Yay demos! They sound great. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your kind words! It was my pleasure to do.
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Fuzzrocious Club - *High Five!*
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Thanks for your kind words! It was my pleasure to do.
Awesome demo Snaxster. I really dig how your using Ryan's stuff. Now I gotta get my hands on another DD. I love the way the OSD sounds with it. I'm also gonna dial back my gain a bit. Somewhere between my sound and yours would be ideal for me. I tend to like drastic sounds with my pedals. My volume jump with my GreyStache is big. But I like it that way, especially with Muffs. But for OD's I gotta dial back and my results might be more effective.
I keep my OSD as a light OD. Just enough grit to give it that driving grind. Push it through a BDPG and you get a pretty awesome scooped sound. Like you, my GS is for melting faces and gut punching mids.
Thank you, Frank! I appreciate your compliment, and I'm glad my demos were useful to you.
Low gain can be very cool.
I believe that in the realm of drive, the secret is something I learned in recording studios, years ago; as I said in my first post here:"What I like is mining the range of subtle, responsive overdrive, and turning up the volume to match: listening in, like close miking. When the amp is loud, the OSD through the BDPG sounds and feels completely alive."
I think that all the accomplished old school players knew this.
In 2002, I came out of musical retirement for several months and moved to L.A., where I still knew some professional players. The only paying gig I got there featured James Gadson on drums. Wow. It was during a rehearsal that I suddenly realized how lightly he was hitting the drums. But his sound was huge, especially when miked, and of course his groove was deep.
Small events amplified greatly can seem larger than life. So it is in guitar overdrive as it is in audio recording or cinema.
You can quote me on that.
The other secret is the preservation of dynamics at any gain level. Distortion tends to kill dynamics; and that can be part of its appeal. But finding the sweet spots between degrees of saturation and pure playing input dynamics is one of the most powerful tools an electric guitarist or bassist has. Players who have that control and who play loudly with it, they sound massive. They are sonic titans.
I hope you get another DD!
Rat Tail arrived yesterday, only played around with it for a little while but got some sick heavy bass distortion tones. This one 's gonna stay on the board for a long time 
Rat Tail arrived yesterday, only played around with it for a little while but got some sick heavy bass distortion tones. This one 's gonna stay on the board for a long time
Its my Rat Tail's 1st birthday coming up... has not left the board once.
Rat Tail arrived yesterday, only played around with it for a little while but got some sick heavy bass distortion tones. This one 's gonna stay on the board for a long time
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I got it this morning but I wasn't able to play with it til later.. but its awesome! With my setup it seems to respond best at the end of my chain I'm still experimenting with it. I got the newer model with tthe bright mod footswitch with the sparkle purple! On its own its great where I really enjoy it is after my octron 2! The octave up fur from the octron makes the dark driving shine big time! Freaking great sounding. Overall one of my favorite pedals I own, soooo much versatility and it sounds fantastic! I recommend most bass players (and g***ar players) I know to fuzzrocious pedals!
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Try it at the start and adjust your pedals to suit and you'll really see it shine. I did that and haven't regretted once.
Just recieved my 3 Leaf PWNZOR and it means my box of 4 pedals should be here tomorrow or Friday. It also means that my MXR M87 is coming off for a better tone driving compressor.
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