yup.. im curious to know if anyone has tried the cool cat, or maybe compared it side by side with a timmy. i think most pple are excited about the prospect of getting a timmy for much less money than the original.
whats a good stand alone smooth overdrive pedal
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yup.. im curious to know if anyone has tried the cool cat, or maybe compared it side by side with a timmy. i think most pple are excited about the prospect of getting a timmy for much less money than the original.
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Likewise, has anyone actually ABed the Biyang OD7 vs the Ibanez TS9, since they're supposed to be cloned twins?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHXOxnzmNkM
here's a link comparing both the timmy and the dano transparent od
the timmy does sound amazing though.. but the dano has its own plus points! definately gonna get the dano just to play around. anyone knows where i can find one?
here's a link comparing both the timmy and the dano transparent od
the timmy does sound amazing though.. but the dano has its own plus points! definately gonna get the dano just to play around. anyone knows where i can find one?
Oh, that's Mr Jack Black.
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Heh... No it's not... I know it's a rumour floating around, but Gearmanndude is not Jack Black. He came forward to deny it.
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Hahahaha... But the voice was really similar... Until one of his kids came in to steal a guitar... Jack Black has no kids.:twisted:
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he did???!
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Not Jack Black. Gearmanndude did... If I recall correctly.
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LOL. Jack Black. :-D
But his TO vs. Timmy comparison is indeed awesome. What I did was not to look at the video and just hear which is best and I cannot even tell which is which...
Actually, can tell. The Timmy was a bit more bell like and hollow, giving a nice "aw" tone. The TO was a bit flatter, and more "eh".
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If I like a cream kinda clapton tone, which overdrive is most advisable?
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I'm not niao already....i spared you the agony of going into the cap and resistor values too :evil: but seriously choice of opamp makes a big difference.
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Very objective there. But the only difference between the TO and the timmy is an opamp and a few caps...which to solder bunkers at FSB its more or less 90-95% of the timmy circuit.
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The price of a Timmy went up recently due to component and build costs as cited by Paul...its now 129 USD....still very affordable for a booteek efx although most ppl take advantage of the long wait time to make a killing.
Ironically, that would be less apparent now since the recent Danelectro "cloning controversy" would be a more viable alternative.....put your name down on the list and while waiting 8 months for your timmy to arrive you can simply make do with a TO!
This form of negative publicity is ironically good....Oh and i just went to Penin today....all transparent ODS are out of stock! Wanted to buy 2 for myself and a friend to muck around.
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Thing is, in a guitar, just changing a tone cap alone or adding a cap to the vol for a treble bleed alone can matter quite a bit in difference. What more a FEW caps and one entire IC? Those IC Chips are made up of various logic gates as a configuration. We don't know (or at lease I don't know) what each specific IC is meant to achieve in terms of gain. We only know gain stages, but that alone is not enough to make sense of things. This is why I asked Goose previously if bouqitue guys designed their own ICs and EEprommed them, or bought them off the shelf. There's a good change the boutique makers themselves might not even know what they're using, just that it sounds good. Maybe there's a NOR Gate there? or a NAND gate in there that makes a difference?
I dunno...
