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11-26-2011, 09:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | Just got my Pickle Pie B
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Just got my Wren & Cuff Pickle Pie B last night.
This thing is wicked awesome. I'm loving the clean blend!!
One question though:
I'm A/Bing it with my Grey Stache and I'm realizing the PPB's tone knob is really trebly until I move it into the 9oclock range. As in, it feels like the tone is dominated by more treble way past the range it should normally be.
It feels like a middle range is not even, it feels really lopsided.
Does that make sense? I know I'm not crazy! |
11-26-2011, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jacksonville and Pensacola, FL | | | I really want to try a PPB. I've wanted one when he was making the original Pickle Pie, and I thought it sounded great without the mids switch. But its a little out of my price range.
As for the tone control, I know what you mean. I've played with fuzzes that have a lot of treble with the tone control. But even if the entire range isn't useable, I don't see why you would need to move it around much.
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11-27-2011, 05:15 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: London, England | | | The PPb tone control is a strange and beautiful thing. I is VERY trebly, with the tone at 9 o'clock you've got some deep bass and some brightish highs and what seems like a massive mid scoop, however as you bring the tone up it seems to add high mids back in. Without the clean blend i'd say forget about using it on bass after 11 o'clock on the tone control.
HOWEVER, i've found a setting that just sounds like an awesome distortion rather than a fuzz, it slices through any band mix and is keeping me very happy. AND means that i can still keep my Sovtek muff for wooly doomy sounds.
Volume: Max
Saturation: Min
Tone: between 12-1pm
Blend: this is the magic bullet - use this as a volume control, so at minimum you're all clean, and within a quarter of a turn you've got a massive distorted bass tone and due to the way the clean blend is engineered, it doesnt sound artifically slapped on to your clean tone.
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11-27-2011, 08:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK | | | Blend Wetter -> tone @ 9 o'clock ish.
Blend drier -> tone wherever you like.
But I agree, I would prefer a smoother taper.
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11-27-2011, 09:49 AM
|  | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | | On the origional pickle, they didn't bother to call it a tone knob... rather a 'filter'. |
11-27-2011, 04:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DosiYanarchy The PPb tone control is a strange and beautiful thing. I is VERY trebly, with the tone at 9 o'clock you've got some deep bass and some brightish highs and what seems like a massive mid scoop, however as you bring the tone up it seems to add high mids back in. Without the clean blend i'd say forget about using it on bass after 11 o'clock on the tone control.
HOWEVER, i've found a setting that just sounds like an awesome distortion rather than a fuzz, it slices through any band mix and is keeping me very happy. AND means that i can still keep my Sovtek muff for wooly doomy sounds.
Volume: Max
Saturation: Min
Tone: between 12-1pm
Blend: this is the magic bullet - use this as a volume control, so at minimum you're all clean, and within a quarter of a turn you've got a massive distorted bass tone and due to the way the clean blend is engineered, it doesnt sound artifically slapped on to your clean tone. | thanks for the tips! |
11-27-2011, 04:40 PM
|  | Jack Grundle and Chad Choad
Builder for FUZZROCIOUS PEDALS | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Mount Laurel, NJ | | | Also, you get spoiled with a Grey Stache because of that mids knob. The GS and PPB each have different tones to offer, ya know.
That blend should make a big difference if you like your clean tone in there! |
11-27-2011, 05:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rratajski Also, you get spoiled with a Grey Stache because of that mids knob. The GS and PPB each have different tones to offer, ya know.
That blend should make a big difference if you like your clean tone in there! | Oh I realized this. I A/B'd them with the mid knob pretty even.
And the blend is amazing. I am soloing my neck pickup and really digging in...whew! |
11-27-2011, 05:24 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by grygrx On the origional pickle, they didn't bother to call it a tone knob... rather a 'filter'. | Exactly. It's way different than any other "tone" knob I've dealt with.
Oh, and try extreem setting on the volume and sustain knob as well. You may find it can get waaaaaay more tones than you think. |
11-27-2011, 11:58 PM
|  | yiffffffTASTIC | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: California | | | MAN i love the PPB.
i use it as the buzzsaw cut through EVARTHANG counterpoint to the deep throated and/or gated'ness of the TAFM.
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