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Dunwich Amplification General Discussion

#2,381
Read em and weep bois. Shipping out in a day or two.

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emjazz said:
I've played through the DA120...it's unreal on bass.
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I can second this. I love my DA120. It's become a critical part of my sound that has pretty much been always on since I got it.
Granted I use it as a warm overdrive /preamp rather than it's capabilities as more of a fuzz, that I've seen a lot of demos go towards.
Not that it doesn't excel in that department as well.
 
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socialleper said:
I know this is TB heresy, but after going through nearly every fuzz style around, I sort of gave up on fuzz. In a power trio fuzz can work, but in my situation where I had two guitar players that didn't know their volumes could go down, or that they didn't need to fill up all the sonic space, fuzz just made be vanish. Space Slug and Monolord can make it work, but I can't.
When I think about the bass tones I really like (Cathedral, Sleep, Bison, Kylesa) they use overdrive and not fuzz. I miss the Wizard because it is such a monumental pedal, and it seems like a lot of them are floating around right now.
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I get that. I found I had to go boutique for fuzz. My fuzz quest was long and expensive, but the Pharaoh Supreme does it for me. My ultimate fuzz. If you haven’t tried it, you should (if you want fuzz that is). Of course, I get the OD instead of fuzz thing too, because I love my modded Pork Loin as well, and often switch between the two for the exact same songs. They’re both great. And back to Dunwich...

I love my Volt Thrower for a tone similar to, but crunchier than my Pharaoh. The ODB seems to go in and out of my tone nirvana. One day it’s great, the next I just din’t know. I’m looking for a thrash tone from it. Suggestions welcome, but it’s certainly worth the space in my second board.

Random question - why don’t more small builders do more Envelope filters? I love that effect, and have recently found that two of my favorites prefer different basses. It’s the first time I’ve heard incredibly distinct tones between basses in identical effects. I felt both enlightened and humbled, and also annoyed yet satisfied (as I had tweaked each rig with specific basses and they both sounded great!). That’s all. Rant over.
 
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Now that I've been playing my EGC jazz bass exclusively with my sludge/hardcoah band, the DA120 is going to replace my model fett on my mini board of dirt. It pairs way better with that bass, and darkens it up perfectly. It also makes me giddy to slam the front of gt200 with the da120! More and more, I realize how important matching equipment is, one pedal may suck complete ass with one bass, but then destroy with another.
 
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To roll back to the Al Cisneros tone thing (because...why not), I was listening to OM's God is Good last night with a good pair of headphones. I realized that his tone is impossible to reproduce with one pedal. It isn't the pedals going from one into the other that makes his tone. He has the DS-1 going one way and the DoD250 going another, so it is split in stereo. They aren't in series or layered, it is two distinct tones panned. Live he uses at least two heads and cabs. On this record, he definitely dubs his tracks. If the DS-1 is the gritter tone panned to the right, the bassier DoD250 is playing a slightly different supporting line panned to the left.
Pretty genius actually. Elim Amos is a real monster behind the kit as well.
I need to sit down with The Sciences and listen to whether he does this on that recording.
 
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Grahams Groove said:
This reminds me, I need to spend more time listening to a handful of albums with a good set of cans. I always default to earbuds commuting around town, because I don't care if they get lost or trashed. That said, it doesn't hold a candle to a good set of headphones...
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I good set of IEM can go a long way too. I look for reviews on head-fi.org since they dig deep into weird brands most people have never heard of, but are a steal. For around $50 you can get some very good IEMs.
 
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bassboysam said:
Om on a pair of Audeze LCD2s and a Woo Audio WA6 is pretty epic.
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I love the production on Space Slug's Mountains & Reminiscence. They use so much of the space for just a three piece.
If you haven't had the chance, give it a listen.

Om is one of those bands that if you don't pay attention to the details or understand what Al is on about, it could get boring. On the surface it isn't something I should like, yet I do.
 
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Just listened to Giza Butler on my Sony MDR-7506 headphones.
Sleep's mix is obviously more dense due to Pike's guitar playing. He is panned pretty far to the left and right, while Al is Center-right. I don't hear the same separation between the two drives on that Sleep track like I did the OM track. However, I'm still pretty convinced that they are running in parallel and mixed together via the engineering. If I'm wrong, I'll accept my false conclusion.
So to pull this all back together into the idea of mythical dream pedal, can two drive channels running in parallel to each other on one pedal without a dual out to two amps? Is that what something like the EHX Hot Wax or Darkglass Alpha\Omega is doing, or that merely a pan between the two circuits?
 
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socialleper said:
Just listened to Giza Butler on my Sony MDR-7506 headphones.
Sleep's mix is obviously more dense due to Pike's guitar playing. He is panned pretty far to the left and right, while Al is Center-right. I don't hear the same separation between the two drives on that Sleep track like I did the OM track. However, I'm still pretty convinced that they are running in parallel and mixed together via the engineering. If I'm wrong, I'll accept my false conclusion.
So to pull this all back together into the idea of mythical dream pedal, can two drive channels running in parallel to each other on one pedal without a dual out to two amps? Is that what something like the EHX Hot Wax or Darkglass Alpha\Omega is doing, or that merely a pan between the two circuits?
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well my original design actually have 3 possible outputs, DS1 + Blend, DOD250 + Blend and a DS1 + DOD250 + Blend. The intention was to use the pedal as both an OD and a splitter to run a stereo rig. I didnt end up running the output like that on the only unit I made, I just used the mono summed signal.

I dont know if going the full iso route makes sense since it would require no additional effects to really be used after the split signals unless you had completely isolated supplies running the separate chains.

Certainly think some kind of split output idea is feasible if the right design goals were spelled out.
 
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Not gonna get more than a half hour or so with it tonight. But so far my initial impression is: this thing stays put. It's already got my Green Russian on the chopping block. One other fuzz will likely see the door on account of this bad boy. Nice work, clean build, and great job on the blend. Doomy stoner goodness abounds...
 
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