Yeah I like thier demos too. And he likes way huge. I wish this were just a little longer though.
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Yeah I like thier demos too. And he likes way huge. I wish this were just a little longer though.
The Swollen Pickle I find a lot more touch sensitive at lower settings on the "sustain" control.
could not read the complete thread: is the "Russian Pickle" supposed to be another "clone" of the old, green, huge, heavy, built-like-a-tank Sovtek Muff? If so, how close to the original? I never use my green Sovtek for gigs, it´s more like a collector item to me, but i really like the sound.
Here's a good demo if youtube is working for you. It sounds pretty awesome.
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I feel the same as @Sartori, at lower gain settings it does pretty good at touch sensitivity. The RP is a pretty musical muff. I can tell quite a difference playing with fingers to a pick even at high gain settings so there's that. There is so much mid presence interplay in the tone and gain knobs past noon. It's really neat.
I have no idea but this is a query I'm interested in hearing the answer to as well. I've always wanted an OG Sovtek but never pulled the trigger due to the high prices they fetch and from what others have said having unreliability issues. But I still want one. The other thing is the fact that you could buy three built in the same month and they will sound completely different so it's sort of a crap shoot. But I would still like to see a comprehensive A/B with an old one to the RP. I wanna say that the OG versions have more gain on tap overall, but I could be wrong. The RP still has plenty of saturation on hand.
Have any of you with an RP in hand tried it with an active bass? Or maybe tried it after another pedal that gives it a hot signal as opposed to direct after passive bass pups?
Works great with both my stingray and L2500.
I don't have a BBM currently but from what I can remember from the two I had the RP stomps the BBM.
Yeah I use an ibanez ATK 300 as my main player. I have an active P and a passive P/J at home I use all the time. All of them are great with the RP. Responds well to everything I've thrown at it.
I'll say this again, I've never understood the big huge thing with "how does that fuzz respond to active bass"....not to take away from your question. But I just don't get it is all. I've almost always used active basses woth every dirt pedal I've ever had. And I've never had issues. Maybe it's just my ear. But I've never played a fuzz or other dirt pedal that didn't really respond favorable to active electronics.
Only thing I can think of is my fuzz face sounds like crap with my stingray but yeah every other pedal I've used sounds fine.
Ok, I think I get that. I've played a fuzz face with an active bass before and yes, it sounded like crap haha
Thanks Greg, as with most things, I had no concerns at all, then I read something
Another thread talking about other fuzz boxes. I completely forgot, calling it a fuzz box, I actually made a fuzz pedal in the 70's for a gigging band. I was in high school taking electronics and helped them out. Guitarist had a dead pedal he asked if I could fix which was way beyond my capability, but I found a "fuzz box" circuit in an electronics rag and built it in the broken pedal box, one very overdriven clipped transistor and he loved it. I'll bet it sounded like !@#$ and we didn't know any better
Maybe it burned the place down a few years later after I moved away.
Thanks Greg, as with most things, I had no concerns at all, then I read something
I completely forgot, calling it a fuzz box, I actually made a fuzz pedal in the 70's for a gigging band. I was in high school taking electronics and helped them out. Guitarist had a dead pedal he asked if I could fix which was way beyond my capability, but I found a "fuzz box" circuit in an electronics rag and built it in the broken pedal box, one very overdriven clipped transistor and he loved it. I'll bet it sounded like !@#$ and we didn't know any better
That’s cool man! Who knows, that could’ve been like one of the coolest dirt circuits ever built. IT could’ve been like the ultimate fuzz box. But it most likely wasn’t haha you never know! I bet you really want to hear that thing again now after all these years and after everything you know now. Talk about hindsight haha
I wonder why they had the volume on the Swollen Pickle turned down so much lower than that of the Russian Pickle.
He could have balanced them better, the Swollen Pickle is MUCH louder than the RP overall
