... without totally f*cking & overloading my speaker. always a catch.
basically i want something i can DI that will give me a bass sound like this (start & end in partic around 00m10s & 3m00s), but 100x 'worse'.
i've got all species & mutations of distortions/overdrives/fuzzes but they break up in a more consistent linear & creamy & musical way. they don't do that completely craped out raspberry noise on certain frequencies. to be able to dial in those particular crapped out feqs would be a fun thing too. & bitcrusher variants not the same thing either.
boutique not an option on my budget. & maybe this is more an eq thing rather than a distortion thing. i've got a 6 band eq pedal (joyo mxr clone) but maybe i need parametric? any means to an end. have never tried a parametric in a stomp. & barely understood what i was doing with the desk one i have tried.
any ideas? thanks for your thoughts.
hofner hussie & hayman harpie. what she said...
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If that’s too expensive, get a cheap solid state guitar practice amp, and use the headphone output to DI. Seriously .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
i made a fuzz factory as one of my first pedal builds, which (on reflection) was not very smart as when it was finished i couldn't tell if it was actually sh*t or i had just built it wrong.
it got raided for bits almost immediately but was simple enough. the starve (stab) pot might be worth the rebuild to get this sound. or starve another diy fuzz i have lying around.
a diy fy2 i have (another first build), but i added a muff tonestack to make it sound less weedy. could add an on/off switch for that stack & see.
i have diy/cheapo analog octave down fuzzes (superfuzz mutants, joyo foxxx tone) but (as with fy2) they seem too consistently gritty across frequencies, rather than just crapped in one place, & i was thinking about some way to just bracket or over/under select frequncies to crap.
the bass just sounds choked until it bounces on that low note then it all splits apart.
apparently that's why hooky started playing up high, to avoid that crappy drop out & get back into the mix (& you can't deny he made good with it. genius at work).
anyway, i've got a behringer feedbacker-distortion pedal on which you can dial in the harmonic you want to accentuate & hold. something like that but that craps out, splits & chokes, rather than holds.
that's why i thought this might be a parametric thing. i'm chucking a word around i don't fully get the implications off (weekend research for me), but i remember the one i played with being like a wah pedal, you could bracket & include/exclude bandwidths quite precisely.
maybe one of those infront of a starved fuzzfac? will investigate.
edit. just remembered superfuzz & foxxx are octave ups. ok, will look into downs.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
but i think that (approaching the devi opus) was the point where i realised i all my playing time was disappearing down a time hole called 'diy pedal building' and decided to draw back. i am a writer player noisemaker whatever, first & foremost.
i keep meaning to buy a cheap devi (or a piece of her digital art, which i like a lot) to show support, but her shop outlet is sometimes here & sometimes not. 'unpredictable' is her calling card. she does what she does because she is who she is & i accept that. i like her as a character & i like what she is trying to do.
i know a lot of people don't rate her &/or hold grduges over her past problems, but i'm a fan (& anything else is another thread really).
but i don't buy boutique pedals purely because they are usually priced beyond me. the reason i got into modding then building was to make the little i could afford go further.
actually devi does one called the 'Torn's Peaker' (aka 'torn speaker'), which may get me into the zone. so thanks for the reminder.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.