Sunday, July 29, 2012

Sustain for days... Zen Drive + Keeley Compressor

This video got cut off.... but you can kinda get the idea.  This is a strat using single coils into a 35 watt fender pro reverb amp set to like 2 or 3 on the dial...  Keeley comp into zen drive=sustain and warmth for days.  The keeley comp cuts off some treble, and the zen drive isnt a very bright pedal... this is a dark tone using these two... but my camera mic is doing most of the high end cut off.  I'm working on mixing in a 57 with the room mic on the camera, but it's such a PITA to match up.  we'll see!  If you somewhat like what you hear, just come on over, bring your guitar and amp... or I can come to your place with my pedals and have a pressure free jam out on some high quality musical instruments!  no pressure to buy whatsoever!  ENJOY and watch at 480p


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Super Sick Fuzz Circuit- Roland Bee Baa Fuzz/Clean boost

Getting very deep into pedal circuits I always love finding out about awesome, lesser known vintage pedals.  Like the boss slow gear, the Pearl Octaver, and this... the Roland Bee Baa Fuzz.  This pedal actually doubles as a slightly "trebley" clean boost pedal.  It has a switch for more treble emphasis, and I added a toggle switch for making this thing get super freaking nasty by removing a smoothing capacitor off of one of the transistors.  Knobs for gain, tone, volume and the boost circuit has it's own controllable boost volume.  The sound of this pedal is HUGE.  reminds me of the DAM meathead pedal, but with way more options... somewhere between a very present big muff (tone control bypassed muff maybe) with a modded boss ds1 and a bit of silicon tone bender with the treble emphasis.... Very HUGE sounding, pretty versatile... and the black sparkle enclosure I used has blue, gold, white, silver and red sparkles in it... making it look like a starry night

however, this one sold already, within 2 days of building it actually.  But I can always build more of anything... and anything you can think of for that matter.  Big thanks to lvlark at tagboardeffects blog.  The most generous dude ever!