Hello, my bassy bretheren. If any of you are over on ILF, you probably want to skip this, but I just got a chance to play a Fuzzhugger(fx) Chalice on bass, and really dug the results. Tom at Fuzzhugger has been getting a lot of attention for his more out-there custom stuff lately, which is a shame since some of his more straight-ahead offerings are pretty dang badass.
For me, this is a very interesting and versatile fuzz - more "tight" than "wooly," and capable of getting dying battery sounds, but without sounding overly buzzy or harsh in its medium (but still plenty fuzzy) saturated settings (you can certainly get harsh & supersaturated if that's what you're looking for). I took a little time and cooked up a demo mp3 (sigh, still no video capabilities), but it's a bit large to post here, so you can download it (please make with the right clicky + save) at:
http://www.ellisonrocks.com/FHx_Chalicetest.mp3
For those interested in such things, my signal chain went: Fender Jazz bass > Fuzzhugger Chalice > M-audio Fast Track Pro > compooter. If people want, I can post the knob settings, but suffice it to say, I start out clean and play the same riff over and over, getting increasingly fuzzy/saturated until I just get sick of myself at the very end and try to get "down and funky" on a dying battery-ish setting. Needless to say, the real funk players of the world have nothing to worry about in terms of me being a musical threat.
The Chalice, on the other hand, is a serious weapon of mass fuzzstruction!
