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Timmy C Discovery!
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Bill Brasky is the father of every kid in this town!
I could go on for hours. It's a running band joke.
I could go on for hours. It's a running band joke.
"He did 3 tours in 'Nam...... I was in Corpus Christi on business a month ago. I had this eight foot tall Asian waiter, which made me curious. I asked him his name. Sure enough it's Ho Tran Brasky!"
"Timmy C's" lame pedal board pales in comparison to the genius that is Brasky.
"Timmy C's" lame pedal board pales in comparison to the genius that is Brasky.
Grind It Out said:
Yeah thats what i thought - it looks like a riser. What is interesting is what the two pedals he has before the dual 105Q wahs could be? They are slightly out of shot, but I think one of them might be his original Marshall Guv'nor, from the 70's. It sounds like he definitely runs some sort of overdrive/distortion before the wahs, but this may be routed from somewhere else in his signal chain.
Any other guesses to what these two boxes might be?
the other 2 boxes: 1 is a delay pedal, the other is most likely osme sort of signal routing...remember, wires can snake all over the place - his o/d and distortion DO come BEFORE the wah in his signal chains, but he places the wah pedals on the right side of the board and snakes cable back around to them so he can use his right foot to go between his footswitches and the wahs more easily...i do the same with my setup, and its a lot more comfortable
I was looking more closely @ the "riser", and it LOOKS (not sure if its definite) to have patch cables going in/out of it, so maybe its actually something more...y does he have to be so messy?!
I was looking more closely @ the "riser", and it LOOKS (not sure if its definite) to have patch cables going in/out of it, so maybe its actually something more...y does he have to be so messy?!
My guess is that these little boxes are risers and splitters.. the pedals fully at left are just his delay box and a splitter which seems to go to the two overdriven rigs, so He just has to plug it in there and h'es fixed... and the clean would the go from out of the comperssor
I just got the new bass player and I did a scan for you boyz.
It's a few homemade devices, Aphex Punch Factory*, MXR Micro Amp**, and two Dunlop 105Q Crybaby Bass Wahs with a wood plate.
*Why do you think there's black tape on the Punch Factory? Also, does it seem ironic that the level knobs are both at 50%?
**What does the Micro Amp do?
It's a few homemade devices, Aphex Punch Factory*, MXR Micro Amp**, and two Dunlop 105Q Crybaby Bass Wahs with a wood plate.
*Why do you think there's black tape on the Punch Factory? Also, does it seem ironic that the level knobs are both at 50%?
**What does the Micro Amp do?
Petary791 said:I just got the new bass player and I did a scan for you boyz.
It's a few homemade devices, Aphex Punch Factory*, MXR Micro Amp**, and two Dunlop 105Q Crybaby Bass Wahs with a wood plate.
*Why do you think there's black tape on the Punch Factory? Also, does it seem ironic that the level knobs are both at 50%?
**What does the Micro Amp do?
no clue about the black tape, but hey! we found out what was under the octave - a signal router
the micro amp is just a gain boost...notice his is set to max, i believe he uses it to drive his 2nd amp into furthur saturation, or to get some mroe grit/boost out of his fullrange amp
Petary791 said:
Black tape: Musicians of his fame get paid to use/promote products. He might not have an Aphex endorsement, so chooses not to give them free advertising...You can see that the Ampeg Logos are covered up too (except for the one on the bottom left...). He might have an MXR endorsement, and it's a better deal than Aphex, so perhaps there's a stipulation in his contract that he can't advertise another manufacturer. And perhaps, he's still raging against corporate America and the trademarking of our cultural soul. :scowl: -- brooding.
If you haven't played on a Punch Factory, you wouldn't know that with the knobs at 50%, it's still doing something, just not to the extremes that it's capable.
All good points Mo' Phat. I have a Punch Factory, but I normally have the drive cranked, and I figured he might have it cranked... whatever. 
Petary791 said:All good points Mo' Phat. I have a Punch Factory, but I normally have the drive cranked, and I figured he might have it cranked... whatever.
But, then again, Timmy thinks that the Earth will implode if anybody knows his tone secrets, so perhaps he tweaked everything just a little bit and then gave the photographer the okay-go sign. Or maybe the pic spent two weeks under his Photoshop scrutiny to be altered so any and all attempts to replicate his unique noise would be futile.
i'm not gonna lie...i kinda agree. either he's a bigger tone nerd than ALL of us put together, or he's just being complicated for the sake of being complicated...like a guitarist. like, wouldn't some of this stuff start cancelling each other out? btw, yes two q105s sound like poo when run in series...trust me 
fenderx55@yahoo said:btw, yes two q105s sound like poo when run in series...trust me
I think he runs them to two seperate amps, so each amp is getting the same wah effect but after whatever fancy distortion/OD pedal is in front of it. So it's parrallel, not series. Because that's soooooo necessary when your singer blew out his voice 5 years back and sounds like kermit the frog nowadays anyway, and your drummer can only play one pseudo-hiphop beat...
at least Morello keeps it fresh.
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