Damnation Audio Fan/Appreciation Thread

[Grahams Groove]

So to be honest I don't think they stack well since you'll run out of headroom too soon and it becomes a noisy square wave. I'm leaning more towards a dual channel thing or a simplified high gain distortion circuit stacked with a lower gain overdrive circuit. Either way, besides you lot there's not a whole ton of requests so its never been high on the to-do list.

But maybe I can pull off a small batch of something soon.

For the record - I'm not in the camp of pushing for a dual MBD. I'm just willing to buy (read: have bought) pretty much all of your creations to try them. Of those, I hung on to an MBD-2 for each board and a mammoth tamer, because it fvcking slams with fuzz pedals. So if it's between shifting gears to the dual or finishing a rad fuzz - I vote rad fuzz.

 

[gunai]

Anything to distract me from finishing that damn fuzz pedal.

Your existing customer base will still be here when the fuzz is eventually finished.
I suspect most of us aren't likely to wind up losing interest on account of some other fuzz pedal from now until then.
of myself, I am certain. 3.5 years in and the MBD-1 is still almost always on whenever any pedal is on (I freely admit that I do sometimes run my signal chain stripped down to the G&L SB-1 and the Mesa TT-800).
Take your time.

 

[theunknowndude]

Be interesting to see if could have the clean elements from the mbd1/2 in a fuzz pedal as part of its blend setup… just love the low deep articulate grind that I get and to have a fuzz melded to that would be pretty insane…

 

[gregmon79]

Be interesting to see if could have the clean elements from the mbd1/2 in a fuzz pedal as part of its blend setup… just love the low deep articulate grind that I get and to have a fuzz melded to that would be pretty insane…

I surely hope he already knows this?! Haha That was what I was hoping for when the fuzz did come through. Just that. What you said. With a fuzz circuit instead of an OD.

 

[willsellout]

My apologies to Jeff if my post was ill placed.

 

[bassmusic17]

This is good enough for me and they stack very well with how I have them set…

 

[deff]

This is good enough for me and they stack very well with how I have them set…
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No offense to anyone here but.... look it's two MDB 2s stackable or switchable. Crazy how that works...

 

[bassmusic17]

No offense to anyone here but.... look it's two MDB 2s stackable or switchable. Crazy how that works...

This is honestly a perfect solution. I’m not one to change my settings once I get them dialed in, having the effect order switch wouldn’t be necessary. Dial two in together how you like and leave it alone. Having a pedal built this way already would be convenient until you reached your desired setting due to less configurations. Yet, once you reach the optimal tone you wind up with more or less the same result. All you’d really be saving is time routing it how you like.

 

[deff]

This is honestly a perfect solution. I’m not one to change my settings once I get them dialed in, having the effect order switch wouldn’t be necessary. Dial two in together how you like and leave it alone. Having a pedal built this way already would be convenient until you reached your desire setting due to less configurations. Yet, once you reach the optimal tone you wind up with more or less the same result. All you’d really be saving is time routing it how you like.

With cable routing and the input jack configuration I think we can put to bed the "need" for a dual mdb. The novelty of it is cool but the necessity is not.

 

[bassmusic17]

With cable routing and the input jack configuration I think we can put to bed the "need" for a dual mdb. The novelty of it is cool but the necessity is not.

Only argument I could see is if it had like an aby switching system. So you can toggle between each MBD with one footswitch or engage both together with the other.

 

[chiphaleonbass]

I like the idea of have a two channel version, like a footswitch that changes the placement of the 20db toggle. Can go from low gain to all out fuzz from the switch of a single button. I have the Shotmaker Heroine Deluxe that has two separate saturation settings that you can toggle between with a footswitch and at times it was the only drive pedal I would use on my board. As much as I love that pedal the MBD-2 has quickly become one of my favorite pedals, and I just received it last week....

 

[SunnBass]

Only argument I could see is if it had like an aby switching system. So you can toggle between each MBD with one footswitch or engage both together with the other.

Nope, we cant talk about it any more, @deff said so. At least someone is looking out for us.

 

[SunnBass]

Well it's a practice space so my options are a little limited, but yes, facing away and moving around until it is at least somewhat mitigated. I've simply taken to dialing the volume knob on the bass back, then hurriedly turning it up when the drummer surprises me with a an intro. The issue is that we have space in some of our material and I don't always want to sound like black flag.

Have you considered a quality noise gate?
Not a noise suppressor like the Boss NS-2. But an actual noise gate?

 

[bassmusic17]

Nope, we cant talk about it any more, @deff said so. At least someone is looking out for us.

Oh well, nothing else to talk about until he finishes that forking fuzz.

 

[bassmusic17]

I like the idea of have a two channel version, like a footswitch that changes the placement of the 20db toggle. Can go from low gain to all out fuzz from the switch of a single button. I have the Shotmaker Heroine Deluxe that has two separate saturation settings that you can toggle between with a footswitch and at times it was the only drive pedal I would use on my board. As much as I love that pedal the MBD-2 has quickly become one of my favorite pedals, and I just received it last week....

Yeah that’s why I said an aby switching system would be beneficial. You setup however you want the boost with your routing and then engage each effect with one switch or simultaneously with another switch. At least for me that would be cool. All the extra toggles and stuff I feel would only be desirable for someone who hasn’t settled on their settings yet.

 

[deff]

I like the idea of have a two channel version, like a footswitch that changes the placement of the 20db toggle. Can go from low gain to all out fuzz from the switch of a single button. I have the Shotmaker Heroine Deluxe that has two separate saturation settings that you can toggle between with a footswitch and at times it was the only drive pedal I would use on my board. As much as I love that pedal the MBD-2 has quickly become one of my favorite pedals, and I just received it last week....

But that likely is not exactly how a two pedal MDB would work. I guess that there is a slight convenience factor with an ABY switch that you wouldn't have to tap twice, but otherwise if I'm not mistaken Jeff has already mentioned that running them stacked isn't the greatest idea already. I get that everybody loves these pedals. I love my Curmudgeon, someday I'll get a 1 used or a 2 new, but this is basically a novelty thing when it comes to this pedal. Buy two if you want to switch between two separate settings.

 

[deff]

Have you considered a quality noise gate?
Not a noise suppressor like the Boss NS-2. But an actual noise gate?

I was actually able to figure it out. Our practice space is way out of town from where I live. I had just bought a Berg NV412T and hadn't experimented with the T part of it. I adjusted the tweeter settings, reworked my eq and pedal eq and gain, got to basically unity between distortion and clean sound and like magic no more unwanted feedback. I just took a bit of time and effort that I wasn't able to put in before practice happened.

Regarding noise gates, they are great if you play certain types of music, but for what we do, it doesn't really work. I know I can dial in decay and attack, but I do want a very live unhinged sound that swells a bit between notes. Noise gates are a last resort. Solid advice though, thanks...

 

[kranahan]

There’s a $100 MBD-1 on Reverb. NA.

 

[kranahan]

Now there’s a Bloop for $100 on Reverb. Not mine.

 

[bassmusic17]

But that likely is not exactly how a two pedal MDB would work. I guess that there is a slight convenience factor with an ABY switch that you wouldn't have to tap twice, but otherwise if I'm not mistaken Jeff has already mentioned that running them stacked isn't the greatest idea already. I get that everybody loves these pedals. I love my Curmudgeon, someday I'll get a 1 used or a 2 new, but this is basically a novelty thing when it comes to this pedal. Buy two if you want to switch between two separate settings.

Mine stack just fine.