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My Dirt Bender - Another Jounal
- Thread starter el murdoque
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Interesting way to get back to dirt
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The brush bit on the big one is the best tool I used for cleaning pedals.
The rest are quite useful to clean those parts on a bass that are not easily reached.
Not the best €17 I ever spent, but €17 spent very well!
Well that's a Li'l vague
Obviously not vague enough when the second guess is right on the money.
I do, mainly to record demos or songs ideas, it is a lot of fun. Especially if you don't suffer from paralysis because of the infinite possibilities. I use amps and pedals mostly, for IR I stick to the Shiftline pack and a few others.
Are you aiming to use it for recording or live performance?
Are you aiming to use it for recording or live performance?
Live.
I was looking into the possibilities of capturing an entire setup and then just bringing one little box instead of a full pedal board.
...but there's no time to think about the digital stuff, cause this lil fella just arrived:
Fun fact: The seller wrote in the ad that it's a bright, signal yellow but his cam did not catch the hue correctly because it looked normal yellow in the pics.
Either we're using the same camera or this coat of paint is meant to shine a bright yellow gleam into your eyes, but hide it on photos.
I only had a minute to test it, and in that minute, I did not like it (yet).
My feeling was that the bass dropped out, so I decided to do some measuring first. Tone knob min/noon/max. All other knobs noon, gate off.
Interesting. There seems to be some scooping of the lower mids going on with the tone knob at noon. I'll repeat the process with more knob positions.
Either we're using the same camera or this coat of paint is meant to shine a bright yellow gleam into your eyes, but hide it on photos.
I only had a minute to test it, and in that minute, I did not like it (yet).
My feeling was that the bass dropped out, so I decided to do some measuring first. Tone knob min/noon/max. All other knobs noon, gate off.
Interesting. There seems to be some scooping of the lower mids going on with the tone knob at noon. I'll repeat the process with more knob positions.
Definitely my favorite Fuzzrocious pedal aesthetically, and the one I’ve considered buying a few times. I had an early Dark Driving, early Rat Tail, and an early OCD clone (can’t remember the name) at different points around a decade ago and none really did it for me.
The early OCD would have been the Oh Cee Demon, or the Demon?
Are these made in China?
There's Chinese writing on the box, but the pedal itself looks handmade:
There's Chinese writing on the box, but the pedal itself looks handmade:
Okay. I could have googled that myself. Obviously, that's not Mandarin, but Japanese - Lep International is a large distributor for the Japanese market.
Their own brand is One Control, but they carry a ton of other brands, among them Fuzzrocious.
Their own brand is One Control, but they carry a ton of other brands, among them Fuzzrocious.
I think mine was just “Demon”. I did use it’s gated sound for one recording and thought it worked pretty well for that (I think I may have previously attributed it to the Dark Driving in this thread or another, but actually pretty sure it was the Demon though that pedal never made the cut for a live pedalboard). This song, which was a gated Demon through a Moog MF Drive with an expression pedal sweeping its filter to get the murky underwater intro sound through a Darkglass Vintage (I think that was the pedal chain and order!) through my Mesa Prodigy amp and miked Berg NV610:
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Just a rough first impression on the Li'l Fella:
What the tone knob does is nicely pictured by the graphs, I did find my sweetspot at around 1 o'clock.
Now there's the Gain and the Drive knobs.
When you set them both to zero, there's no signal. When you open either one, you will get signal.
Gain is more of a neutral taste and drive is driven. With Gain from 2 o'clock onwards, there is a bit of overdrive.
Drive is more of a distortion-y drive sound and there is a shift in EQ when you turn these up and down - this will need further exploration.
The Gate switch bumps up the gain, or drive, or both, or a separate gain stage - that needs to be explored, too.
Obviously, it also adds a gate - and I will have to admit that this is the first gated pedal which was fun to play for me.
I usually ignore these and/or don't know what to do with them, but this just slams shut when you lift your finger off the fretted note in just the right moment by just the right amount. I still have no idea what to do with it, but at least I'm enjoying playing through it.
I did fail to find a setting I enjoyed playing, but I don't have the right ears on today - when I did not enjoy the Li'l Fella I did try to fall back to something I know I do enjoy and my bass sounded flat and lifeless through that signal chain, too - so it's either the fingers or the ears. I'll rest tonight and approach this again tomorrow.
What the tone knob does is nicely pictured by the graphs, I did find my sweetspot at around 1 o'clock.
Now there's the Gain and the Drive knobs.
When you set them both to zero, there's no signal. When you open either one, you will get signal.
Gain is more of a neutral taste and drive is driven. With Gain from 2 o'clock onwards, there is a bit of overdrive.
Drive is more of a distortion-y drive sound and there is a shift in EQ when you turn these up and down - this will need further exploration.
The Gate switch bumps up the gain, or drive, or both, or a separate gain stage - that needs to be explored, too.
Obviously, it also adds a gate - and I will have to admit that this is the first gated pedal which was fun to play for me.
I usually ignore these and/or don't know what to do with them, but this just slams shut when you lift your finger off the fretted note in just the right moment by just the right amount. I still have no idea what to do with it, but at least I'm enjoying playing through it.
I did fail to find a setting I enjoyed playing, but I don't have the right ears on today - when I did not enjoy the Li'l Fella I did try to fall back to something I know I do enjoy and my bass sounded flat and lifeless through that signal chain, too - so it's either the fingers or the ears. I'll rest tonight and approach this again tomorrow.
