New Gear Acquisitions

[Jake]

Yessir, that's the Fender. There's a Squier version with the creme/gold color scheme.

The latter is better suited for my fragile masculine ego. And my wallet.

http://www.zzounds.com/item--SQU0301060

[RacerX]

I see. Nice!

Too many switches on those contraptions. I prefer the Blacktop model:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/fender-blacktop-jazzmaster-hs-electric-guitar/h61569000002001?src=3WWRWXGB&cagpspn=pla&gclid=CLKZw-nBlLACFQUGRQodlg191Q

If it came in a hardtail model, I'd be all over that shoot.

[AgentofOblivion]

50th Anniversary of a 1960 ES-335.  I fucking love it.  I've been (stupidly) gigging with it but can't imagine NOT playing the damn thing. 

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[VOLVO)))]

Gorgeous Gibby.

Am I the only one that thinks the blacktop series feels like cheap garbage? The only one that felt worth a damn to me was the Baritele...

[Worthless Willie]

That's a shame about the Blacktop series, Sunn.  I haven't played any in person, and had hopes they'd be good.  Oh well.

[RacerX]

Same here. Haven't actually played one yet, but I'd like to.

I already know fer damn sure that I don't like the regular Jazzmasters.

[VOLVO)))]

Ive played the Jazzmaster, and the teles. They feel.. thin. I don't know how to explain it, they just felt sluggish and weak... not in sound, but in general. Hopefully somebody understands that...

[cat shepard]

http://www.elliottguitarsnc.com/gallery/

These are pretty awesome but I can't afford one, i've just seen them at gigs i've worked.

[liquidsmoke]

Got the Behringer Super Fuzz and I'm sure most of you know all about this thing already but to me it sounds like old Electric Wizard in a pedal only a shitty version instead of the awesome version on the albums. This is kind of what I remember hearing years back about the original Boss unit. Running it into an eq helps somewhat and I'm guessing that the right overdrive would help even more. Oh well.

Mehringer 

I imagine other companies have made similar pedals that sound better but I'm not in the market right now to spend actual money on something for that tone. Maybe down the road.

[VOLVO)))]

Sigh, don't you understand the processes called MASTERING and POST-PROCESSING?

Frankly, the SF300 sounds dead on to the Boss, and Boss, with the proper EQ on the amp sounds damn close to the album. So does the Guyatone fuzz. So does the Foxx tone machine, somewhat. So does the superfuzz.

Just because YOU can't do it, doesn't mean it's the pedal's fault.  3:45 in the video, it's actually a very awesome sounding pedal.

[liquidsmoke]

I watched an a/b video with the boss and the Behr before ordering and couldn't tell the difference. I know it can be made to sound good, I've owned Come My Fanatics and Dopethrone for a long time. Yes mastering, post-processing, etc. Perhaps my amp isn't the best match though. Totally not the pedal's fault. Maybe you missed my    I was a bit harsh on the unit in that last post and that was dumb but I have heard before that it's hard to dial in and I agree, at least with my set up. I'll probably fuck with it some more this weekend. I got it because it was cheap and I was curious. I had no intention of using it with my band but if I can dial it in better and have time in the future it might be fun to use for some derivative sludgy doom type stuff. I'm actually kind of surprised there aren't lots of EW clones using it but maybe there are and I just haven't heard them.

[moose23]

Use it for solos.

[clockwork green]

Get an FZ-2, you'll be happier. Your experience with it is the only thing that should matter.

[Jake]

Perhaps my amp isn't the best match though.

I can't defend a pedal I've never heard, but I can attest to just how true this is.

An example: I came on here gushing about a Swollen Pickle fuzz that I picked up last year. Biggest, baddest fuzz I've heard in a looooong time, despite the general internet apathy surrounding them. Now I've come to realize that a huge part of the what was making everything sound so gravy was the JCM800 that was behind it. The Pickle just sounds sorta okay-ish with other amps, no matter how I try to recreate what the Marshall was doing.

[liquidsmoke]

Get an FZ-2, you'll be happier. Your experience with it is the only thing that should matter.

The youtube comparisons I've heard were identical but if I was really into these things I would spend the extra cash for the Boss for sure because it's metal. I felt like I almost broke the Behringer simply taking the top off and putting it back on to put a battery in it.

[Hemisaurus]

Get an FZ-2, you'll be happier. Your experience with it is the only thing that should matter.

The youtube comparisons I've heard were identical but if I was really into these things I would spend the extra cash for the Boss for sure because it's metal. I felt like I almost broke the Behringer simply taking the top off and putting it back on to put a battery in it.

Y'know it's discontinued, right? There's one on ebay $88 and 3 days of bidding left, good luck 

[liquidsmoke]

Perhaps my amp isn't the best match though.

I can't defend a pedal I've never heard, but I can attest to just how true this is.

An example: I came on here gushing about a Swollen Pickle fuzz that I picked up last year. Biggest, baddest fuzz I've heard in a looooong time, despite the general internet apathy surrounding them. Now I've come to realize that a huge part of the what was making everything sound so gravy was the JCM800 that was behind it. The Pickle just sounds sorta okay-ish with other amps, no matter how I try to recreate what the Marshall was doing.

Interesting. I'll try the Behr with my newly acquired Ampeg SS.

Side note, the Laney GH(my only tube amp) is sometimes said to be very similar sounding to the JCM800 but with more gain.

[liquidsmoke]

Y'know it's discontinued, right? There's one on ebay $88 and 3 days of bidding left, good luck 

Yes for over 10 years now.

Dude..

The youtube comparisons I've heard were identical but if I was really into these things I would spend the extra cash for the Boss for sure because it's metal.

But thanks for the heads up. I priced them the other week also.

[Hemisaurus]

I've found simpler, unbuffered, fuzzes, boosts and OD's, work well with tubes. I prefer them to the SF300 on simple tube amps, though it's OK with overcomplicated tube amps, Nick, do you need a new thesis topic?

[liquidsmoke]

Not sure I'll ever own a "simple" tube amp(less/no gain knobs, PTP?) as they seem to go for a lot of money. Okay perhaps in the future I will get the Boss if I just REALLY need that EW tone and can't get it no way no how after further tweaking the Behr.

[Hemisaurus]

Simple Tube Amp == Any tube amp that doesn't use a pile of op-amps in it. So JCM800 simple, JCM900 complicated. Bugera 1960 simple, 1990 complicated. etc.

[liquidsmoke]

Simple Tube Amp == Any tube amp that doesn't use a pile of op-amps in it. So JCM800 simple, JCM900 complicated. Bugera 1960 simple, 1990 complicated. etc.

Ah. I know next to nothing about this stuff. Do op-amps sometimes replace tubes in pre-amps?

[Hemisaurus]

More they get used with the tubes, it's easier to mess with EQ in gratuitous ways ie. boost it, using op-amps. In the below schematic, the op-amps are the big triangles, the tubes are the circles with the dotted lines.



The signal has to go through a few op-amps before it hit's a tube, I find they don't always react well to a simple fuzz, but an SF300, FZ2 or Muff, sounds fine, as they have a buffer on the output, and sound similar on any type of amp input.

For comparison, here is the SuperLead JCM800

[bitter]

Ohhh, I thought an op-amp was what happened when a tech legally change an amp over from tube to solid state 

I guess that's a post-op-amp 

[liquidsmoke]

Interesting.