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Alternatively, if you only need to control mid boost and blend override functions, you just need a proprietary switcher cable which has resistors in series with the tip and sleeve connections.
It's all on their website here.
These accessories are not available yet so I guess I'll have a go at making my own cable in the meantime.
https://youtu.be/QfA3k5aNsMM
https://soundcloud.com/thefretboard/sets/sotm38-2018-07
If you are considering a purchase, it is well worth working through Simon Keats's videos, which start here:
I bought one last week based on some YouTube reviews (I know, I know) , tried all of the recommended presets, and I’m a little bit underwhelmed. Am I missing something?
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
I must admit that I do still question the RD.
I do believe that the two channels are fundamental. The extra setting of mid boost and blend should help in a live context.
This is not an ethos overdrive. It is an excellent tool for recreating tones. I would imagine that other drives would provide a voicing that can support your technique (provide extra sustain, compression, dirt, breakup).
It might sound silly but a lot of my dirt sound comes from how I play. The Rd helps create an amp tone/reaction that makes it easier for my technique to sound dirty. Is some cases the RD sounds clean compared to a traditional overdrive. But the reaction to my playing has more dirt and noise than my direct to amp clean.
I get compression, balance and sustain from my playing technique. I get dirt from the percussive plectrum on strings or hitting all the strings together.
I am not a high gain player so the RD helps provide the arena I can play in via tone and drive range.
I use a fuzz face in a similar way, except the ff provides an additional rip roaring blast. Technically, the RD does too, although I believe that should belong to a ff into the RD. Perhaps I’m mistaken but manic depression is a ff into a superlead. You can hear the guitar volume pot increase for the solo and decrease afterwards, a little too clean in fact and markedly different from the first verse.
im still uncertain about the bright caps.
I can not emphasise how much I use it to REcreate. Not necessarily create (I prefer clean amps for writing).