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Southampton Pedals show some love thread!!

#305
emjazz said:
Definitely one of the best looking pedals around? How does it sound?
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So I messed with it for about 20 min tonight. The right side is the overdrive. The overdrive is always present to some extent, even with the gain all the way down. It gets pretty aggressive at higher levels, and seems to me, to emphasize the mids. There are controls for bass and treble, with good range, so you have good control over adjusting the taste of the overdrive. There is also an overall volume output knob for the OD.
The left side is the delay/reverb side. So the idea, I think is that they work together. At some settings you have both effects, and you can also set the knobs to where it's more of just one of the effects.
There is a switch to choose between spring and hall. The hall setting gives you the longer delays and bigger reverbs. There is a knob for feedback and one for time.
Lower to no feedback and higher time gives you delay and the opposite reverb. Middle positions of both gets you the mix of the two effects.
Maxing both, you get the huge hall with infinite delay effect.
There is also a mix knob to add or remove the amount of dry bass to the effect.
This is my rough review based on first play. YMMV and so forth.
I do not use much reverb or delay, so this pedal is good for me to have a basic reverb and delay in one package on my board. Both effects sound very good.
I could see players who use reverb and delay a lot maybe wanting more control and features of dedicated pedals.
The Indie dream looks great and is built great too!
 
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#306
mrwood4 said:
So I messed with it for about 20 min tonight. The right side is the overdrive. The overdrive is always present to some extent, even with the gain all the way down. It gets pretty aggressive at higher levels, and seems to me, to emphasize the mids. There are controls for bass and treble, with good range, so you have good control over adjusting the taste of the overdrive. There is also an overall volume output knob for the OD.
The left side is the delay/reverb side. So the idea, I think is that they work together. At some settings you have both effects, and you can also set the knobs to where it's more of just one of the effects.
There is a switch to choose between spring and hall. The hall setting gives you the longer delays and bigger reverbs. There is a knob for feedback and one for time.
Lower to no feedback and higher time gives you delay and the opposite reverb. Middle positions of both gets you the mix of the two effects.
Maxing both, you get the huge hall with infinite delay effect.
There is also a mix knob to add or remove the amount of dry bass to the effect.
This is my rough review based on first play. YMMV and so forth.
I do not use much reverb or delay, so this pedal is good for me to have a basic reverb and delay in one package on my board. Both effects sound very good.
I could see players who use reverb and delay a lot maybe wanting more control and features of dedicated pedals.
The Indie dream looks great and is built great too!
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Exciting. I don't have any modulation effects on my board (Dirt King checking in) so I'm super wanting to try one of these out! My board's completely full though...... Perhaps setting up a secondary board is in order..
 
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MDBass said:
The 5th Gear is an incredibly versatile pedal...nothing else I've come across can go from barely there OD to dynamic drive, to intensely saturated fuzz, and it stacks with other pedals remarkably well :thumbsup:
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So how are you using it in this clip, especially with the other pedals listed? Is it the V1 or 2? It's hard to pick out the details with the backing track, but the sound does fit in nicely!
 
#312
x52dcd said:
So how are you using it in this clip, especially with the other pedals listed? Is it the V1 or 2? It's hard to pick out the details with the backing track, but the sound does fit in nicely!
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It's V2, but with the Heat all the way down and the gain around noon.

It's being used as both a fattener and boost to hit the rest of the chain harder, and it's definitely adding a good amount of harmonic grit on it's own as well.

I'm currently doing a cab shootout, and the soloed tone will be available on both a YouTube video and SoundCloud playlist before NAMM.

Thanks for the kind words :)
 
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Modulation knife is here.

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MDBass said:
It's V2, but with the Heat all the way down and the gain around noon.

It's being used as both a fattener and boost to hit the rest of the chain harder, and it's definitely adding a good amount of harmonic grit on it's own as well.

I'm currently doing a cab shootout, and the soloed tone will be available on both a YouTube video and SoundCloud playlist before NAMM.

Thanks for the kind words :)
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Thanks for the detail. I'll have to put my v1 back on the board and try boosting my Darkglass VMT Dlx...
 

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