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Also does wicked fuzz tones, full and thick or ultra piercing angry garage tones.
Not tried it as an overdrive. But maybe I'll do it someday, if I find another going cheap enough.
I bet if they took the same circuit, painted the case red and relabelled it as the "PFB-2 Parametric Fuzz-Boost" it'd sell by the bucketload!
I do get plenty enough mids though. Are you playing through Voice 2 on your V40 as that has more mids, plus there is the mid-kick switch (admittedly that seems to add low mids so I don't use it)?
I find with the Archer than more mids are added as the gain is turned up on the pedal, can get quite honky if too much.
I have been contemplating an extra drive with a bit more gain though for the Tele as as I don't like too much gain from the Archer as it's too compressed and mushes out a bit for me.
I was thinking about a Thorpy Gunshot, which by the look of it is bit like a Fulltone Plimsoul with 2 unique drives that can be blended, or a Plimsoul itself, or due to the latest Pedal Show, a Kingsley Harlot. I have also considered a Fulltone OCD but think that may have a bit of a scooped sound.
The thing I want in a drive is that fast transient attack and not much compression, which is why I like the Archer.
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My strat pickups are vintage voices. Kliens s7-s, lovely pickups but pretty low output.
Reason is I'm using voice 1 to keep the amp clean, because I put my delay in through the front of the amp. Can't be arsed with the FX loop! Also I've been using the Tumnus as a boost pedal. Might try using this as the primary pedal with the strat.
So my thinking is keep the amp clean and scooped and switch in the mids from a pedal.
I play lead so mostly single note stuff btw.
If you are not getting the sound you want using using the excellent Tumnus and Dude it possibly is the lowish output of your S-7s that needs a bit of help. Either a GE7 or a fat boost pedal in front of your overdrives, or maybe a SD Pickup Booster/buffer, might be all you need. I've sometimes used a Toadworks Meat Jnr to achieve that. Why not take your Strat and your two O/Ds to a store where they are happy to let you try a GE7 and some boost pedals up front to see what you think? And while you're there perhaps try a Peacekeeper if they have one
Here is a vid that shows pretty well how a Tele into an Ethos can sound. Skip everything before 8.25, which is mainly chat. They are hot rails in that Tele but an eq'd boost after your S-7s could sound similar.
No. It struck me as a bit expensive compared to similar competition but if it gives you what you want........ It's clearly heard in several Matt Schofield You Tube vids and It sounds great - of course
phones Mason Vertex.
I think I'm going to try out the suggestion from @Jimbro66. Will take my guitar and drives to a local store and try out a GE7 and maybe a Micro Amp.
The thinking is my drives are fine but need to make up for the lower output pickups with some sort of boost before the drives.
They have a decent range of pedals and got to try them with my pedalboard wth a princeton reverb.
got to try:
boss ge-7
providence final boost
xotic EP boost
fat boost not sure of brand
I tried them one at a time into jrockett the dude, dude into tumnus.
the ge-7 was brilliant but Christ it was noisy!
I went for the EP booster. Love it. It really fattens up the strat. It's a great rhythmn sound. So now adding in the dude or tumnus for leads. It seems to add more mids and helps the amp compress a bit.
The MT-2 is a very very underrated pedal. The trick is to not whack the gain right up, I rarely have mine past 1/2-2/3rds of maximum at the highest setting.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Yup, ge-7s can be noisy.
It's worth trying a few - they vary in noise quite significantly, though I only discovered this fairly recently! If you do get a noisy one it's easily modded, but I really wish Boss would sort it because it's easily one of the most useful pedals you can get...
Glad you worked it all out though!