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http://www.musicgeardaily.com/damage-control-liquid-blues-79-special/comment-page-1/#comment-190

Most of us cant usually afford the Damage Control stuff, so I thought I'd post this offer I found.....

A $200 dollar pedal that runs on full plate voltage driven tube, for getting super sweet blues overdrive. Damage Control is known for making over the top superb pedals and - unfortunately - for high prices.

BUT.....go to this link and follow the prompts, become a fan of Damage Control USA on Facebook, then complete the order and VOILA!! A $200 dollar killer pedal for $79 bucks.

I just did this a couple hours ago and I've already received email from Damage Control USA support verifying the validity of the offer......AND I've already received the UPS shipping notice that it is on its way to my house!

WOW! That's some promotion! Even self-respecting keyboard players will want to grab one for their favorite guitarists!
 
Deal gotten in on. It's $95ish with shipping, but yeah, nice get.
 
Just got mine today!

This thing is FREAKIN AWESOME!! :D :D
 
Except for one thing...... I just realized that this one has a defective "Opto Comp" knob. I just sent them an email asking for an RA number.

Make sure you check everything fully as soon as you get yours!
 
Looks like a great deal...I just ordered one! :cool:

Not sure why the page said you needed to become their Facebook fan to get the deal...?

I just hit the "Buy Now" button on the web page and it took me straight to my PayPal with the $79 charge + shipping...for about $95 total.
 
Just ordered mine too. Thanks for the heads up!
 
A little unhappy they made me pay to return ship it. A lot of places will send a prepaid shipping label. But they said they will simply send me a new one as soon as they receive this one. The Opto Comp pot was cutting out, popping loudly, at times it would pop and then it was as if I had stomped on the switch and went into bypass. Twist the pot several times and it would eventually pop again and then be suddenly ear splitting loud.....

The part of it that played correctly just floored me. I was absolutely stunned when I heard it. Cant wait to get it back.
 
I've only tried it on my Gibson GA5 so far, and I'm a little underwhelmed. It sounds OK on a few settings, but nothing so far that I could use in a bypass->active->Nuclear continuum. It's sort of sluggish in the lows, and there is no knob to control it. The treble knob has a good range, but very little usable range, as it gets brighter, it gets harsh, very quickly. The compressor seems to have an extremely fast attack, so no snappy sounds here. The blend knob is cool, more dirt boxes should have one.
 
Just got mine today--so here's my (very) cursory review.

I've got six OD/distortion pedals, and while this one's better than many, it didn't instantly become my favorite. I only tried it with one guitar and one amp. In all fairness, my current favorites didn't become so until I experimented enough to find their sweet spot in my line up.

I do like the built in comp, and especially like the blend knob. At first blush, I think it's a steal for what we paid for 'em. I'll have to play with it some more to see if I think it's worth what they say they normally sell for ($200--is that right?).

Anyway, more in a couple days when I've put it through its paces.
 
I got mine today too.

I have to say...it's built like a tank! This is one serious hunk of metal. :D
And I like that the power supply has a normal plug at one end, that way you don't eat up two slots on the power strip.

Anyway...Just gave it a short test with a couple of amps.
It has room for dialing in...so it should be quite useable in a variety of settings.

The Clean Boost setting they show in the manual is on the money. It give an exact clean boost...not tone suck.

It has PLENTY of Drive/Volume...so no problem pushing most any amp.
I found the Clarity and Treble knobs to be the most critical in setting a good tone, and they are pretty sensitive, you can't just wing 'em any old way.

I have a few OD pedals now, but I think this one will fit in very nicely, and it has its own flavor...so no need to pick the "best one".

Great price for a whole lot of pedal! :cool:
 
Just a few things I had to say...

#1. A company that gets you to join Facebook may be getting a kickback from Facebook.

#2. They will use Facebook as a way to send new product promotions and specials (advertising/spam)

#3. More often than not, a product that is on sale (special deal/discount) is NOT moving like they want (poor sales) and they need to sell them, even at near cost (usually meaning the product sucks or is defective/has flaws and lacking in quality control)

#4. Most higher gain amps have enough distortion WITHOUT the need for extra pedals and usually sound better than most stomp boxes. (unless you find a sweet spot)

I've had lots of pedals in my life. One thing I HAVEN'T used much in the last 10 years is a distortion/overdrive.

Check out a Randall MTS series amp with a modded preamp module...then tell me you need a distortion box, too. :eek:
You'll thank me later.
http://mtsforum.grailtone.com/index.php

As for Damage Control, I've never heard of them. But then there are hundreds of stomp boxes out there. Is there really a need for so many? Can it make THAT much difference?...be that much better?
Obviously, if they are shipping out defective units, quality control isn't a priority for Damage Control.
Looks like some of you will be doing damage control yourselves...if you buy one.

Just my 2¢ :D
 
Clark Grizwald said:
Check out a Randall MTS series amp with a modded preamp module...then tell me you need a distortion box, too. :eek:
You'll thank me later.

Can it make THAT much difference?
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1. The "special" is available without joining or fanning on facebook.

2. I have received one and only one promo post on facebook since I did it.

3. This product does not suck. I am the only one of all the people I've read about who bought one who has had a problem with it. I had a brand new replacement in my hand 7 days later. I even bought a cheap used on off ebay and it works perfectly. It appears to me they are discontinuing the 3 or 4 pedals that quit selling so well in favor of plugging the ones that keep selling better, like the Demonizer, the Solid Metal. and Glass Nexus. I dont work for them, so that's just my guess.

4. This is not a pedal that should be used for high gain or with a high gain amp. The few people I've read about who tried that didn't like this pedal. I agree, if I had a high gain amp, why would I want to tack on a high gain pedal in front of it? High gain sounds bad enough the way it is, imo. I think most people who want high gain are sharp enough not to think a pedal called "Liquid BLUES" is going to be right for high gain work.

Yes, it can make that much difference. The people who get the sound they are after by just plugging guitar into amp with no pedals are the forunate ones. I've tried that, I tried that every night for a couple of years before I gave in to the pedal bug. Yes, it made a difference, and better pedals make a bigger and better difference. Now I'm fortunate enough to have two amps, one of them - the Mesa - I could use with no pedals and get 5 or 10 great sounds from it. The other one is simpler - a 5E3 Deluxe - and I need a couple three pedals in front of it to get more than just one great sound out of it. If I could run it full power all the time and that was the only sound I needed, then I wouldn't need any pedals, because the amp does that one sound extremely well, nothing else like it. There are hundreds of pedals out there and the competition is stiff simply because they can make the tone quest a little easier and a little more creative. The better ones may or may not do what they do as well as the Liquid Blues does it, and they will almost always do it for a lot more than $79 bucks.

My age old question is why would you buy an amp that has to be modded to sound good? Plenty of top shelf pedal makers have production problems and defect rates, and it is not realistic to expect Damage Control to be the one that's perfect. Even Keeley has to take a few returns and fix defects in his work once in a while. I dont work for DC, and I have no special affinity for their products, but this particular pedal is a great deal, has great specs, is built at least as tough as any other booteek pedal out there, and for the sound I'm after it gives me that sound far better than any other pedal set up I've tried, and I've tried a bunch. I'm not a DC defender, though I've made plenty of my own posts and threads showing how easy it is to jab at products that turn up with defects.
 
A GREAT pedal and I say this from the perspective of having around 70 of the damned things.
I find it to be larger than I'd like because it'll take up a lot of real estate on my pedal board but it's fairly amazing in that it can have a sustainy overdriven response without being distorted because of the ability to mix in your clean sound. Every distortion should have one of those. You can get the behavior and sustain of a serious overdrive with no buzziness. Very nice.
I find it to be way smooth and very versatile.
It's not a metal pedal but for any other type of overdrive I'd have to rate this one very highly.
 
Clark Grizwald said:
But then there are hundreds of stomp boxes out there. Is there really a need for so many? Can it make THAT much difference?...be that much better?
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yep ..... the funny thing about distortion boxes is how much different they all sound.
As for the amp ...... for most people buying a pedal for a hundred bucks or so is MUCH easier than buying another amp plus if you make a bad choice on a pedal it's not catastrophic financially whereas a bad choice on an amp might be.
Lastly ..... it depends on what you do ..... I do hired gun work and one night I may be playing twangy country and the next night I'm doing Southern Rock ..... jazz the night after that and then Santana the next.
Few amps will do all of those equally well and pedals are a necessity for me.
It may be the Mesa MarkV will take care of all my distortion needs but I doubt it. There are so many different flavors of distortion and I need many of them from night to night.
 
Clark Grizwald said:
Check out a Randall MTS series amp with a modded preamp module...then tell me you need a distortion box, too. :eek:
You'll thank me later.
http://mtsforum.grailtone.com/index.php

As for Damage Control, I've never heard of them. But then there are hundreds of stomp boxes out there. Is there really a need for so many? Can it make THAT much difference?...be that much better?
Obviously, if they are shipping out defective units, quality control isn't a priority for Damage Control.
Looks like some of you will be doing damage control yourselves...if you buy one.
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The Randall is nice...but by no means THE only amp to have! ;)
Same thing with OD boxes.
I use to be an amp-only purist a long time ago, never bothering with OD boxes or any kind of pedal for that matter. Then I stopped looking at OD boxes as a way to get my tone...but rather as a way to alter my tone. I also learned that there isn’t a "one-amp-does-it-all"...unless you only play one kind of tone/style of music. I have several amps in my studio, all are top-notch, higher-end amps...but even my little Epi VJ has it's sweet spot! :)
I also have several OD pedals...and like the amps, every single one sounds different.

So it's not about "better"...it's about having flavors! :D
Last night I had two amps hooked up via ABY (Dr Z Prescription ES and Savage Macht 12X)...and I had 3 OD pedals strung together.
Each amp sounds totally different from the other, and the pedals were all set for a particular tone flavor and I could just step on the footswitches and pull up all kinds of sounds.
Very cool.

AFA quality...the Damage Control pedal is one of the better built pedals that I've seen. You could probably drive-in tent stakes with it and not break it as it has a serious, hefty metal enclosure.

Oh...I also didn't have to do any Facebook stuff. I just went to the Damage Control website and hit the Buy button! Great pedal for an $80 deal!!!
I even bought a spare Power Supply...as those things tend to get lost and/or mangled if you move things around a lot, and it's a PS with higher than normal current supply (2000mA) than your typical 9VDC...so not something you will find in a hurry if you need a replacement.
 
Bit of trivia for ya'all.....

This Liquid Blues thing sounds a lot better if you put a nice compressor in front of it. I am using pickups that are relatively low/lower output, so I suspect I was not driving the Liquid as much as I should. I stuck a Tone Press in front of it, or a CMATMODS Signa Comp, and now it has that extra singing sustain and clean grind to it that was missing before.

Worth a try if you want it to be a bit more punchy.....
 
Clark Grizwald said:
#4. Most higher gain amps have enough distortion WITHOUT the need for extra pedals and usually sound better than most stomp boxes. (unless you find a sweet spot)[/I]
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One comment there - actually, in the contemporary metal world it's pretty common to see guys taking high gain heads and putting a boost in front of them - a Tube Screamer into a Rectifier is pretty common, it's sort of the "Andy Sneap" sound. This is done not because a Rectifier needs extra gain, but to change the way it distorts - a TS9 will roll off a bit of low end and focus your guitar sound a bit more solidly in the midrange, so it tightens up the response somewhat, and adds more odd-order harmonic content due to the slight amount of solid state clipping introduced when you use it as an almost-clean boost.

Personally, I by and large prefer my Roadster unboosted, but I have a TS9 simply so I have the option - I've noticed layering boosted and unboosted tracks with otherwise quite similar settings sounds quite good together.
 
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