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overdrive/fuzz quest

#126
bassboysam said:
where did you find it used?
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Guitar Center and a GC credit card is the best thing that has ever happened to a G.A.S. addict like myself.

Sometimes when you google a product the GC links will pop up with used ones for sale. It's how I found some decent deals on used gear (MB LMII for $200! and various other crazy deals). Anything used in store is available wherever they'll ship and if a store is located near a small builder sometimes their stuff will end up being traded in for other stuff.
 
#131
Bermel said:
I liked the Greedtone more, but all three were very good. Are they at low/mild gain settings, aren't they?

GREAT clean tone, BTW.
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thanks. yep they're all set at a little under 50% gain, with no volume boost (unity gain). i was going for a bit of grit/grind (i.e. more like pushing the ouput stage of a tube amp) rather than full blown distortion/fuzz.

IMO, the SFT probably has the best punch/attack articulation of the three, but the greedtone has this lo mid/mid growl that makes it sound big and lively. and IMO, the EBS easily hangs right in there with the best of them, and to me is just as good as the SFT abd GT but in its own way.
 
#132
I put in an order for the EBS this morning. I figured that I've waited to try it for over a decade, I may as well just jump in. I can always return it. There's no telling when the Swell B-peg will arrive so, it will be nice to try something since I have alot of gigs coming up.
 
#133
johnk_10 said:
thanks. yep they're all set at a little under 50% gain, with no volume boost (unity gain). i was going for a bit of grit/grind (i.e. more like pushing the ouput stage of a tube amp) rather than full blown distortion/fuzz.

IMO, the SFT probably has the best punch/attack articulation of the three, but the greedtone has this lo mid/mid growl that makes it sound big and lively. and IMO, the EBS easily hangs right in there with the best of them, and to me is just as good as the SFT abd GT but in its own way.
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I agree with you in relation to the SFT retaining better the articulation. However, in your clip it sounds like it has slightly less dirt than the other two, which could help retaining the attack or articulation.

The SFT has been a nice surprise, as it sounds to me way better than competitors as the VT Bass (too clacky and compressed).

The EBS, while sounding very ok, lacks that "something special" for me.
 
#135
ampegfuzz said:
I have a SFT and can't get it to sound "right" for the life of me. It worked in one set up, but not in any other art up I have. It even got cut off the last board on favor of the DOD 250.
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it's one of those pedals that I have wanted to try but in every clip I have heard I have hated how it distorts the low end. just too fuzzy for me. Does turning down the bass control on the pedal reduce the clipping on the low end or does it just reduce the low end all together?
 
#136
bassboysam said:
it's one of those pedals that I have wanted to try but in every clip I have heard I have hated how it distorts the low end. just too fuzzy for me. Does turning down the bass control on the pedal reduce the clipping on the low end or does it just reduce the low end all together?
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The bass control is after the clipping.
 
#138
bassboysam said:
it's one of those pedals that I have wanted to try but in every clip I have heard I have hated how it distorts the low end. just too fuzzy for me. Does turning down the bass control on the pedal reduce the clipping on the low end or does it just reduce the low end all together?
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IME, the bass and trebel controls are pre-drive since it gets more distorted if you raise their levels and leave the drive level the same.

IMO, the EBS is a more compressed sounding pedal than the SFT or greedtone, especially when you use alot of overdrive. of the three, the EBS seems to be the most capable of being uncolored when not using any overdrive, but only in the 'flat' mode. in the standard and tubesim modes, there is a boost in the midrange, but in those two settings the low end isn't getting clipped so just the mids and highs have overdrive. in the flat mode, the full bandwith is running thru the overdrive, so i find the flat mode to be great when using lower amounts of distortion.

i actually got the EBS to sound exactly like the SFT in the flat mode, but the SFT allows treble and bass boost and cut, whereas the EBS doesn't.
 
#140
johnk_10 said:
IME, the bass and trebel controls are pre-drive since it gets more distorted if you raise their levels and leave the drive level the same.

IMO, the EBS is a more compressed sounding pedal than the SFT or greedtone, especially when you use alot of overdrive. of the three, the EBS seems to be the most capable of being uncolored when not using any overdrive, but only in the 'flat' mode. in the standard and tubesim modes, there is a boost in the midrange, but in those two settings the low end isn't getting clipped so just the mids and highs have overdrive. in the flat mode, the full bandwith is running thru the overdrive, so i find the flat mode to be great when using lower amounts of distortion.

i actually got the EBS to sound exactly like the SFT in the flat mode, but the SFT allows treble and bass boost and cut, whereas the EBS doesn't.
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Sorry for the confusion.

There are three gain stages. The EQ is between the 2nd and 3rd stages.

Observe:

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