This is mainly about the AF-9 but I wanted to post a good word about the Pedal Doctor, too. In another thread, I said I had some communication problems with him for a few months, which led me thinking that maybe he either never got my pedal or misplaced it when he moved earlier this year and didn't want to tell me, but it turned out to be an antispam glitch in his new server resulting in us never getting each other's emails. Anyway, he sent my pedal back after repairing a couple traces and replacing the caps, and it works good as new. He sent it to me without a bill to make up for the wait time, but I'm going to pay him anyway because I believe it was an honest mistake where it just fell through the system cracks. I thought he did a very good and thorough job on my pedal and give him two thumbs up.
Onto the AF-9...I forgot how much this pedal sounds like an original Mutron III. Don't know if it's an exact duplicate but it's darn close. Bootsy sound took all of 30 seconds to find. I bought this pedal for like $40 off a former bandmate years ago and never really dug it, and when I tried it tonight, I remembered why. I always preferred the EHX Zipper and Dr. Q back in the day. Easier to use and had a sound I liked better.
But I guess tastes change because I'm digging it now. Sat there for an hour with my P Lyte and B-15 copping different tones until my wife made me stop. Found a pretty fat tone I can use on my gigs...not very Bootsy-like but pretty fat sounding, way fatter than I remember it from the old days. But I remember very little from back then as it is, let alone how a pedal that sat broken for years sounded back then
The only other envelope filter I had to compare it to was the one in my Boss SYB-3. It's pretty good and has a good range of sounds to it. When I tried to get the same sound that I use in the SYB-3 out of the AF-9, it wouldn't let me get quite as peaky as the SYB-3, but it sounded warmer, slightly more "mature" on the top end for lack of a better word, and had a slight boost to it. I'm thinking maybe the SYB-3 matched up better with my clean tone. It was the same volume and had the same tone as my clean bass, only with an envelope filter on it. I may not want that added warmth of the AF-9 with the band. Hard to predict. But I do like it better by itself, so I'll give it a crack at my next gig on Friday.
So does anyone else have the AF-9? Has anyone ever done a side by side with the Ibanez and the Maxon? Care to share your experiences?
EDIT: Here are some samples I recorded:
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Onto the AF-9...I forgot how much this pedal sounds like an original Mutron III. Don't know if it's an exact duplicate but it's darn close. Bootsy sound took all of 30 seconds to find. I bought this pedal for like $40 off a former bandmate years ago and never really dug it, and when I tried it tonight, I remembered why. I always preferred the EHX Zipper and Dr. Q back in the day. Easier to use and had a sound I liked better.
But I guess tastes change because I'm digging it now. Sat there for an hour with my P Lyte and B-15 copping different tones until my wife made me stop. Found a pretty fat tone I can use on my gigs...not very Bootsy-like but pretty fat sounding, way fatter than I remember it from the old days. But I remember very little from back then as it is, let alone how a pedal that sat broken for years sounded back then
The only other envelope filter I had to compare it to was the one in my Boss SYB-3. It's pretty good and has a good range of sounds to it. When I tried to get the same sound that I use in the SYB-3 out of the AF-9, it wouldn't let me get quite as peaky as the SYB-3, but it sounded warmer, slightly more "mature" on the top end for lack of a better word, and had a slight boost to it. I'm thinking maybe the SYB-3 matched up better with my clean tone. It was the same volume and had the same tone as my clean bass, only with an envelope filter on it. I may not want that added warmth of the AF-9 with the band. Hard to predict. But I do like it better by itself, so I'll give it a crack at my next gig on Friday.
So does anyone else have the AF-9? Has anyone ever done a side by side with the Ibanez and the Maxon? Care to share your experiences?
EDIT: Here are some samples I recorded:
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I miss it, since I currently play everything thru an old 15" combo... I also probably killed some of the high end of my AF-9 when messing with the trimpots inside, I will have another go at it when I have time... I was mostly concentrating on low end when adjusting them the first time...
sit on it for a while??? 
