Merry happy from the British...free samples for the kids!

[JimmyM]

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/...%20samples.mp3

here are some samples of my new Sansamp British Character pedal, hot off the press...

1. bypassed
2. clean set "flat" as going by dannybuoy's flat settings for the vt
3. Black Dog
4. Substitute
5. Roundabout
6. War Pigs
7. For Whom The Bell Tolls
8. White Room

i just set these tones quickly to get an approximation of the tones you'd really hear, so don't go nitpicking on me.

anyway, the verdict so far is thumbs up. i absolutely love it on guitar. on bass it has its moments, too. it definitely sounds more like a Marshall than the VT, although there is some overlap. i don't know if it will be bottomy enough for what I do, though. marshall guitar amps aren't known for their tremendous bass response. but i'll be using it on my next gig and we'll see how she does. unfortunately, the next gig I can use it on is NYE so i'll have to wonder until then.

EDIT: New clips with the bass response up some more:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/...amples%202.mp3

[ryansalmond]

Thank you for posting this.

[MaxMaps]

Jimmy! when is the avatar coming back!? I miss it so

[jumbo_steelie]

Great clips jimmy.....sansamp should pay you r-o-y-a-l-t-i-e-s mang......

[JimmyM]

max, i'm waiting a couple months to move my tb payment a little farther away from christmas.

jumbo, i agree. i estimate at least 4 people bought the vt on my recommendation, and only 2 sold it 3 months later. but one guy bought another one.

[rasthedoctor]

I gather these are samples of a pedal that emulates an amp, in this case a Marshal and it's called a British? Probably made by the people who made the VT? Just wondering b/c I can't find any explicit info in any of the posts.

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/...%20samples.mp3

here are some samples, hot off the press...

1. bypassed
2. clean set "flat" as going by dannybuoy's flat settings for the vt
3. Black Dog
4. Substitute
5. Roundabout
6. War Pigs
7. For Whom The Bell Tolls
8. White Room

i just set these tones quickly to get an approximation of the tones you'd really hear, so don't go nitpicking on me.

anyway, the verdict so far is thumbs up. i absolutely love it on guitar. on bass it has its moments, too. it definitely sounds more like a Marshall than the VT, although there is some overlap. i don't know if it will be bottomy enough for what I do, though. marshall guitar amps aren't known for their tremendous bass response. but i'll be using it on my next gig and we'll see how she does. unfortunately, the next gig I can use it on is NYE so i'll have to wonder until then.

Thanks for posting these British samples Jimmy. They add a further perspective to the overdrive capabilities of Tech 21's Character Series pedals.

Based upon what I've just heard here, and upon my own twiddlings with the VT Bass' overdrive settings, I hope that VT Bass 2.0 incorporates the ability to have a concurrent clean amp + dirty amp setting as one of its pre-set options.

[gibsualdo]

Awesome, it can do clean (unlike the GT2 on "British")!! That's it, I'm effing getting one!

Digging the War Pigs setting too, cheers for the clips, Jimmy

[MAMMOTHvolume]

is this one of those sansamp jobbies that everyone claims sounds really like an overdriven valve amp?

[Loel]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

max, i'm waiting a couple months to move my tb payment a little farther away from christmas.

jumbo, i agree. i estimate at least 4 people bought the vt on my recommendation, and only 2 sold it 3 months later. but one guy bought another one.

Nah! 5 ppl Jimmy love my VT,it ain't for sale..

nice clips

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by MAMMOTHvolume

is this one of those sansamp jobbies that everyone claims sounds really like an overdriven valve amp?

Yes it is. I believe that it's the Tech 21 'British' Character Series pedal which is supposed to sound like a Marshall amp as much as the VT Bass is supposed to sound like an SVT.

It's been a long time since I've played through an actual SVT+2x8x10 rig so I can't declare that the VT Bass sounds exactly like the real McCoy, but it is very reminiscent of an SVT and it does sound quite musical.

It's also about 364.5 lbs. lighter.

[JimmyM]

fixed it...yes, it's the sansamp british. and mij, i'll do it for you...you can't cop the FEEL of the SVT with the VT, but you can cop the tones to the letter.

[rasthedoctor]

Very cool - thanks for the clarification Jimmy!

[JimmyM]

hmmm...either i posted this at a bad time or it's not going over too well with you guys. oh well, i'm digging it, but i do still worry that it won't be bottomy enough. maybe that's the problem...?

[DosiYanarchy]

jimmy, the clips sound great, not sure if im convinced about the low end retention (although I didnt really expect it to hold much as its a Marshal emulator). but I'd love to try one myself - gets alot fo classic tones, and all your tones sounded really great. beautiful treble response.

[MIJ-VI]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

hmmm...either i posted this at a bad time or it's not going over too well with you guys. oh well, i'm digging it, but i do still worry that it won't be bottomy enough. maybe that's the problem...?

Perhaps the British CS pedal has a HPF which slopes @ 80Hz?

[JimmyM]

thx dosi! yeah it definitely sounds more high passed than the vt or the clips i heard of the blonde. i bought it more for a guitar pedal so i'm cool with that, but i would really like to use it with bass, too. didn't want to have to run it through the loop on my microbass, but it looks like that may be the only way to get it to work on bass. that last clip with white room is the sound i'd use live...that trashy british 60's flatwound twang like the dave clark five or the troggs. the ampeg gets close but it's a little too refined.

[MIJ-VI]

Can you do a VT + British clean amp/dirty amp split?

[JimmyM]

i could but i don't want to. next thing you know you're plugging cords in for an hour

[MIJ-VI]

Plan B: *tries to remember which SVT channel doesn't have a mid control*