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New Wren and Cuff Pedal

#43
Anarchyok said:
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Love it, this little board is now all I am rocking with my band!

Mercy Phuk is great. We put it thru a guitarist mates rig as well and it sounds virtually identical to his keeley modded boss blues driver for what its worth.
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For some reason I find this pedal board particularly great... :cool:
 
#46
Great! Ok for me to facebook this pic?
BTW, The Mercy Phuk is voiced on the bright side intentionally. The thought was to make it versatile as possible. My thinking was that with many dirt pedals, when rolling the volume back on the instrument, or the tone knob back, they would indeed "clean-up" but often the clean-up would also take a lot of the edge off the overall sound. This could be useful on a bridge pup, but on a neck pup, say a bass-humbucker, you would get a sort of murky unpleasant thing happening.
With the MP, my hope was that anyone who is a volume-tone rider could start with the instrument's tone-knob very low, then have the option of going brighter or darker. I hope this makes sense.
It will get particularly sweet with a bit of a roll back on the volume knob. Then when the big mega chorus kicks in, give that knob a twist, and the bass will pop in the mix, without being overwhelming.
I do realize that traditionally, bassists aren't known for riding the volume and tone knobs nearly as much as guitarists, but as you bassists have begun to "break taboo" and become avid effects users, I find that many don't realize the benefits of this technique. BTW, I say "break-taboo" because I came up in the early 90's when it was very rare to see a bassist using a fuzz or overdrive, let alone a phasers and delays.
Now that you folks are out there getting just as, and sometimes more creative than your guitarist brethren, I hope many will discover the use of the good-ole’, boring, volume and tone knobs.
A huge benefit, is being able to crank things up without having to run over to the pedal-board. You can make adjustments on the fly, and really impact the dynamic of a song with small adjustments that others in the band may not notice. But they will notice subconsciously when the bass piping in and out of the mix at the right time contributes to the over-all song just feeling “right.”
Obviously, there are plenty of you who already take advantage of this and use it all the time, but in my experience playing in bands, and seeing shows, the instrument’s knobs are oft neglected. Remember, they’re there for a reason!
All that to say, I set out to make a one-knobber that would encompass as much versatility as possible with that single knob.
Also, it can be a great tool for making the mids pop when you hit a muffer.
Hope this doesn’t sound like a sales pitch, because it really isn’t. But I will say, in the first batch of these pedals, I didn’t explain this enough in the manual, and wish I would have.
Also, Talkbass helped put us on the map, and is still one of the only forums I post on, even though I’m a guitarist by definition. I haven’t visited in a while because I’ve had the fantastic problem of being so damn busy with Wren and Cuff, but I still answer all PM’s here, and reply to every email we get, although one will slip to the bottom of the in-box once in a while.
That said, I pre-apologize for not poking my head in till we have a new pedal come out, but when we do release a new one, this is one of the first places I go to see how it’s performing in the “real world” outside of the shop…
Thx guys.
I think this post makes up for any I’ve missed this past year!
Looooong!
-Matt
 
#47
Hey Matt, I got my Phat Phuk B from you a few years ago. I initially thought it wasn't to my taste, and wrote you such. You wrote back and explained about the internal trim pot, and it since has become a favorite. You're a stand up guy, and this here post makes me wanna put the Mercy Phuk next on my list, just on principle :bassist:


Wren and Cuff said:
Great! Ok for me to facebook this pic?
BTW, The Mercy Phuk is voiced on the bright side intentionally. The thought was to make it versatile as possible. My thinking was that with many dirt pedals, when rolling the volume back on the instrument, or the tone knob back, they would indeed "clean-up" but often the clean-up would also take a lot of the edge off the overall sound. This could be useful on a bridge pup, but on a neck pup, say a bass-humbucker, you would get a sort of murky unpleasant thing happening.
With the MP, my hope was that anyone who is a volume-tone rider could start with the instrument's tone-knob very low, then have the option of going brighter or darker. I hope this makes sense.
It will get particularly sweet with a bit of a roll back on the volume knob. Then when the big mega chorus kicks in, give that knob a twist, and the bass will pop in the mix, without being overwhelming.
I do realize that traditionally, bassists aren't known for riding the volume and tone knobs nearly as much as guitarists, but as you bassists have begun to "break taboo" and become avid effects users, I find that many don't realize the benefits of this technique. BTW, I say "break-taboo" because I came up in the early 90's when it was very rare to see a bassist using a fuzz or overdrive, let alone a phasers and delays.
Now that you folks are out there getting just as, and sometimes more creative than your guitarist brethren, I hope many will discover the use of the good-ole’, boring, volume and tone knobs.
A huge benefit, is being able to crank things up without having to run over to the pedal-board. You can make adjustments on the fly, and really impact the dynamic of a song with small adjustments that others in the band may not notice. But they will notice subconsciously when the bass piping in and out of the mix at the right time contributes to the over-all song just feeling “right.”
Obviously, there are plenty of you who already take advantage of this and use it all the time, but in my experience playing in bands, and seeing shows, the instrument’s knobs are oft neglected. Remember, they’re there for a reason!
All that to say, I set out to make a one-knobber that would encompass as much versatility as possible with that single knob.
Also, it can be a great tool for making the mids pop when you hit a muffer.
Hope this doesn’t sound like a sales pitch, because it really isn’t. But I will say, in the first batch of these pedals, I didn’t explain this enough in the manual, and wish I would have.
Also, Talkbass helped put us on the map, and is still one of the only forums I post on, even though I’m a guitarist by definition. I haven’t visited in a while because I’ve had the fantastic problem of being so damn busy with Wren and Cuff, but I still answer all PM’s here, and reply to every email we get, although one will slip to the bottom of the in-box once in a while.
That said, I pre-apologize for not poking my head in till we have a new pedal come out, but when we do release a new one, this is one of the first places I go to see how it’s performing in the “real world” outside of the shop…
Thx guys.
I think this post makes up for any I’ve missed this past year!
Looooong!
-Matt
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#48
Wren and Cuff said:
Great! Ok for me to facebook this pic?
BTW, The Mercy Phuk is voiced on the bright side intentionally. The thought was to make it versatile as possible. My thinking was that with many dirt pedals, when rolling the volume back on the instrument, or the tone knob back, they would indeed "clean-up" but often the clean-up would also take a lot of the edge off the overall sound. This could be useful on a bridge pup, but on a neck pup, say a bass-humbucker, you would get a sort of murky unpleasant thing happening.
With the MP, my hope was that anyone who is a volume-tone rider could start with the instrument's tone-knob very low, then have the option of going brighter or darker. I hope this makes sense.
It will get particularly sweet with a bit of a roll back on the volume knob. Then when the big mega chorus kicks in, give that knob a twist, and the bass will pop in the mix, without being overwhelming.
I do realize that traditionally, bassists aren't known for riding the volume and tone knobs nearly as much as guitarists, but as you bassists have begun to "break taboo" and become avid effects users, I find that many don't realize the benefits of this technique. BTW, I say "break-taboo" because I came up in the early 90's when it was very rare to see a bassist using a fuzz or overdrive, let alone a phasers and delays.
Now that you folks are out there getting just as, and sometimes more creative than your guitarist brethren, I hope many will discover the use of the good-ole’, boring, volume and tone knobs.
A huge benefit, is being able to crank things up without having to run over to the pedal-board. You can make adjustments on the fly, and really impact the dynamic of a song with small adjustments that others in the band may not notice. But they will notice subconsciously when the bass piping in and out of the mix at the right time contributes to the over-all song just feeling “right.”
Obviously, there are plenty of you who already take advantage of this and use it all the time, but in my experience playing in bands, and seeing shows, the instrument’s knobs are oft neglected. Remember, they’re there for a reason!
All that to say, I set out to make a one-knobber that would encompass as much versatility as possible with that single knob.
Also, it can be a great tool for making the mids pop when you hit a muffer.
Hope this doesn’t sound like a sales pitch, because it really isn’t. But I will say, in the first batch of these pedals, I didn’t explain this enough in the manual, and wish I would have.
Also, Talkbass helped put us on the map, and is still one of the only forums I post on, even though I’m a guitarist by definition. I haven’t visited in a while because I’ve had the fantastic problem of being so damn busy with Wren and Cuff, but I still answer all PM’s here, and reply to every email we get, although one will slip to the bottom of the in-box once in a while.
That said, I pre-apologize for not poking my head in till we have a new pedal come out, but when we do release a new one, this is one of the first places I go to see how it’s performing in the “real world” outside of the shop…
Thx guys.
I think this post makes up for any I’ve missed this past year!
Looooong!
-Matt
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Matt, you're the best.
I am sorry that I just sold off my Pickle Pie B.

...I still have my Phat Phuk B though :)
 
#50
Nice to 'see' you around Matt!

I still have the Tall Font on my board I purchased from you about two years ago, and it's still my go to distortion effect. All my other dirt effects are used to 'enhance' it.

The Mercy makes me curious about how it'll play with the TFR. I'll have to check it out as soon as my effects budget recovers from my latest bout of spending. I'm always looking for dirt enhancers.

Take care!

Anarchyok, any thoughts about what the Mercy does to the TFR?
 

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