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Topic: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

Greetings,

This is my first post. Was wondering if anyone has tried the Giggity with a C5 amp? Would run it in conjunction with a Fulltone Plimsoul. Any thoughts?

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

Hi and welcome. No idea for your request but there are plenty of gear heads on here. Try the introductione thread and let us know about you, how long have you followed Joe, played guitar etc. big_smile

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

Greetings. Please introduce yourself. Maybe the mods can move this to the gear section.
I don't know anything about the giggity but I can say the class 5 takes pedals well so I'm sure you'll be happy with the outcome.

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

Didn't know what this was.
Quick google sent me to quotes of the Family Guy.
But I found this.
http://www.voodoolab.com/giggity.htm

Analog Mastering Preamp for Guitar

Giggity isn't just an overdrive or boost pedal. With its unique Body and Air tone shaping circuits, Giggity can help you fine-tune your overall sonic footprint. Placed after your pedalboard and before a clean amp, you can add a little grind, and thicken up the bottom by adding Body.

Placed first in the signal chain, you can add Air to bring out the high-end shimmer and detail in your guitar's pickups. Also features a 4-position "Sun" to "Moon" preamp voicing selector to help you dial in the perfect tone. Each pedal is hand built in the USA using high-grade precision parts, and features true bypass switching via a high reliability gold-contact relay.
Giggity features:

Four Unique Preamp/Gain Voicings
Body & Air Fine-Tuning Circuits
True Bypass via High Reliability Gold-Contact Relay
Plexi Top Panel
Hand built in the U.S.A

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

James Santiago does Eric Johnson almost better than Eric Johnson..

This pedal has been brought up here before. I think it looks neat and would be a good pedal to have especially since it doesn't JUST do overdrive. Myself and another forum member poked fun at the knob titles such as "air" etc, don't wanna open that bag of worms again but nonetheless, I'll bet it will do just fine in front of a Marshall Class 5. I have a few class 5s and several pedals in the arsenal here at home. From analog to digital, I've never felt any pedal didn't work well with that amp.

I've also done the stacked overdrive thing in front of my class 5 using a catalyst and ts808 with nice results. Also with a compressor, fuzz and ts808 and that worked nicely as well. I say go for it! -Seth

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

I've stacked overdrives in front as well a TS808 clone and a OCD clone both made by Joyo. They created a nice lead tone together especially at low volumes.

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

helrazr84 wrote:

James Santiago does Eric Johnson almost better than Eric Johnson..

This pedal has been brought up here before. I think it looks neat and would be a good pedal to have especially since it doesn't JUST do overdrive. Myself and another forum member poked fun at the knob titles such as "air" etc, don't wanna open that bag of worms again but nonetheless, I'll bet it will do just fine in front of a Marshall Class 5. I have a few class 5s and several pedals in the arsenal here at home. From analog to digital, I've never felt any pedal didn't work well with that amp.

I've also done the stacked overdrive thing in front of my class 5 using a catalyst and ts808 with nice results. Also with a compressor, fuzz and ts808 and that worked nicely as well. I say go for it! -Seth

guilty as charged big_smile! though I am not impressed with what I (just my opinion) consider disdain for informing the end user about operation/functionality (not a Voodoo labs invention, btw... i think DOD started that with naming knobs ridiculous things in those grunge pedals), I do think that pedal is pretty impressive in terms of sonic shaping.  Haven't seem something like that since the TC Parametric EQ/Sustain.  I say go for it.  Even I have been considering picking one up and relabeling the knobs, but really don't need one with my Celestial Effects lineup, and it is purely GAS.

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

This pedal seems to be what the newly introduced "Golden Cello" from Mad Professor wishes it was. That pedal has a built in delay but the entire thing is very compressed and in my opinion, overpriced. Agree with macg1 that Giggity does an excellent job at tonal shaping.

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

I would think for practice at home the tone would be killer... but with a drummer you might not want to run an amp wide open and then use a pedal with it.  I would think that would compress the sound and it wouldn't be any louder.

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

warning off topic...

I am the only immature one who is thinking Glen Quagmire every time this thread comes up on "new posts"?

Sorry, I could resist no longer wink

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Re: Giggity with Marshall Class 5

Just got a Gigitty pedal and I like it. I'm running into a 57 tweed deluxe (real one)  and a Gibson GA-20 with Fulltone tape delay into each. I run a few pedals before and then into the Gigitty -> delay -> amps. The gigitty is not an over powering pedal but it does smooth out the sounds, I'm going for the EJ tone (2nd from moon) and I just leave it on. It warms up the amps and these are warm to begin with, but I notice a change with the gigitty. I run older Barber Tone Pumps or Burn Unit and a Marshall bluesbreaker before it and they sound great with the gigitty. The gigitty add a little extra sauce on top, kind of a voicing for your rig.