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BJFE Guitar Effects BJFE Blueberry
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Average Price
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100% of reviewers
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$350.00
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10.0
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Description:
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This is short for Bass Overdrive unit. It's an overdrive unit designed to fit the requirements of today's demanding Bass players. A palette of distorted sounds can be employed at foot-switch.
This circuit is the result of suggestions from leading bassists who have shared their thoughts on how they'd want a bass overdrive to work with the designer.
Distortion in bass amps has made some skid marks in music history from Everly Brothers (along with a few other Country and Western artists) through John Entwistle of The WHO, through Lemmy of Motörhead, Bootsy Collins of P Funk. Each showing different uses of distortion.
These are the key features that are the basis of the Blue Berry BOD design:
1. As flat as possible frequency response, and as far possible, make it sound integral to amplifier.
2. Wide range of distortions: from light transient clipping to massive compressed bass fuzz.
3. Dynamic feel at low to medium settings with diffuse clipping knee, id est. ability to travel through different shades of distortions.
4 Heavy duty design for reliability.
5. Battery monitor built in - when battery runs low LED-lights gets dim.
6. Low current draw for added battery-life.
7. Security: the unit must compile with standards set for this intended use.
8. Boost capability for additional overdrive from the amplifier used.
9. A tone-control for the sensitive low-end - use less bass for higher settings of DRIVE for better clarity in chord play. Use full bass even at full DRIVE for a bass synth effect
10. A nice colour: this one's the colour of mashed blue berries.
12. Complete bypass - something almost mandatory these days.
13. Original Circuit.
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Author
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N8116B
Registered User
Registered: January 2008
Location: Earth
Posts: 264
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Review Date: Sat March 7, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $350.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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The sounds, clarirty, ease of use, unque look
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Cons:
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Hard to find and expensive
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Wow! How did I live without this pedal??
Great OD some strangeness in the tone control operation but a little bit of fiddling and you can get some awesome sounds out if it. I could hardly believe what life it blows into one's sound. I played this peddle with my BassBalls and got some awesome tone and effects, the rest of the pedals may just get put away as that was all I needed to make me happy.
In the US these are currently hard to come by. They can be found new in Europe and used here in the US, they are worth every cent.
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Scott
Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.
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