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Anyone on here tried one yet? The Giggity is said to really give a clean Fender amp a plexi tone that will get you into Eric Johnson territory when combined with another overdrive or fuzz. Very interesting concept as it is placed last in the effects chain and the sound clips on you tube are very convincing.
It has almost a Tube Driver sound to it.
Never heard of these. Sound pretty good, plus Santiago or whatever his name is from Voodoo Lab has some nice chops.
Giggity....Best pedal name ever.
So what makes this a "preamp" and not just an "overdrive"? Are they just trying to sound fancier? I mean, sounds like there is a powerful EQ tailoring on the pedal. I loathe it when companies use esoteric names to describe functions, like "body" and "air"... just write the frequency range you are manipulating and be done with it. Silly marketing.
I agree with you wholeheartedly macg1. I am going to do some heavy experimenting with some of my various overdrives last in my chain and a delay and my tube driver before it. When he describes his setting on the Giggity for the EJ tones, he says he has it set on plexi tone with a slight amount of break up. I have a couple overdrives that will do that very well. So I will experiment with them before I dump $149 on a Giggity. But it would be great to get a really convincing EJ violin tone out of a one amp (Fender) set up.
I loathe it when companies use esoteric names to describe functions, like "body" and "air"... just write the frequency range you are manipulating and be done with it.
I raised an eyebrow when I saw those as the knob descriptions, you nailed it! I do like the sound of the pedal though, but I have no use for it.
We should start a "pedal parameter nomenclature association"; a not for profit and nonsense based system of using frequency units (Hz) and gain units (dB) to describe knob functions. Hoosier, helrazr, let us join forces 
So what makes this a "preamp" and not just an "overdrive"? Are they just trying to sound fancier? I mean, sounds like there is a powerful EQ tailoring on the pedal. I loathe it when companies use esoteric names to describe functions, like "body" and "air"... just write the frequency range you are manipulating and be done with it. Silly marketing.
Except this really is a totally unique pedal with unique capabilities. I've never seen another pedal that can take a Twin Reverb and make it sound like a convincing '69 Plexi Marshall. AND vise versa, he made a warm Tweed sound like a sparkly Twin. This pedal does more than just your basic overdrive with 'bass' and 'treble' controls. I don't see any silly marketing, I see ingenuity and a real tone shaping tool that most players can use. He's had this pedal in the works for years now, I don't think James Santiago was simply trying to cash out on a cheesy pedal design knockoff, especially considering the affordable $150 price tag. All this IMO and YMMV
Stratpaulguy, have you tried this pedal? I may have been a little skeptical because many pedal manufacturers have tried to turn a Fender into a Plexi and never quite got there. Does the Giggity really pull this off? If so, count me in!!!As I said in my initial post, the you tube clips are very convincing, but I would like to hear from someone who is using the Giggity.
macg1 wrote:So what makes this a "preamp" and not just an "overdrive"? Are they just trying to sound fancier? I mean, sounds like there is a powerful EQ tailoring on the pedal. I loathe it when companies use esoteric names to describe functions, like "body" and "air"... just write the frequency range you are manipulating and be done with it. Silly marketing.
Except this really is a totally unique pedal with unique capabilities. I've never seen another pedal that can take a Twin Reverb and make it sound like a convincing '69 Plexi Marshall. AND vise versa, he made a warm Tweed sound like a sparkly Twin. This pedal does more than just your basic overdrive with 'bass' and 'treble' controls. I don't see any silly marketing, I see ingenuity and a real tone shaping tool that most players can use. He's had this pedal in the works for years now, I don't think James Santiago was simply trying to cash out on a cheesy pedal design knockoff, especially considering the affordable $150 price tag. All this IMO and YMMV
please read my post carefully. i did not say the pedal itself was a silly marketing thing. The nomenclature on the knobs are. I dare anyone to define what body and what air means in real physical terms. I also did say that the pedal sounds like it has some good EQ capabilities.
stratpaulguy86 wrote:macg1 wrote:So what makes this a "preamp" and not just an "overdrive"? Are they just trying to sound fancier? I mean, sounds like there is a powerful EQ tailoring on the pedal. I loathe it when companies use esoteric names to describe functions, like "body" and "air"... just write the frequency range you are manipulating and be done with it. Silly marketing.
Except this really is a totally unique pedal with unique capabilities. I've never seen another pedal that can take a Twin Reverb and make it sound like a convincing '69 Plexi Marshall. AND vise versa, he made a warm Tweed sound like a sparkly Twin. This pedal does more than just your basic overdrive with 'bass' and 'treble' controls. I don't see any silly marketing, I see ingenuity and a real tone shaping tool that most players can use. He's had this pedal in the works for years now, I don't think James Santiago was simply trying to cash out on a cheesy pedal design knockoff, especially considering the affordable $150 price tag. All this IMO and YMMV
please read my post carefully. i did not say the pedal itself was a silly marketing thing. The nomenclature on the knobs are. I dare anyone to define what body and what air means in real physical terms. I also did say that the pedal sounds like it has some good EQ capabilities.
it's hard to define lots of real stuff when it comes to guitar tone. anyone who ever had a custom amp built can surely attest to that. i can only imagine what a builder thinks when someone says, "i need more horn like qualities" or "more articulation". there is no articulation cap or a horn cap. but lots of builders seem to be very capable of taking these nontechnical terms and translating into something real. my only point is that when it comes to tone, lots of the terminology is obscure.
w/ pedals, i prefer terms like body and air. voodoo could have marked those knobs w/ frequencies, but that would have probably been the most unhelpful thing they could have done, imo. i don't know much of anything about freqs, but it is really easy for me to strum a chord and turn the air knob and body knob and hear what they do and the terms that do use help give me a way to talk about that sound. i have a giggity and it sounds to me like those knobs must be manipulating several freqs at once, too. as always, different strokes for different folks.
I need more cabbage on the top end of the hair.
I need more cabbage on the top end of the hair.
ok. i still say there's no problem w/ the terms voodoo chose. i had some pups made. some of the characteristics i asked for are: dark, articulate, fat, hollow, round, resonant. i don't know or care how any of those related to frequencies or output or winding technique, but the builder sure did, because what i got was what i asked for. if unable to wrap you mind around adjectives, i don't think that a builder's problem.
regarding the giggity, i think the body and air knobs sound like body and air. and a pedal w/ a cabbage knob would be cool, too. sounds like fun!
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