ratherdashing
Kablamminator
Remember last week how I posted that I tried out a Bad Monkey and found one usable setting? I said that if the bypass were better it would be a nice pedal? Remember that?
Forget all about that. Forget anything I ever said about the Bad Monkey. It no longer matters.
Today pinto79 and I and drove down to Tapestry Music to try out some pedals. They have the best high end pedal selection in Metro Vancouver. I had a goal, and I knew that if they couldn't meet my needs no one could.
The knowledgeable salesman gave me an American Standard Ash Tele (excellent guitar btw) and after I said "something Vox-y please" plugged me into a 65 Amps Soho (really, really good clean amp). Here's what I tried today:
- MI Audio Crunch Box
- MI Audio Blues Boy Deluxe
- Way Huge Pork Loin
- Way Huge Fat Sandwich
- some kind of twin OD/Distortion pedal whose name I for get and isn't worth talking about (even though the guy said people thought it was awesome).
The Crunch Box and Fat Sandwich are distortion pedals, and since neither sounds better than the Box of Rock/Distortron they're out of the running. If I find a distortion that can beat the sheer chunky power of Mr. Vexter's brilliant creations I will be very surprised. That said, the Crunch Box is pretty impressive, and Mr Pinto in particular was a big fan. If you want Master of Puppets in a box, this is your pedal. As for the Fat Sandwich, it absolutely NAILS Blackmore. At Pinto's request, I dropped my pick and played Smoke on the Water, and it was right on.
The Blues Boy Deluxe is what I came for, and it did not disappoint. It's a highly versatile low-to-medium gain OD. I would definitely be able to make use of it, but it's not quite as nice as ...
... the Pork Loin. Wow. Exactly what I wanted! The ability to blend clean back in is really cool. For those who don't know, this pedal has a "British preamp" in the front, followed by an OD circuit and a low pass filter (the tone control). When you turn up the blend control, you let some of the signal from the preamp bypass the OD section, which enables you to fatten up your tone and add a bit of grit without making everything sound distorted.
I dialed in the Pork Loin such that it gave me a sweet, country-ish OD with the Tele's volume up all the way, and a fat clean with the volume backed off. Very, very cool.
Bypass is great, dynamics are great, build quality is awesome ... I'm sold.
So, in a couple months when I don't have to spend money on movers and such, my pedal board will consist of the following dirt boxes:
- Pork Loin
- Distortron
- Raptor
Yay!
Forget all about that. Forget anything I ever said about the Bad Monkey. It no longer matters.
Today pinto79 and I and drove down to Tapestry Music to try out some pedals. They have the best high end pedal selection in Metro Vancouver. I had a goal, and I knew that if they couldn't meet my needs no one could.
The knowledgeable salesman gave me an American Standard Ash Tele (excellent guitar btw) and after I said "something Vox-y please" plugged me into a 65 Amps Soho (really, really good clean amp). Here's what I tried today:
- MI Audio Crunch Box
- MI Audio Blues Boy Deluxe
- Way Huge Pork Loin
- Way Huge Fat Sandwich
- some kind of twin OD/Distortion pedal whose name I for get and isn't worth talking about (even though the guy said people thought it was awesome).
The Crunch Box and Fat Sandwich are distortion pedals, and since neither sounds better than the Box of Rock/Distortron they're out of the running. If I find a distortion that can beat the sheer chunky power of Mr. Vexter's brilliant creations I will be very surprised. That said, the Crunch Box is pretty impressive, and Mr Pinto in particular was a big fan. If you want Master of Puppets in a box, this is your pedal. As for the Fat Sandwich, it absolutely NAILS Blackmore. At Pinto's request, I dropped my pick and played Smoke on the Water, and it was right on.
The Blues Boy Deluxe is what I came for, and it did not disappoint. It's a highly versatile low-to-medium gain OD. I would definitely be able to make use of it, but it's not quite as nice as ...
... the Pork Loin. Wow. Exactly what I wanted! The ability to blend clean back in is really cool. For those who don't know, this pedal has a "British preamp" in the front, followed by an OD circuit and a low pass filter (the tone control). When you turn up the blend control, you let some of the signal from the preamp bypass the OD section, which enables you to fatten up your tone and add a bit of grit without making everything sound distorted.
I dialed in the Pork Loin such that it gave me a sweet, country-ish OD with the Tele's volume up all the way, and a fat clean with the volume backed off. Very, very cool.
Bypass is great, dynamics are great, build quality is awesome ... I'm sold.
So, in a couple months when I don't have to spend money on movers and such, my pedal board will consist of the following dirt boxes:
- Pork Loin
- Distortron
- Raptor
Yay!
