I'm fairly sure this doesn't exist (I'd be very happy to be told otherwise) but these HH amps were the sound of Wilko era Dr Feelgood and Daniel Ash in Bauhaus as well as some Marc Bolan (The Slider album I gather), some early Rush (apparently) and loads of punk, new wave, two tone and goth bands. If they can make a reasonable facsimile of a valve Marshall, Vox or Fender in a pedal then something derived from the fairly early solid state design of the HH ought to be doable. That slightly farty distortion, that never quite clean clean channel.
Something you can plug into a boutique valve amp and make it sound like an SS combo from the 70s that's been rescued off a skip. I think some people would like that
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Got to say, I don't remember anything great about them other than the fact they were robust and reasonably reliable.
I do do have an op amp based fuzz pedal somewhere so I might try that out again at low-key gain, just for those moments when I imagine I'm in the Buzzcocks.
The Colour Box is an eye watering amount of money for an overdrive, it does have an active EQ which was part of the HH charm (I think).
Really .
"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
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"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 believe that Traynor's bass has that boom boom that all the boys like.
...goes to make more coffee...
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
it's the only music related thing I've ever sold that I regretted..
and I regretted it within days...
Back on topic a bit though, it does generally seem that all the modeling kit or the amp-in-a-box pedals go for the classic sounds and not the slightly more obscure sounds that do also sound good in the right context. There would definitely be a market for pedal makers that target the sounds of these sorts of amps and drive sounds
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