Recent content by sifrancis

Glad the Mantic Hulk worked out well for you! Love Mantic, love that pedal! Yes - the Pork and Pickle goes great with my Serek and other short scales. I will add that it's not a particularly touch-sensitive/dynamic drive, but I continually find it just does something in a mix that both adds...

I absolutely adore the Pork and Pickle. Two very good, and absolutely "classic" pedals in a tiny enclosure (if you have the "smalls" model), and for the price of one. The clean blend is absolutely fantastic - its brit preamp character is exactly what helps it blend well with the dirty signal...

I have both the Greathammer, and a Rusty Box (and also the Moose Electronics Cosmic Trigger - another TS inspired pedal, with Acoustic 360 style EQ). The Greathammer is proving to be my go-to for gain tones (low, mid, or high), more than clean or edge-of-breakup. It has a lower noise floor, is...

I have a EUNA and have been using it pretty solidly for the last 3 years. It's a great buffer, that does that job very well - with EQ switches off it is clear and transparent, and I have found it useful at maintaining clear and consistent tone regardless of cable length from bass to board...

I am very interested in the new smaller Khan VTDI - I absolutely adore that DI, and if Obeid is able to keep much of that sonic identity in a smaller footprint that would be a major win all around. re: power - personally if it was possible to work with either 9v or 12v that would be great for...

Received my Greathammer today. WOW! Really throaty and growly, and more low end available than I could have ever hoped for. I love how there is still that interactivity between the bass, attack, notch, and gain controls, but they've also been dialed in to feel more intuitive/predictable than...

Paul Grigsby's tone on all the JPT Scare Band is just amazing - Their track "King Rat" is a great example of higher gain bass tone. It's a classic, both clunky and wiry (Thom Yorke playing bass on this I believe). JMJ with Beck, drive pushing on distortion, with phaser.... so much to...

Incredible! Those original pickups sound amazing - your demos of this reproduction are wonderful. What is the required wiring for these; are you providing a matching transformer with the pickup(s)?

Funnily, what I heard in the video with Janek was more compelling than what I'd heard in the official videos - I really sensed more of the feel of it and how it responds to the player, and their instrument. 100% this has used expensive components - the material costs of the two transformers...

Yes - although the input transformer on the Colourbox is only for the XLR input I believe.

I'm very interested to hear more thoughts once this has been in more hands. Definitely nothing else that quite does what this is doing, and they are definitely going for a studio preamp/eq in pedal form. Most pedal preamps/DIs don't have both input and output transformers, and the stepped...

The Arp OMNI 2 bass voice is a Square Wave with a 2 pole Low Pass Filter. The very first couple measures are a single octave and then they add in a high octave when the drums come in. Short bit of release on the volume envelop - doesn't sound like much envelope modulation on the filter at all...

Are you able to speak more to how the MXR compares to the other synth pedals you have? I have both the Future Impact v4 and Source Audio C4, which I use heavily both live and in the studio. The C4 is likely to remain my primary live pedal, as I just know it so well at this point, and have so...

Depends on the octave and the player - fast disco style octave jump parts can sometimes lead to glitches in analogue octave divider circuits if the playing/muting isn't clean. Same way that a dead note on a bass often freaks out an octave divider circuit; the unbalanced mix of harmonics to...

Tracking on octave jumps is always tricky sadly, whatever the synth pedal or octave (analogue or digital) - as the tracking is needing to discern whether the octave change is just harmonic information of the note changing or an actual octave up. Controlled muting (both fretting and plucking...