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Published on 02/26/13 at 06:03It is a dual Octave (octave below and / or above the octave) coupled to a fuzz. Both effects are not totally independent, and must spend a little time with the machine to understand what we can do with it.
This is a 100% analog pedal that works with 9V battery or Boss style power.
UTILIZATION
It's not the easiest pedal to use in the world, but with two in common sense, it comes out very quickly.
It is controlled via two footswitches and a mini switch called "sub into fuzz" (only activated by hand). To this is added 5 rotary knobs (volume, tone, fuzz, sub octave and octave up).
The footswitch activates the left octave below, and there are two possibilities:
- If the mini switch "into sub fuzz" is disabled, you get only the octave below in addition to our basic sound. In this case the knob "volume" manages our level of its base and knob "sub octave" of the octave below.
- If the mini switch "into sub fuzz" is engaged, a fuzz is applied to our basic sound AND an octave below. In this case the volume knob manages the overall output level of the knob "fuzz" the rate of gain of the fuzz, and the knob "sub octave" still manages the volume of the octave below.
That said, we can only get more sounds with the first switch:
- The basic sound + octave below, all without fuzz.
- The basic sound + octave below, all with the fuzz.
- The basic sound and fuzz without the octave below (with the knob "sub octave" 0).
- The octave below without fuzz and without sound basis (volume knob to 0), short bass sound anything!
Finally, if you activate the right footswitch, the octave above appears, coupled with a fuzz.
Two remarks:
- You can not get the top octave fuzz WITHOUT associated with it.
- You can not get this octave above ONLY if the switch itself is left enabled.
That said, playing with volume settings, you can make disappear the sound one octave below, which keeps only the fundamental tone and the octave above.
Writing is not easy to be understood, but the pedal under the eyes, while it quickly becomes very logical. He said it would have been possible to make more intuitive, hence the 7/10.
SOUND QUALITY
Firstly, this is not a otaver polyphonic style POG, so we forget the open chords and organ sounds.
This is a pedal Riffer or soloist. In this area, if you search sounds thick and distorted soundscapes and loaded, it is huge, and sound capabilities are very broad, if indeed that is a bit patient to understand its operation.
The sound quality is there, the fuzz reminiscent of the famous "FUZZFACE" from Dunlop and the different sounds are very successful (if you plug it into a good tube amp of course).
Followers of stoner, metal, rock, hairy and / or industrial, it should please you!
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 15 days and I have not toured the wide possibilities that sound pretty box can offer, but I am amazed rendering!
This is a very particular, which in my opinion has nothing to do with Slash, but it is the rigor cares.
I think this is very successful, and it completely meets my expectations. The only downside might therefore be a grip a little chaotic at first, not a fuss.
This is a 100% analog pedal that works with 9V battery or Boss style power.
UTILIZATION
It's not the easiest pedal to use in the world, but with two in common sense, it comes out very quickly.
It is controlled via two footswitches and a mini switch called "sub into fuzz" (only activated by hand). To this is added 5 rotary knobs (volume, tone, fuzz, sub octave and octave up).
The footswitch activates the left octave below, and there are two possibilities:
- If the mini switch "into sub fuzz" is disabled, you get only the octave below in addition to our basic sound. In this case the knob "volume" manages our level of its base and knob "sub octave" of the octave below.
- If the mini switch "into sub fuzz" is engaged, a fuzz is applied to our basic sound AND an octave below. In this case the volume knob manages the overall output level of the knob "fuzz" the rate of gain of the fuzz, and the knob "sub octave" still manages the volume of the octave below.
That said, we can only get more sounds with the first switch:
- The basic sound + octave below, all without fuzz.
- The basic sound + octave below, all with the fuzz.
- The basic sound and fuzz without the octave below (with the knob "sub octave" 0).
- The octave below without fuzz and without sound basis (volume knob to 0), short bass sound anything!
Finally, if you activate the right footswitch, the octave above appears, coupled with a fuzz.
Two remarks:
- You can not get the top octave fuzz WITHOUT associated with it.
- You can not get this octave above ONLY if the switch itself is left enabled.
That said, playing with volume settings, you can make disappear the sound one octave below, which keeps only the fundamental tone and the octave above.
Writing is not easy to be understood, but the pedal under the eyes, while it quickly becomes very logical. He said it would have been possible to make more intuitive, hence the 7/10.
SOUND QUALITY
Firstly, this is not a otaver polyphonic style POG, so we forget the open chords and organ sounds.
This is a pedal Riffer or soloist. In this area, if you search sounds thick and distorted soundscapes and loaded, it is huge, and sound capabilities are very broad, if indeed that is a bit patient to understand its operation.
The sound quality is there, the fuzz reminiscent of the famous "FUZZFACE" from Dunlop and the different sounds are very successful (if you plug it into a good tube amp of course).
Followers of stoner, metal, rock, hairy and / or industrial, it should please you!
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 15 days and I have not toured the wide possibilities that sound pretty box can offer, but I am amazed rendering!
This is a very particular, which in my opinion has nothing to do with Slash, but it is the rigor cares.
I think this is very successful, and it completely meets my expectations. The only downside might therefore be a grip a little chaotic at first, not a fuss.