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Swolen Pickle Suggested Settings

#21
RRuud said:
Thanks Vegas,

I had almost given up on this pedal, but your instructions made me give it one more chance.

After starting out with your settings and tweaking it, I ended up with a completely different setting but I guess i like a more distorted sound.

Thanks again:)
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I'm just glad that people are giving this pedal a reprieve, actually. The only bad thing about as far as bass use is concerned is that "the stock tone" is pretty useless on bass, admittedly. I actually showed one kid I know at GC some bass settings to help him when potential bass customers come in because he told me that bass guys were bagging on it. There are so many potential tones in the Pickle, you just have to experiment with the parameters a bit. I'm sure everyone who starts doing this is going to find their sound in very different ways.

Don't worry, guys, I haven't become a GC shopper...just helping out a friend of mine. ;)
 
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#22
Got mine after reading your settings--definitely a great place to start. Helped me find a bunch if great tones in just a few minutes. The WHSP MKII really lets through all the low end and fuzzes like a great fuzz should.
 
#23
chjohnst said:
I emailed dunlop and these were their recommended settings:

Loudness – Set to preference

Filter – 3 O’Clock

Sustain – Max Clockwise

Scoop – 1 O’Clock

Crunch – Noon

Clip – 3 O’Clock

Voice – Max Clockwise
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I tried this setting and even though it sounded great, I prefer my prior settings. It just goes to show that everyone's gonna differ, but that's what makes the variety of tones so wonderful. :bassist:
 
#24
Been jamming with this pedal for a bout a month now, for the life of me I can't get it to sound like a "fuzz" pedal should sound. I don't know what it is, I have tried so many different settings and adjustments of the internal pots and no matter what I do with it all I get is a really BOOMY (yet girthy) sound from. Almost like all of my lows are completely oversaturated and boosted.

When I think of fuzz I think of a dirty distorted driven sound, from the SP I just can't for the life of me get that to happen. Can a sound like this come out of this pedal? Please help if you have gotten it to sound like that.



Will give it another few days and even try moving my pedals around (might put my compressor before the pedal to see if that helps) otherwise she is going back. They have a used Big Muff bass pedal there for 40 bucks might have to give that a try.

Unless anyone can convince me otherwise..
 
#25
I know this is an old-ish thread, but I just picked up a WHSP and this is the most recent thread that talks about suggested settings in any detail.

This is a tricky pedal for sure. Seems like everything is a moving target since each knob is so interactive with the others. I really needed to sit and play with each knob and see what they each do, then move on to the next knob, then come back to that knob and re-adjust based on the new settings of other knobs, etc... However, it didn't take me long (like 15 minutes) to get a decent sound and I used it a bit at rehearsal on Monday and it sounded pretty darn good.

I went back at it yesterday using some of the suggested settings from this thread as starting points. What I ended up with is really nothing like anyone else suggested, but having a solid baseline (pun intended) was very helpful.

Fuzz is such a weird animal, and it seems everyone's opinion of a good fuzz sound is different. I'm not even sure what I was looking for, but I figured I'd know it when I heard it...and boy did I!!!

I found what for me was the sweet spot with the following settings:

Loudness - 9:30
Filter - 2:30
Sustain - Max (5:00)
Scoop - 10:00
Crunch - Min (7:00)
Clip - 9:00
Voice - 8:00

This was at home through my Ampeg B100R, both with and without an Xotic BB Bass in front of it. It REALLY roars now!!! I'm sure I'll need to tweak more through my full rig, but what sounds good through my B100R usually sounds GREAT (though slightly different) through my SVT!!!

I'd describe the sound as very aggressive, thick, wide, a little scooped, but with good clarity. A very over-the-top sound, which is what I wanted a Fuzz for.


I hope that was a helpful contribution...

-JV
 
#26
sorry for digging this thread but it seemed to be the only one with settings suggestions for the SP.

I've been trying to figure out a way to more or less reproduce Brian Cook's crushing sound from the last 2 Russian Circles albums, especially the end of the first song off Empros, 309, or the bass lin starting in the middle of Geneva. Anyone with an idea, especially for the internal trimpots? I agree that the "stock settings" are not ideal at all, but find it really hard to tweak them while playing... because as soon you change them, it more or less renders the external settings useless and you have to start from zero all over again... the moving target definition from blasjv is quite adequate :)
 
#27
i would assume he uses the pickle for the first bass solo in 309. that part is awesome. as for the end kinda sounds like his Rat pedal, maybe with the OCD on aswell?

Ive had the pickle for about 3 weeks. took me ages to get used to it, and i was close to taking it back. glad i didn't, its a monster of a fuzz.
 
#29
Rad!!! Glad they seem to be working for folks. I'm a little surprised, actually, this is such an 'interactive' pedal that I didn't expect one person's settings would be likely to work well with another person's rig. Glad I'm wrong!!!

When I kick this on it sounds like my whole rig is on fire and my cab is just busting apart at the seams!!!!!

-JV
 
#31
G3Mitch said:
i would assume he uses the pickle for the first bass solo in 309. that part is awesome. as for the end kinda sounds like his Rat pedal, maybe with the OCD on aswell?

Ive had the pickle for about 3 weeks. took me ages to get used to it, and i was close to taking it back. glad i didn't, its a monster of a fuzz.
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Are you really sure? I was able to get a quite "almost there" sound, by looking at the picture of the pedalboard of the starts thread, and trying to reproduce the settings. But even then, guessing the internal trimpots is a brain-killing experience, everytime you turn one, the other starts sounding totally differently..

But if you or someone else could confirm the crusing sound at the end really is the Rat, well then I 'll just buy one I guess.. I just want that building-destroying sound....
 
#32
Lebowsky said:
Are you really sure? I was able to get a quite "almost there" sound, by looking at the picture of the pedalboard of the starts thread, and trying to reproduce the settings. But even then, guessing the internal trimpots is a brain-killing experience, everytime you turn one, the other starts sounding totally differently..

But if you or someone else could confirm the crusing sound at the end really is the Rat, well then I 'll just buy one I guess.. I just want that building-destroying sound....
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yeah, hes got an awesome tone. the rat+od is my guess...perhaps with the whammy on octave harmony setting aswell? Ive got a rat tail coming in a couple of weeks. ill be sure to let you know if i can get a tone close to it.

cant forget he has a beast of an amp aswell !!
 
#34
And for those of you having fun playing with your Pickles (had to say that, am I allowed to?), once you get something you like, try a different amp. You get to start all over again. I love the sound my current settings are giving with my V4-b, but those same settings with my pf500, not so good. Still, to me, getting new sounds by changing the settings is part of the fun. I've only had the pedal for about 2 weeks.
 
#36
Bassics101 said:
And for those of you having fun playing with your Pickles (had to say that, am I allowed to?), once you get something you like, try a different amp. You get to start all over again. I love the sound my current settings are giving with my V4-b, but those same settings with my pf500, not so good. Still, to me, getting new sounds by changing the settings is part of the fun. I've only had the pedal for about 2 weeks.
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Funny. I just got a Pf500 with a ampeg 6x10 cabinet, and your 100% right. The pickle now needs some serious tweaking, I got it sounding ok without opening it up, but I think today I'll have a tweak of the internal knobs and see what happens.
 
#38
Just changed my strings out to DR Lo-Riders from EBs and running into my VT deluxe. I think I am in love with this pedal now. I am glad I kept it. One question, I seem to be able to dial in a real bass heavy tone with sustain, but looking for to dial on the spot something about more trebly but still holding the bottom end. Is that possible with this pedal? Looking for stuff I can use for solo-ing or think "around the world" intro by RHCP or stuff from muse where the notes are up in the mix more and not heavy sustain.
 
#39
Great thread guys... I am going to have to crack her open and adjust some of the internal knobs.

One thing to add for those who have "tone suck" problems. I have added an Xotic x-blender and have been setting 70% wet and 30% dry. I have found this really adds a tighter impact, less mud.... and if I want more face melting I just take off the blend and get all 100%.
 
#40
Just got a SP yesterday and found this thread. All posted settings were very helpful to help me understand this pedal (Thanx to Vegas, Blastjv, Chjohnst and JWR), I finally settled on:

Loudness: 8
Filter: 1:30
Sustain: 3
Scoop: 10
Crunch: 8
Clip: 12
Voice: max

I'm not sure I'm settled on its place in the chain. It reacts well to other pedals in its current spot (the Phase 90 practically shines), even with the LMB-3 ON, so it'll stay there for the time being. If I felt the Blowtorch had a bit of nasally sound coming out of my rig, I can say there's nothing of the sort with the SP. This thing is a monster !

Question:
Has anyone modded the SP as to have the internal pots accessible from the outside, or are these pots viewed more as "set-and-forget" ?
 

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