I ,like that ..... I don't find it excessively bright ..... it's more like greg said ..... has a nice 'bite' to it ......
I'm not a fuzz guy but when I was young, I had a Mosrite Fuzzrite ..... supposed to be one of the very first, and I'm sorta on a quest for that sound .... like The Music Machine ... 'Talk Talk'.
Forgot to mention, that's the telecaster on the bridge into the Jackhammer going through the clean channel of the bandit into a shit mic. I flick to the neck pick up on one of the guitars for the lead. That was a bit spur of the moment. I hate "writing "lead. It's nearly always off the cuff.
That's pretty great to me. I'm not much on fuzz myself, but you did a nice job with that. Pretty gnarly, but not excessively noisy or harsh. Sounds pretty damn good.I recorded this after fiddling with my JHS Firefly Fuzz pedal for a few hours. I'm still not really in love with the pedal, and the relationship between the knobs is kinda complicated for a 4-knob fx pedal. I have a feeling that once I find the right balance between the bias and the volume, I'll get a less mid-scooped kind of sound. It's down and dirty, I just want a more clipped, raw sound. This just sounds more like early heavy metal to me.
This is basically the same settings on my DSL that you've all heard before, but with the Firefly driving the front end instead of my TS9. The only difference is that I backed off of the gain because this pedal is a freaking beast. I recorded this a while back so I don't remember the exact knob positions but this is a fair approximation:
Gibson LP Classic -> JHS Firefly Fuzz -> DSL40C Creamback green channel (clean) -> Audix i5 -> FMR RNP
Fuzz:
Volume - 40%
EQ - 100%
Bias - 0%
Fuzz - 25%
Amp:
Gain: 6
Volume: 8
Treble: 2
Mid: 6
Bass: 4
Presence: 2
Resonance: 0
Once you've listened to the first 40 seconds, you've pretty much heard it all...it just repeats a couple more times. I was on a roll
Haha, that was awesome. That's some really nice sax blowing boob. Great sound in there too. Yall were nicely balanced out.Here's a clip from that gig I did a few weeks back with Tommy Talton and friends.
First .... the recording is a Teac DR-05 set on a balcony railing above the stage .... no mixing possible .... this is just the two built-in mics.
I was mostly there to play bass and once I got on stage to play my one sax song with Tommy he never let me back down so everything after that was totally off the cuff.
This is a song I'd heard before but I've never played it .... so this is me winging it ..... in fact about 1:36 in, you can hear me stop for a second 'cause I think I'm thru ..... then they were going, "No-o-o-o-o ... keep playing" ....
That damn Jackhammer is probably why I'm not totally thrilled with that kind of sound. I've never been one like to a dirty pedal into a clean amp. But that's just me. I'd say get a better amp first, but if you insist on getting your dirt from a pedal, maybe go with a better pedal.
I think all my recent tones on my Soundcloud are using the Jackhammer. Most of them are Jackhammer into a clean ampsim as opposed to a real amp though.
Thanks man, yeah, it's a bright-ass amp, no doubt about it, but it can be dialed down with the eq & mic placement....I tend to like brighter tones too, sometimes I get carried away...The 609 can be a bit bright on it's own, & you're right, it does blend well with other mics, like a '57...
Yeah dude, I'm betting it's not the amp at all, I'm betting it's the pedal because we basically have the same amp, & you've told me about the same thing when I use a pedal for the dirt with the DSL....He just needs to twist some knobs on the red channel, it's there, you just have to find it...
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Not totally right, the total amount of signal going to the power section is what drives the power tubes. If the master is wide open and the Volume down low you still won't drive the power tubes.
well, the T-Dynamics isn't really an attenuator.
well , short answer is yes.