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05-01-2008, 03:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: San Francisco, California | | | Transparent Grit is what I want
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OK, so I want to dirty up my tone in the cleanest way possible 
What this means is I want dirty--maybe a lot, maybe a little--but I want it to JUST be dirt. I don't want SansAmp Emulation Circuitry and a blend knob that doesn't allow grit without it! |
05-01-2008, 11:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by improvpwnd  OK, so I want to dirty up my tone in the cleanest way possible
What this means is I want dirty--maybe a lot, maybe a little--but I want it to JUST be dirt. I don't want SansAmp Emulation Circuitry and a blend knob that doesn't allow grit without it! | graphic fuzz? Not that I use it or even like it myself... but it sounds like you WANT a nu-metal fusion of clean and dirty, so there you go. |
05-01-2008, 12:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Francisco | | | You could try turning up the preamp gain on your amp. |
05-01-2008, 02:39 PM
| | | | Are you talking about dirt without colouring your tone?
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05-01-2008, 04:31 PM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | I'm really having a hard time wrapping my head around *** you're actually looking for. |
05-01-2008, 06:30 PM
| | | | whats your price range?
you could go with aguilar's agro preamp |
05-01-2008, 10:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northern illinois | | | some kind of distortion/overdrive in a blendable loop? |
05-01-2008, 10:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Cambridge, ON | | | I would go for an Analogman modded TS-9 tubescreamer. It is as transparent as heck and the grit it does give sounds amazing.
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05-01-2008, 11:13 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | There are plenty of pedals that are transparent in different ways, but by and large you can always expect some coloration, at least in my experience. Definitely not so much as with a Sansamp though. There have been many threads about getting "grit" before, I'd recommend searching through them and seeing what you could learn. |
05-01-2008, 11:38 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by improvpwnd OK, so I want to dirty up my tone in the cleanest way possible
What this means is I want dirty--maybe a lot, maybe a little--but I want it to JUST be dirt. I don't want SansAmp Emulation Circuitry and a blend knob that doesn't allow grit without it! | try a Barber LTD SR. "cleanest" dirt i've ever used. (some info here.)
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05-02-2008, 01:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Norway | | If I understood you right, and you want some grit which doesn't colour your tone too much, the EBS MultiDrive is worth checking out.
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05-02-2008, 10:52 AM
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05-02-2008, 12:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NYC | | | Something with a blend, such as a Sparkle Drive or a NOC3 Pure Drive will enable you to dial in your clean tone, while overlaying your overdriven tone on top to help retain that clean body to your tone.
otherwise the Fulltone OCD, or Fulltone Bassdrive in Comp-Cut mode might be worth trying out.
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05-02-2008, 12:57 PM
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05-02-2008, 01:04 PM
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05-02-2008, 04:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Annapolis, MD | | I went out today and bought a Barber LTD SR because of this thread.
Its amazingly true to my clean tone.
I'll post a review tomorrow after band practice.  |
05-03-2008, 01:02 AM
| | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by opivy3056 I went out today and bought a Barber LTD SR because of this thread.
Its amazingly true to my clean tone.
I'll post a review tomorrow after band practice. | that's what i'm sayin'.
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05-03-2008, 05:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | Ha ha ha! When I first read this thread title I though it said 'Transparent Girl Is What I Want'!
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05-03-2008, 06:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Bergen Norway | | | Yes the EBS Multidrive! But only on the middle setting (std) on the small switch. It's a winner, you _must_ try this one. I tried a few pedals the other day, but only the EBS pedal (on this STD setting and "low settings"), gave me what I believe you want. Let us know what you think! |
05-03-2008, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by thejohnkim Something with a blend, such as a Sparkle Drive or a NOC3 Pure Drive will enable you to dial in your clean tone, while overlaying your overdriven tone on top to help retain that clean body to your tone.
otherwise the Fulltone OCD, or Fulltone Bassdrive in Comp-Cut mode might be worth trying out. | +1000 Vodoo Labs Sparkle Drive...$129.99
I recently had the same want and this is what i bought sounds fantastic...
This is an overdrive pedal based on the vintage TS808 format, it includes the original JRC4558 opamp, but has been modded with metal resistors and polyester capacitors which creates a tighter midrange, a crsiper high, and overall IMHO a far better capacity for note definition than the original 808. They have also added a clean boost channel which allows you to blend the clean signal with the overdrive circut. This allows you to boost the direct clean signal which in turn restores the attack and feel which is usually lost in most pedals when the signal is compressed in the ovedrive circut.
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