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JPTR Jive NPD

#41
eddododo said:
While we're at it, I find this thing to be absolutely titanic at 18v..
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Dude, thank you for this! I kinda liked the Jive at 9V, but at 18V, I love what it does to my JMJ Mustang.

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Perfect little bit of hair. More subtle fingerstyle, more pronounced with a pick, but in any case an absolute instance yeah no I'm never gonna turn this off again! I even like it for occasional slapping.
 
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wavemaker said:
Dude, thank you for this! I kinda liked the Jive at 9V, but at 18V, I love what it does to my JMJ Mustang.

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Perfect little bit of hair. More subtle fingerstyle, more pronounced with a pick, but in any case an absolute instance yeah no I'm never gonna turn this off again! I even like it for occasional slapping.
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funny you mention it, I just remembered this while redoing my board and put my Jive back at 18v and it is still, indeed, titanic


There's just something it does to my Roscoe specifically, pleasant like a productive wet cough.. this weird smearing of the tone that doesn't lose anything, it's just this gooey breakup that isn't buzzy or farty like literally everything else
 
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#45
ImTheOnlyOne said:
Great at 18V.
Keep the gain and volume below 11:00 and the first two diodes become usable for some saturated grit. Past 11, or engage third diode anytime for some OD.

Excess saturation can be fatiguing. You can feel the relief when switching it off. But the Jive rides the boundary of "just enough" really well.
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This is interesting. I just bought one and I have a 9V power supply. I'm finding the sound thinner than I was expecting. How would you describe what an 18v would do to the tone?
 
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#46
Gabe Quietfire said:
This is interesting. I just bought one and I have a 9V power supply. I'm finding the sound thinner than I was expecting. How would you describe what an 18v would do to the tone?
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Well really it's just giving you more headroom on the 'clean' (no diodes switched in) setting. In practice this means there is a wider portion of the sweep of the gain knob that is clean, allowing you to dial in sweet spots where you get the unique wide breakup without it hard clipping the transistor. There is a particular character I'm in love with when this pedal is pretty driven but not hitting the rails, and for me it's virtually always on (and it's not like I'm a metal guy or anything).

The other thing that happens at 18v- you can put WAY more clean drive into the diodes when they're switched on, so you can really drive the hell out of them. In practice, I don't find that I have any trouble making them clip at 9v, and you don't get that much more out of it once they're clipping, but there's a bit of a different feeling and sound with different recipes, so there may be more there for other people.

But yeah, I can't say I've called this pedal "thin" at 9v either.. that being said I don't personally find myself using the 2 more extreme diode switches very often; I could see someone describing them as "thin…" they drop the volume a TON and require more volume knob makeup, and they clip SO hard that it really compresses things a lot and absolutely obliterates the bass tone.

I use the first diode switch occasionally to add harmonics to my synthy sounds, but 90% of the time I'm just using gain and no diodes; it's an ooey gooey tone sweetener at its best, in my opinion. And at 18v it is fattttttttt
 
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Gabe Quietfire said:
This is interesting. I just bought one and I have a 9V power supply. I'm finding the sound thinner than I was expecting. How would you describe what an 18v would do to the tone?
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Are you listening through headphones by any chance? To me it sounds like the pedal inverts phase. [Scratch that, I unknowingly had another pedal on that was inverting] If you can flip the phase try that. I've noticed this with a lot of pedals that simply hitting the phase button on my Radial JDI can fix a lot of pedal incompatibilities, even for a single pedal not being blended.
 
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#51
manchego_eggo said:
just ordered one of these bad boiz on sale for 100 with on the verb. do folx usually put this before or after a comp?
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I personally use the comp first, as it sets the shape and amplitude of the attack/envelope, such that the attack of notes clips the downstream dirt in a consistent way. If you'd rather a wide range of response / clipping from dirt, I'd put the comp last.
 
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#53
Zbysek said:
I received the Jive recently and today I tried it.... it's awsome. I love the way it makes my tone thicker.

I compared it to Broughton Scorpion which I received recently too. I prefer Jive so far...
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haha i did the same thing and got both pedals around the same time. they seem to sound very familiar but scorpion might be more versatile with the gain and eq knobs. that said i find the jive way easier to dial in.
 
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manchego_eggo said:
haha i did the same thing and got both pedals around the same time. they seem to sound very familiar but scorpion might be more versatile with the gain and eq knobs. that said i find the jive way easier to dial in.
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I agree.

Scorpion is the more versatile between the two. Various combinations of the depth and gain knobs settings can provide various colours of overdrive. On the other hand, sometimes I have a problem to find a sound which would work for me.

On the other hand, Jive sounds exactly as I want it to-I don't feel no need to tweak it whatsoever.
 
#55
Zbysek said:
I agree.

Scorpion is the more versatile between the two. Various combinations of the depth and gain knobs settings can provide various colours of overdrive. On the other hand, sometimes I have a problem to find a sound which would work for me.

On the other hand, Jive sounds exactly as I want it to-I don't feel no need to tweak it whatsoever.
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I'm in the same boat, I find the depth and bass knobs are really hard to dial in right especially. anything past noon on depth feels too deep.
 
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#56
I just discovered this pedal today (The Jive) its so cheap I might check it out. But there's no in hell I'm expecting it to replace my Scorpion in any way shape, form, or fashion that pedal will always be on a board of mine always.
 
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Maxi Funkl said:
I just discovered this pedal today (The Jive) its so cheap I might check it out. But there's no in hell I'm expecting it to replace my Scorpion in any way shape, form, or fashion that pedal will always be on a board of mine always.
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haha there's an alarming number of conversations about Jive v Scorpion on here. They stack alarmingly well so be warned.
 
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manchego_eggo said:
haha there's an alarming number of conversations about Jive v Scorpion on here. They stack alarmingly well so be warned.
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Not a chance LOL! Its best use for me would be an always on slight grit pedal tone enhancer. The Scorpion is being moved to another board and DCX Bass will take that spot. Since both have Dirt & EQ usability Albeit the DCX Bass cost double. Currently my dirt path is Scorpion > Hamstead Subspace > Calamity (which is just being tested out its moving to the same board as the Scorpion) So, Ultimately on this board My goal is DCX Bass> Subspace or MBD3 > Red Muck Bass (which will replace DOD Carcosa). It really boils down too in general terms Mosfet (Jive) vs Blueberry (Scorpion) which one is more to ones taste. I did some live loud Studio recording with the Scorpion this past weekend with Drummer, 2 key players & 3 guitarist & Sax & Trumpet with depth at 12 to 3 gain at 9 to 3 sounded fantastic its a keeper completely past the real test
 
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