Just Ordered A Seymour Duncan Diamondhead Pedal

[Jeffblue]

I heard several youtube videos and liked what I heard enough to convince the wife to let me buy it.
https://youtu.be/-j-rEtNGAtg

 

[Mincer]

You have to come back and give a review. Not many people here even know about that pedal.

 

[dave74]

I read through this when they sent it a few days back. I really like the looks of the Palladium! Great design and with para-mids.

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/diamondhead

 

[jeremy]

i like the palladium a lot. i got one cause i liked the idea of it and heard robben ford say that he liked it. i totally get what he said and its a great pedal. its like a good tuned 5150 preamp with a lot of eq control. for me, its not really my sound (which robben also said) but it feels and sounds damn good. i think the diamond head is more tonally in my ball park so curious how you like it

 

[Artie]

i like the palladium a lot. i got one cause i liked the idea of it and heard robben ford say that he liked it. i totally get what he said and its a great pedal. its like a good tuned 5150 preamp with a lot of eq control. for me, its not really my sound (which robben also said) but it feels and sounds damn good. i think the diamond head is more tonally in my ball park so curious how you like it

It's funny. I'm kinda in this same boat. Loved 'em both when I first got them. (Palladium and 5150, I mean.) But I just was swapping them side by side with my Tri-Parallel mixer, and relized that neither is really my cup 'o tea. I'll have to decide what to do with them. Or try tweaking them a bit more to my flavor.

 

[Spirit of 76]

I normally prefer a Fuzz sound over a Distortion sound, but I must say...this thing sounds pretty bad ass. :headbang:

 

[Erlend_G]

Parametric mids!

...one thing I've dreamed of having, ever since I lost my Peavey Centurion 130w head (that had a fully parametric midrange, WITH Q-control) :/.

Very few pedals (except too-expensive studio ones) seem to have this feature.

Hope you will be pleased.

-Erl

 

[Mincer]

Yeah, parametric mids are really a great thing to have. The ENGL Steve Morse head has like 5 knobs dedicated to mids, and you can get a ton of sounds out of it. A few mid controls in a pedal is a really great idea.

 

[Demanic]

What is the advantage of parametric vs something like a 31 band 1/3 octave graphic , aside from the amount of space that it takes up?

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[jeremy]

if you had a 31 band eq built into the pedal, i dont know if parametic mids would matter. the difference is its practical to put a two knob mid eq in a pedal and not so much 31 sliders

being able to select the frequency center to boost or cut on a dirt pedal is really nice

 

[Demanic]

I wasn't thinking so much for a pedal as a full size amp head.
Certainly in a pedal parametric can be much more space saving.


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[Demanic]

Makes me want an amp with parametric or two in the pre-gain and a 31 band for the power stage.

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[jeremy]

thats a lot of control for sure but never seen an amp with even an 11 band graphic eq and im sure its usually at the end of the preamp chain, not in the power section. not sure how that would work.

 

[Demanic]

thats a lot of control for sure but never seen an amp with even an 11 band graphic eq and im sure its usually at the end of the preamp chain, not in the power section. not sure how that would work.

If I had the cash to do so, believe me, I'd find out.

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[Demanic]

thats a lot of control for sure but never seen an amp with even an 11 band graphic eq and im sure its usually at the end of the preamp chain, not in the power section. not sure how that would work.

And I probably meant that the graphic would go at the end of the preamp before the power stage. But the standard b/m/t tone stack would be replaced by three parametrics.

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[jeremy]

trying to figure out how to put the eq in the power section. if its post power tubes (assuming a tube amp) youd have to have a very high power eq to deal with all the output, if its pre power tubes it wouldnt need to be as robust but youd have less control and wouldnt be much different than being in the preamp

 

[jeremy]

ah, gotcha. that would be easier for sure. not really different than putting a graphic eq in the fx loop except built in

 

[Demanic]

Exactly. Really I suppose that it would only work with something like a class D amp.
But having the tone controls being parametric, at least in a tube amp, could be very interesting.

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[jeremy]

i wouldnt think it would be overly difficult to do. probably too confusing for the masses which is why we dont see it. its much easier to get a terrible sound if you have that much control

 

[Artie]

This is one of the reasons that I love my BBE Acoustimax, (even for electric guitar), so much. It has parametric mid control that spans from 400 Hz to 2.5 kHz, and a parametric mid notch control that spans from 70 Hz to 250 Hz. It's a lot of tonal control at about half the price of the Palladium.