Incoming!!! (show Us Your New Stuff Before You Actually Have It)

Lol I wasn’t saying how it’s supposed to be pronounced, just how my friend with that name pronounces it
 
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I've been using a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive at the end of my chain, with almost no grit, as a subtle tone shaper. You know, like a preamp? Well, it was malfunctioning on me at a festival gig earlier today, and rather than get it fixed, I started thinking about a pedal for which I've been gassing for a long time now. I found a used one on the interwebz, and pulled the trigger.



 
I used to use the Sadowsky pre on the end of my board
But it would react with the Diamond Comp

Something to do with voltage

I've not tried any of the MXR gear but a mate really likes the Octave pedal
 
Currently using the MXR 10band EQ in conjunction with the Cal76cb compressor instead of either my preamps. My signal is now very pleasing. I boost 62.5 and 125hz but cut 31.25hz and also lift the treble at 8k and 16k a little, the mids are all flat.

The MXR is really good. I think the pre pedal will be great as well. Let us know what you think of it please.
 
Nachobassman said:
I tried a sub-octave effect from Palmer few years ago and, to be honest, I didn't like it. Ended up buying an Ashdown/Dr. Green OctaDose.

The Palmer pedal looked and feeled very sturdy and well made, tho.
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I paid 29 Euro and it does what it has to do. But nothing more. It doesn’t add „juice“ to the sound. Maybe I will try another one some day.
 
Yeah I am hoping it can replace my separate od and fuzz boxes.
Feeding a fuzz with a little od gives it that creamy tone but requires different settings then when using either solo, which you simply can't do in between songs on the gig.
This pedal hopefully solves that problem. If not, I will simply use it for guitar only.
 
DiMarco said:
The MXR is really good. I think the pre pedal will be great as well. Let us know what you think of it please.
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Having unboxed it and played with it for all of 15 minutes, here are my first impressions.

Set flat, it's subtle, but not exactly transparent. There's a bit of punch added, as if it's compressing the signal a bit. It brings out the percussive parts in a slap line in exactly the fashion a compressor does.

It's definitely clean. There is no OD to be had in this pre. That's OK: that's exactly what I wanted.

It has both input and output level controls. I thought I'd get more dramatic results by raising the input and lowering the output, but the reverse seemed to be true.

The EQ is powerful. I'm not quite sure yet if I'm going to set it nearly flat and use it always on, or maybe dial in a mid-scoop and just use it when slapping.

The DI is high-quality. I'd have no problem using this in the studio.

Overall I'm very pleased so far. It's definitely going on the board, at least for now. I have a rehearsal tomorrow night, and a gig next Friday, so those will provide more adequate testing grounds.
 
It arrived and is built like a tank plus normal size. Mine has the limited edition black face with orange accents instead of vice versa. Had a quick run through with my Hyperjazz and it so far seems to be really good.

More extensive testing tomorrow.

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