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Soundclip Monday

Comes a bit early ;) I did some samples last night and here they are for you to enjoy.

Right firstly all clips are using my Silver Valenti Jazz going into my pedals and then into my Iamp800 with all the EQ bypassed and then XLR'd into my computer so this is as close to a live DI'd tone that you're gonna get.

I will indicate in the clips if the bass was active or passive and what settings and such I've used.

Tone Factor Fuzz Saw
So this is a crazy SI based fuzz with a single knob that controls the volume there is no way at all to change the amount of gain you get so it's all crazy all the time. It works fine with active or passive basses and is incredably thick, I'm leaning to the possibly to thick as you lose quite a bit of note definition but you don't lose any bass so I guess if this is the massively saturated fuzz sound your after then you'd be quite happy.

The setting stays the same for the entire clip at certain points I use a pick you should be able to hear when as it gets a bit clearer, the bass was set to active all the way through.

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Tone Factor Omega

Decided that I'd never done a clip of this before and might be nice to compare it to the Fuzz Saw, for those of you who don't know this is an improved Subdecay Birthday Fuzz made by Brian at Subdecay for Tone Factor they only made about 50 of them, the Birthday Fuzz was also the fuzz the Subdecay Flying Tomato is based on so essentially this is a Flying Tomato without all the fancy controls like buffer, bias, starve, eq etc.

This pedal does not like actives the majority of the clip is using a the bass in passive mode but near the end I switch to active mode and you can hear how gated it gets which is kinda cool but maybe not what you want for your every day fuzz tone, I move the gain knob around a bit as well so you can hear it on 1/2 (When it starts) 1/4 (somewhere near the middle) and full (Just before it goes all gated) and then at the end I turn up the volume knob so you can hear roughly how much volume is on tap from this little beauty.

I personally prefer this to the fuzz saw, it's more synthy and industrial sounding but not overly thick and with my Barge Impedance Buffer I can use it with actives, but as stated this clip was done with my bass in passive mode into it.

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Tone Factor Copperhead

Now this is a 2 channel boost pedal that if you combine the 2 channels gives you a distortion/od similar to the mule but not as much gain on tap.

I start out with the most gain this thing can do, volume and gain maxed on channel 1 and gain maxed on channel 2 with the volume dropped to get it to unity, I quite like it but I did fine the pedal stays clean for ages and doesn't affect your tone at all so it's quite hard to show it being a boost as it's just you louder unless you start cranking controls and it sounds like various points in the clip. It works fine with active or passive basses and is on through out the entire clip in the middle when it is very very low gain it is just with one channel on and near the end I start turning up the volume so you can see the boosts power

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Tone Factor 442

Ok this clip is like 5mins long as I go carried away I love this pedal and start by using my preferred settings and then start knob twiddling on it and getting different sounds. I didn't bother adding any fuzz or things to it as I will do that Monday. Bass is active in this all the way through

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EHX USA Bassballs (w/Tone Factor Mobius)

Ok now this is really interesting, firstly I think its a crap pedal the filter is rubbish and way to subtle as you will hear in the first 1/3 of the clip then the distortion is nasty and loses bass etc as you will hear in the 2/3 of the clip but then I click the Mobius feedback loop on and it does something really really interesting and a few seconds after that i click to passive mode and it really F's up so I have to click back to active mode, you will know when this happens trust me :D

Now I sold this pedal a few mins before doing the clip and I'm now not sure if I should give the guy a refund and keep it :D let me know what you think.

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The Pedals

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Thanks for these. I think you've made me decide to get the 442! I love the sounds coming out of that thing.

EDIT: Regarding the bassballs clip, I see what you mean by the loss of low end, when I had my Bassballs russian I was very in-experienced with pedals and didn't listen out for low end loss. It's kind of putting me off getting one now. With the feedback loop it sounds crazy!
 
Thanks for these. I think you've made me decide to get the 442! I love the sounds coming out of that thing.

Wait till Monday I'm gonna set it up so you can hear it with the Fuzz saw then the Huckleberry then the Mule then the Omega and the Copperhead going into it and just wait till you hear 442 into Noisebox WOOOOOOW.

;)

I'm playing academy 3 tonight if you wanna come down and hear most of these in action ;)
 
I like the look of that Mobius - I can't find it on the Tone Factor home page. Anyone got any details? Is it like a smaller version of the Barge Concepts VFB-2? It looks very similar?

It's a lot smaller than the barge but its only a feedback looper not a blender as well, it's been removed from the Tone Factor site while he has some more made he's started removing items instead of having them say out of stock.