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Shin-ei Companion FY-2
- Thread starter GuzBaas
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I had the Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz clone FY2 - Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
That was a decent clone but in all honesty, it's a horrible sounding fuzz and unless you're in a Radiohead tribute I would avoid.
YMMV
Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz clone FY2 - Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
That was a decent clone but in all honesty, it's a horrible sounding fuzz and unless you're in a Radiohead tribute I would avoid.
YMMV
LOL I will listen to more demos before buying then...
But is the Unpleasant companion a good "replica"?
But is the Unpleasant companion a good "replica"?
I had the Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz clone FY2 - Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
That was a decent clone but in all honesty, it's a horrible sounding fuzz and unless you're in a Radiohead tribute I would avoid.
YMMV
Yeah it's very close to the original, it just has a slight tweak to allow it to have more volume on tap than the original (original barely got to unity when maxed out)
TaySte_2000 said:I had the Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz clone FY2 - Fredric Effects Unpleasant Companion
That was a decent clone but in all honesty, it's a horrible sounding fuzz and unless you're in a Radiohead tribute I would avoid.
YMMV
Agreed. I spent a great deal of time looking for an authentic FY-2, not to mention some good money to obtain it. When I finally got to play with it and after playing National Anthem a hundred times for a couple of weeks, curiosity was satisfied.
The ultimate "one trick pony". I found it too blah even at it's lowest gain settings. And, of course, it's uncontrollably noisy at it's highest gain. Sold it for a profit and moved on.
Not to discourage you but search this site or the Internet for demos of different bass fuzzes. There are more versatile and better fuzzes out there, IMO.
Or who knows, an FY-2 clone might be the one. Crazy! YES!
I think that maybe the Wattson FY-2 is the best that I have heard at youtube...
But I understand your point, it sounds great at one particular setting and thats it...
I have a DiceWorks Finale, and it has like 20 different setting all sound great, but they all lack something that the Shin Ei has, that robotic feel almost cold.
I'm with Tayste on this; I tried an original Shin-Ei FY-2 in a studio a few years ago. It was horribly thin on bass and the unit I tried actually had a drop in volume when maxed out... it couldn't even match unity gain.
I've seen more then one builder gripe about how much of a PITA the FY-2 circuit is to work with.
While I've never built one,...it is one of the more complicated Fuzz circuits judging from the schem I checked out.
I'm certainly considering it as the basis for a fuzz pedal though,...but with a boost circuit and a tone stack added to it.
That's in the short term future though,...I still got work to do on other circuits.
While I've never built one,...it is one of the more complicated Fuzz circuits judging from the schem I checked out.
I'm certainly considering it as the basis for a fuzz pedal though,...but with a boost circuit and a tone stack added to it.
That's in the short term future though,...I still got work to do on other circuits.
