Backdoor Man
07-31-2005, 01:38 PM
I bought this from Music Ground in Leeds, for the rather nice and appropriate price of £69. I took a chance on it and bought it straight off, without playing it (not something I usually do but I was in a hurry and he offered to take it back if I didn't like, so I went for it).
The controls are pretty simple:
Volume - Takes you from quieter than your usual signal to a small boost. Not as loud as I thought it would be, maybe thats just my pedal.
Tone - Goes from a pits of hell bass fuzz sound, through to a Kyuss sounding mid boost to a mosquito in a tin can treble.
Sustain - Another word for gain. At its lowest it's still pretty woolly, and at its highest it gets a bit uncontrollable.
It comes in a nice sturdy metal case, which has been strapped to my pedal board quite happily, despite taking up twice the space a Boss pedal would. However, Boss don't make anything quite like this beast.
I'm not going to pretend this pedal is the greatest thing ever, or will make you play brilliantly, or even that you'll like it, so I'll just tell you what it can and can't do.
What it can't do:
Get you that palm muted 'chugga chugga' sound, it's just not happening, like trying to chug on treacle. It's a fuzz, not a distortion.
Give you nice light, clearly defined overdrives where you can hear every not in your Esus2maj7whateverthe**** chords.
What it will do with ease:
Give you immense walls of fuzz and scare your neighbours. Put it through a nicely overdriven tube amp and you have enough gain to cause even an indie ponce like me to write droning stoner riffs and start growing his hair out to his waist.
What it will give you if you work on it:
Some vintage zeppelin-esque fuzz sounds.
Endless sustain and liquid gain lead tones.
Evil scratchy fuzz and strange distortion overtones.
A surprisingly cool bass sound.
The urge to get a bigger amp.
The trick to getting a good sound out of this pedal is:
a) realising it is not designed for playing technical metal, therefore it will not give you definition and clarity. Instead it gives you huge walls of the hugest low-end fuzz this side of the Zvex Fuzz Factories.
b) finding the perfect mix between amplifier gain (just a tiny bit into overdrive usually) and fuzz gain.
Sounds you might recognise it from: Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Smashing Pumpkins, Santana, Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney.
The controls are pretty simple:
Volume - Takes you from quieter than your usual signal to a small boost. Not as loud as I thought it would be, maybe thats just my pedal.
Tone - Goes from a pits of hell bass fuzz sound, through to a Kyuss sounding mid boost to a mosquito in a tin can treble.
Sustain - Another word for gain. At its lowest it's still pretty woolly, and at its highest it gets a bit uncontrollable.
It comes in a nice sturdy metal case, which has been strapped to my pedal board quite happily, despite taking up twice the space a Boss pedal would. However, Boss don't make anything quite like this beast.
I'm not going to pretend this pedal is the greatest thing ever, or will make you play brilliantly, or even that you'll like it, so I'll just tell you what it can and can't do.
What it can't do:
Get you that palm muted 'chugga chugga' sound, it's just not happening, like trying to chug on treacle. It's a fuzz, not a distortion.
Give you nice light, clearly defined overdrives where you can hear every not in your Esus2maj7whateverthe**** chords.
What it will do with ease:
Give you immense walls of fuzz and scare your neighbours. Put it through a nicely overdriven tube amp and you have enough gain to cause even an indie ponce like me to write droning stoner riffs and start growing his hair out to his waist.
What it will give you if you work on it:
Some vintage zeppelin-esque fuzz sounds.
Endless sustain and liquid gain lead tones.
Evil scratchy fuzz and strange distortion overtones.
A surprisingly cool bass sound.
The urge to get a bigger amp.
The trick to getting a good sound out of this pedal is:
a) realising it is not designed for playing technical metal, therefore it will not give you definition and clarity. Instead it gives you huge walls of the hugest low-end fuzz this side of the Zvex Fuzz Factories.
b) finding the perfect mix between amplifier gain (just a tiny bit into overdrive usually) and fuzz gain.
Sounds you might recognise it from: Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Smashing Pumpkins, Santana, Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney.