all) instead of expecting it to live up to a preconceived notion.
I am always playing with my amp pretty saturated with overdrive. I am not using a treble booster to give a high-powered amp a push toward breakup, like some people do. I'm using it to clean up the bottom end and add clarity to an amp that is already pretty well cooking. So it works for me in my expected use. In other words, it does what it "should" for me...though that won't be the case for everyone. I am sure there are "better" all-around treble-booster pedals out there, but for cheap, this thing does some useful things for me. I am still gonna try that cap mod, though, just to see what else I can get the thing to do.
What a pedal "should" do will vary from person to person, so I don't know about the use of "shouldn't" here. What it should or shouldn't do doesn't matter. Relative to one's expectations or desires, it might not satisfy, but in an absolute sense, it simply does what it does. I think that with any pedal, you just have to find out what it does, and then use it for what it does best (or not use it at all) instead of expecting it to live up to a preconceived notion.
I am always playing with my amp pretty saturated with overdrive. I am not using a treble booster to give a high-powered amp a push toward breakup, like some people do. I'm using it to clean up the bottom end and add clarity to an amp that is already pretty well cooking. So it works for me in my expected use. In other words, it does what it "should" for me...though that won't be the case for everyone. I am sure there are "better" all-around treble-booster pedals out there, but for cheap, this thing does some useful things for me. I am still gonna try that cap mod, though, just to see what else I can get the thing to do.
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Inkstained
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Re: EHX Screaming Bird
A good description of maybe 65 percent of all EH pedals. (But I love EH. Seriously.)
A good description of maybe 65 percent of all EH pedals. (But I love EH. Seriously.)
