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Topic: My parents got me a pedal for an early birthday present!

Sweet I just got an early Birthday present from my parents!  My dad was on Musicians friend the other day and found this pedal for $89 free shipping.  http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifie … tion-pedal
Haven't tried it yet, but I've been whinning about not having a distorion pedal so I can use my Blues jr clean and then step on the pedal for dirt.  Guess I should stop complaining now... Nah! 

Youtube has a few pedals that make me think I'm going to like this pedal a lot.  I doubt it gets that wampler sound I was wanting but hey don't look a gift horse in the mouth!

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Re: My parents got me a pedal for an early birthday present!

Congrats.....with-the new pedal.(now you won't have a surprise @ Christmas,,unless Santa is bringing more goodies over ...:)

And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually.........
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Re: My parents got me a pedal for an early birthday present!

Welp just got home and tried it for 10 minutes.  I think its going to be very useful and will save me from having to bring a boost pedal with me.  Basically you can set preset tones and distortion levels over 3 memory banks.  The sounds are pretty extreme with just the turn of the knob.  I'm going to go ahead a figure this is one of those pedals that you'll have to spend some serious time tweaking knobs to get just the right sound.  I just hope its linear when I crank the amp up louder, because it would be a pain to have spent a lot of time on 3 banks just to find out at concert volume they are thin sounding.

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Re: My parents got me a pedal for an early birthday present!

Post a vid cool

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  • From: North Carolina
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Re: My parents got me a pedal for an early birthday present!

All I've got is my cheap camera that takes pictures.  Its too late in the evening to play with it today, I'll play more with it on Friday I'm hoping.  With 3 kids I have trouble getting time to do anything while I'm at home.  50% of the practice I get is at work on my lunch breaks for 30 minutes!  Really helps when I'm just trying to stay fresh on songs I already know or if I'm struggling with a new song I spend the whole break working on it.

NPB_EST.1979 wrote:

Post a vid cool

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Re: My parents got me a pedal for an early birthday present!

So I have finally got around to really playing with this pedal.  From what I can tell Tech 21 does modeling pedals.  Its better then a lot of modeling pedals but its very difficult to dial in a great tone without using the recommend settings.  With the suggestions of the book you can change things ever so slightly before it gets wildly unusable sounds.  The EQ is the secret to the entire thing, the gain basically does what its supposed to but it has 2 gain settings to give you a cascading gain structure.  Gain Class A is the better of the two imho, sounding like a British amp like a Vox, and Gain Class A-B is supposed to do the Fender/Marshall type tones.  All of the best setting involve turning the Class A up high and leaving the Class A-B in the 9 or 10 o'clock position. 
To save changes to the pedal you simply double click the foot switch.  There are 3 foot switches giving you the option for 3 different tones.  I decided to go with a Tube Screamer type tone for switch 1, a classic cranked Marshall tone for switch 2 classic rock and bluey stuff, and a slighty more treble agressive tone for leads more modern rock.
I've got 2 other pedals that I've tried with it.  Both are http://www.modkitsdiy.com/ anyway these pedal aren't anything to brag about.  I tried one as a boost since it has 38 db clean boost.  Its alright.  I also have the Thunderdrive Deluxe which adds a little bit of boost and grit.  I hate the Thunderdrive Deluxe but with this pedal it makes a perfect boost pedal, but it gets a bit noisy. 
That being said I think I've got a decent little pedal board now.  If I had to I could play a gig with just the Tech 21.  Its not the distortion pedal of my dreams but it solves a lot of needs I had in my band so I'm extremely happy.  I sometimes go to practices and we plug in directly to a board so we can record and I must say this pedal is fairly transparent.  A good Tube amp will make this thing sound great, but through the board it sounds better then the ones I've tried.  Might try to do some audio tomorrow to put on sound cloud.

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