Boutique Gear: When did you fall for them?
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Glad you like the pedal Namle. 
Tis a great pedal for metal tones... though people will complain about its lack of compression. Notice when you sustain a note, the note dies naturally? There's no added sustain, unless you turn the tone knob hard left. I love that. I think thats absolutely beautiful.
Tis a great pedal for metal tones... though people will complain about its lack of compression. Notice when you sustain a note, the note dies naturally? There's no added sustain, unless you turn the tone knob hard left. I love that. I think thats absolutely beautiful.
for cutting thru, the blackstone is outstanding. Its more cutting than all of the market stock pedals, and even more cutting than my skreddy, which isn't a surprise since the skreddy is fuzz based.
Blues? Maybe not. If you are a vintage blues tone purist. The blackstone has almost no compression on the Orange channel. On the Red channel the compression goes up but its nowhere near a TS's squish.
Does classic rock to a T.
Blues Boy Deluxe, check with Ciel/Ciel21. He loves it.
Bascially, if you like the tones of yesteryear, then the Blackstone wouldn't do it for it.
Blues? Maybe not. If you are a vintage blues tone purist. The blackstone has almost no compression on the Orange channel. On the Red channel the compression goes up but its nowhere near a TS's squish.
Does classic rock to a T.
Blues Boy Deluxe, check with Ciel/Ciel21. He loves it.
Bascially, if you like the tones of yesteryear, then the Blackstone wouldn't do it for it.
by sound of yesteryear, i meant the compression thing. And the way there is some mid hump with a bass/treble cut. The blackstone is ridiculously transparent, you don't get some bass cut, mid hump or treble cut... its your tone, all preserved, out there. And there's no compression to add more "sustain" or squish your tone.
Yes, it can handle single coils.
Yes, it can handle single coils.
Blues Boy is goodness. Very tweakable, nice dynamics, not as compressed but it can do a tube screamer style OD very well, the mid knob on it goes from flat to more mids than a ts.
You set the gain just right to your gear, light picking will give you clean dig in a bit more and it sings.
MI Audio really is doing things right, good pedals for a decent price. You might wanan check out a Blues Pro also, different from the Blues Boy Deluxe. Check with Edo on that one.
You set the gain just right to your gear, light picking will give you clean dig in a bit more and it sings.
MI Audio really is doing things right, good pedals for a decent price. You might wanan check out a Blues Pro also, different from the Blues Boy Deluxe. Check with Edo on that one.
theblueark
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I don't think the blackstone cuts through the mix very well. Tubescreamers with the mid hump cut through with much more ease.
And some of us don't feel that the screwdriver is fuzzy at all.
Just to let you know.
And some of us don't feel that the screwdriver is fuzzy at all.
Just to let you know.
theblueark, you have to hear the blackstone again i think... it clearly cuts much better than the tubescreamers, which sound kind of.. overly smooth. Lets a/b it next time for a better judgement, since I only had my TS9DX to a/b.
With regards to your comment on the screwdriver, on skreddypedals.com, Marc describes the Screwdriver as being "for everything from thin, twangy treble-boost to midrange grit to thick, fuzzy breakup." And the circuitry is includes a fuzz circuitry. If you were to listen closely, the Screwdriver, while possessing the traits of a distortion unit, has this extra fuzziness.
And besides, fuzz for you is big muff stuff. The Hellbilly was a rangemaster fuzz clone but that wasn't fuzz to you too.
With regards to your comment on the screwdriver, on skreddypedals.com, Marc describes the Screwdriver as being "for everything from thin, twangy treble-boost to midrange grit to thick, fuzzy breakup." And the circuitry is includes a fuzz circuitry. If you were to listen closely, the Screwdriver, while possessing the traits of a distortion unit, has this extra fuzziness.
And besides, fuzz for you is big muff stuff. The Hellbilly was a rangemaster fuzz clone but that wasn't fuzz to you too.
theblueark
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I'm basing the cutting through on the last gathering when ciel and me seemed to drowned you out. Maybe it was your blackstone settings, which you have tweaked better now. We'll have to listen again next time.
Fuzz to me is the fuzz face, the first pedal with the word fuzz in it, thereby coining the term 'fuzz'. So anything that sounds remotely like the fuzz face to me is fuzz. The screwdriver didn't. Nor the hellbilly actually.
Fuzz to me is the fuzz face, the first pedal with the word fuzz in it, thereby coining the term 'fuzz'. So anything that sounds remotely like the fuzz face to me is fuzz. The screwdriver didn't. Nor the hellbilly actually.
Well, yeap, lets gather again. Afterall, it could be the sansamp original or something. I seriously doubt its the Blackstone...
Well, fuzz sounds like... a whole bunch of different tones... i wouldn't say a fuzz face = fuzz = fuzzface. Like to me, a DS1 is fuzz at hi gain. A Big Muff is fuzz (duh). My hellbilly, a rangemaster clone, is fuzz. So on so forth.
The skreddy mayo is fuzz. All of Marc's stuff is fuzz based anyway...
Well, fuzz sounds like... a whole bunch of different tones... i wouldn't say a fuzz face = fuzz = fuzzface. Like to me, a DS1 is fuzz at hi gain. A Big Muff is fuzz (duh). My hellbilly, a rangemaster clone, is fuzz. So on so forth.
The skreddy mayo is fuzz. All of Marc's stuff is fuzz based anyway...
Hmm so where does the term Fuzz end and the term distortion start? I would describe my hearing of fuzz to fuzz-face as well and anything jimi hendrix sounding. Like its really hairy? Yeah but it seems everyone has a slightly differing view on fuzz.
I find stuff overly transparent a bit hard to cut through. Might be settings, but I think the mid-hump from ods like TS really do make a difference. Might be settings again, since I would set the TS to give a boost as well, giving it more volume and thus making it seem more cutting. But if its so transparent, then cascasding it, wow, might sound pretty good.
I find stuff overly transparent a bit hard to cut through. Might be settings, but I think the mid-hump from ods like TS really do make a difference. Might be settings again, since I would set the TS to give a boost as well, giving it more volume and thus making it seem more cutting. But if its so transparent, then cascasding it, wow, might sound pretty good.
