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Barber Electronics LTD Special Recipe
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100% of reviewers
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$149.39
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9.0
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Description:
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Volume
Tone
Gain
True Bypass
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jam.majors
Registered User
Registered: March 2009
Location: Louisville, Ky
Posts: 238
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Review Date: Tue April 28, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $148.77
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Good build, great control/tone, extra tone pots inside
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Cons:
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No easy access battery compartment
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I tried several different mild overdrives and really enjoyed this LTD. I also gave the other LTD a shot, but this one does have a more transparent tone.
The greatest thing is how this responds to playing styles. If you set it right you can get a little fatness (sans OD) that will turn to OD if you dig just slightly harder. Then if you go slamming into it, you'll get a lot of OD out of it.
I was able to get the same sort of tracking from the Fulltone Bass Drive, but the BD lacked a certain sweetness to the OD.
As always, play as many as you can before you make a decision! This was the 14th pedal I played on before I found goodness.
(One last thing: my bass has an 18v preamp [Tobias Killer B], and that would cause several pedals to compress if my volume was 100%. None of the barber pedals, the Fulltone, or the T-Rex Bass Juice did. The 18v issue was what killed it for several other pedals.)
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GenzBenz Shuttle 6.0 & Aguilar GS112
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steve_rolfeca
Registered User
Registered: November 2006
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2907
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Review Date: Tue February 2, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $150.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Clarity, flexibility, ease of use
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Haven't found any yet
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I originally bought this for electric guitar (sorry, guys), but was surprised to find that it works well for bass as well.
The Barber is definitely at the low-gain end of the spectrum- it excels at clean to just-barely-dirty tones. Maxed out, it has a little less crunch than the Tim or Danelectro Transparent Overdrive pedals. It's very dynamic, cleaning up nicely when you lighten your attack. I haven't a clue how to describe the distortion- it's smoother and less grindy than a Sansamp, but not fizzy like a Vox.
Tone-wise, this true bypass pedal is extremely uncoloured, without the typical midrange bump that most guitar OD pedals go for.
The tone control is interesting- a slope, rather than a typical single-knob tone control. The neutral setting is somewhere between noon and one o'clock, depending on how much drive is dialed up. Turning the knob to the left cuts highs and boosts the low end, while turning it to the right cuts the bass and boosts the treble. Easy to describe in words, but you really have to hear it, to understand just how intuitive and musical this tone control is.
With the drive down and the volume up, the pedal has enough gain to be used as a clean boost if needed. Thanks to the subtlety of the tone control, you can use the Barber to warm things up just a little when it's in this mode, without sounding processed in a way that you can put your finger on. Very cool.
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