I'm not exactly sure if that special feature is an advantage.
I've seen the Name, the color and the knobs - and stopped thinking.
Next chance I get, I'll rig a setup to A/B it against Julia.
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My Dirt Bender - Another Jounal
- Thread starter el murdoque
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I've seen the Name, the color and the knobs - and stopped thinking.
Next chance I get, I'll rig a setup to A/B it against Julia.
The Gladio is more mid focused than the DCX. I think that helps it pop out a bit more. For that reason, I like it. The DCX blends in more with the mix, which I suppose that is what it is supposed to do. But, it's not what I'm going for at the moment. There is more drive with the DCX. What I'd like to find is something that sounds like the Gladio, but has more drive. But, I'm coming up short.
But, what is this trimpot you speak of??? I'll have to open it up and see...
Listening to DCX VS Gladio video (there’s one on youtube) with better headphones gave me an idea that yes, Gladio has less drive, DCX has thicker drive and Gladio sounds like a “cleaner drive”. Those usually cut through the mix but I find that the dirt aspect usually ends up being too subtle in the mix. Might be great for a lighter drive but I think DCX does a great medium and heavier drive. To my ears at least.
That's pretty much what I found playing both live. The Gladio sounds how I want it to in the headphones at home. But, it is much more subtle live in a mix. Right now, I am trying to go with a smaller board since I also bring a Moog, which also has it's own small board for CV controllers. (Neither board is by any means "big," but I'm trying to see what I can get out of a small board). If I were going to go bigger, the Gladio certainly has a place, but I'm not sure it will make the cut as my only drive.
Someone in my local market tried to sell a Gladio. For €15 less than what they cost brand new.
I digitally grabbed him by the lapels and shook the price down to something more credible.
My argument was so convincing that he agreed to the offered price and totally forgot to haggle any further.
He actually agreed so readily that I chose to eat the PayPal fee and went with the buyer's protection option, but it seems I shall be receiving a tracking number later today.
I digitally grabbed him by the lapels and shook the price down to something more credible.
My argument was so convincing that he agreed to the offered price and totally forgot to haggle any further.
He actually agreed so readily that I chose to eat the PayPal fee and went with the buyer's protection option, but it seems I shall be receiving a tracking number later today.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what I'm seeing here is a copy of the EBS Micro Bass III without the tuner at twice the price.
What I'm missing is some special sauce mojo to grease my wallet.
Those transformers that were hand wound by specially trained virgin acolytes during a lunar eclipse, using oxygen free copper from the last shipment that made it out of Tibet before the Chinese took over, or the last batch of NOS transistors that were used in the very first Sansamp pedals and recently discovered in an abandoned warehouse.
Something that makes this pedal seem worth more than maybe four hundred bucks.
The cross-over feature is what makes the XB Driver special, IMO. I agree that the device is unneccessarily expensive though...especially in Europe.
Don't get me wrong-I am not pushing you to buy one...
You need to test the Joyo Orange Juice!
It really is an amazing drive for bass.
And it's cheap too.
It really is an amazing drive for bass.
And it's cheap too.
On a slightly different note, I just picked up a used Lusithand Ground & Pound locally. It wasn’t on my radar, but it turns out to be a really nice change from the various overdrive flavours I’ve accumulated. The dirty part is based on a Turbo Rat, and provides the nice, thick, hard-clipped sort of distortion that pedal is renowned for, and the version often touted as the best for bass. The EQ is not very Rat-like, being a tilt-type control centred at 250 Hz. The blend control is, I think, unique, in that the “clean” signal is lightly compressed (at 2:1) to improve the mix with the (necessarily) compressed distorted signal. It neatly overcomes that two-separate-signals-running-in-parallel (there must be a single German word for this) thing that pedals with blend knobs often do. I don’t always hate that, depending on the type of effect, but it’s nice to have a virtually seamless blend.
The beauty in this case is that the texture of your low-gain distortion is highly adjustable from fine and tightly-woven (low drive, very wet) to coarse but loose-knit (high drive, very dry) without the effect of dirt-floating-on-pond-water (I really need to spend more time with German) that you often get when you turn up the dry signal.
Finally, it seems to stack nicely, too
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The beauty in this case is that the texture of your low-gain distortion is highly adjustable from fine and tightly-woven (low drive, very wet) to coarse but loose-knit (high drive, very dry) without the effect of dirt-floating-on-pond-water (I really need to spend more time with German) that you often get when you turn up the dry signal.
Finally, it seems to stack nicely, too
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German is actually easy. If you don't find the right term in the vast catalog of 5,3 million words, you're actually allowed to string together nouns as you see fit to make new ones.On a slightly different note, I just picked up a used Lusithand Ground & Pound locally. It wasn’t on my radar, but it turns out to be a really nice change from the various overdrive flavours I’ve accumulated. The dirty part is based on a Turbo Rat, and provides the nice, thick, hard-clipped sort of distortion that pedal is renowned for, and the version often touted as the best for bass. The EQ is not very Rat-like, being a tilt-type control centred at 250 Hz. The blend control is, I think, unique, in that the “clean” signal is lightly compressed (at 2:1) to improve the mix with the (necessarily) compressed distorted signal. It neatly overcomes that two-separate-signals-running-in-parallel (there must be a single German word for this) thing that pedals with blend knobs often do. I don’t always hate that, depending on the type of effect, but it’s nice to have a virtually seamless blend.
The beauty in this case is that the texture of your low-gain distortion is highly adjustable from fine and tightly-woven (low drive, very wet) to coarse but loose-knit (high drive, very dry) without the effect of dirt-floating-on-pond-water (I really need to spend more time with German) that you often get when you turn up the dry signal.
Finally, it seems to stack nicely, too
This is a popular one on the internet.
I don't know if English has a proper term, but those huge belt or disc grinders you use for hardwood floors can be rented here.
The word floor is already strung together from the words foot and floor (the word Boden translates to floor, same as the word Fußboden. The Inuit have 47 words for snow, the Germans have 48 words for everything), the word for grinder is also strung (literally translated grinding machine) and the last bit means rental. Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih. Do that in Germany and no one bats an eye.
However, back on topic:
Have you had the chance to try the Ground & Pound in a mix yet?
Does enough of the dirt get through?
It's a bit weird with the DCX. I think you can set it to tickle and the next setting that works is straight out murder. There's no shock, stun, hurt and whatever else is in between. Either you go for a super dynamic sound, clean when played softly and gradually adding harmonics and dirt artifacts as your playing force increases (which I like to refer to as sounding very expensive), or you flip the switch to overdrive and go for a roaring brutality you would not expect from a pedal with such a sober name and sleek look.
I hope to receive the Gladio today, which would be nice since I play with the metal guys tonight and could try it out there.
Thanks for the German lesson. I’m studying it a bit, but am a rank beginner. I don’t know about easy; it is easier for an English speaker than Russian, but French still makes more sense to me.
I’m not gigging these days, the most I do now is a regular jam session, and otherwise pursue this for my own enjoyment and edification. I will try it in the jam setting, but the relevance to your situation may be limited. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, the Ground & Pound is a Rat, and offers fairly heavy distortion at the top of the drive range. It is also, as you would expect, capable of being driven harder with a boost in front of it. I also picked up a Darkglass Harmonic Booster from the same very nice chap as the Lusithand, just out of curiosity, and they seem to work very nicely together. Adjusting the midrange being fed to the distortion really changes the way the tilt EQ works and the resulting character of the distortion. Mo’ mids, mo’ cut, you might say.
I recommend reading "The Awful German Language" by Mark Twain.
I will have to try something like that in the near future.
