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Pearly gates
It feels like I died and went to heaven. I had awful single coil humbucker. Factory issued from a company called Skala (which I don't recommend at all). The new humbuckers are powerful, great sustain, great reaction time, clarity. I changed both neck and bridge. From a strat arranged to double Hummbockers
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Denio super over drive
So I go into a music shop and there it is it looks like the bastard child of a Boss over drive pedal, built in a sweatshop in a very dangerous hood. The knobs are funny, the numbers look well printed but suspiciously familiar and the brand... I have nothing by that brand. I ask the price $30 bucks..... I ask to try it and the clerk gives me this look "are you gonna buy it or are you waiting my time".
I buy it, it's new; and Im thinking: "if it sucks, well that was the price of 24 beers, damn..." I plug it in and we'll what do you know the bitch rocks. It tries to imitate a Boss pedal but it turns out to be a slum version of it but not in a bad way.
It has personality, the noise adds to it and if you really punch it and mix it with a fuzz, bum you got industrial and trash distortion (Ramstein, Metallica etc) Good value and I just had to pospone the beers for a week.
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totally love it.
want to improve a cheap guitar sound buy it, want to be heard in small cafés buy it, want to have a nice overdrive and gain buy it, want to have the power to make the floor contort with ur guitar buy it, want to be careles about care taking buy it, want to look different and cool buy it, want to have a warm tone buy it, want to be a piece of conversation (at least in Central America where they are pretty strange) buy it. BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT, BUY IT.
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if starting and poor as i was....do not think, buy it.
Layla as i call it was the answer to my hunger of modifications to my sound, it has an incredible noise reduction that i love and you can play for hours with only one pre-setup mode. But that´s the things its not very friendly and the name comes not from the song, but from a wench i use to know, easy on the eye, not gorgeous, very troublesome at first impression, hard to understand, with buttons that u have to know how to push, hard some times, and easy other times, but once you know her man u can have fun (for a reasonable price). The drum machine turns out to be a great jam inspiration, with some limitations of course. Now you have to bee very OCD about it if you want to use it at a gig, to set the songs before the jam in order, and remember the assigned number to the song u want to use it, if the settings are far apart and u want to use them fast; u better get a time machine. In conclusion good to jam alone or with a bunch of friends, in my opinion bad for gigs.
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got it, used it, i want to sell it.
maybe its how i play, or what, i play, but i do not find my self confortable with the way it behaves, do not like the kind of distortion it makes and some dials do not control the out put as i wanted to. It´s cheap so it was my first pedal (in the dream of having a large pedal board), but if you want to play to heavy distortion do not use it alone, use it with a fuzz pedal or a compressor pedal and then you will find your self in that yellow brick road in the way to Oz.
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a start fuzz
I really love this pedal, i got an used one of course when i went to Chicago, was my second pedal, and i could not wait to use it. When i plugged it the first time i could feel the metal in my hand (all of my other ones were plastic, sniff sniff, tear tear) and i had a cheap made in china guitar, and an awful amplifier, but it totally changed my sound, it boost my notes, and sustain my licks, i was finally where i wanted to be, and since that i been finding my sound, totally recomend this one if you are starting, today i wish i could have a vintage fuzz face like the on Jimmy use to have.
Now the negatives are that stars humming a lot, and i mean a lot once you get the volume dial over 3 or 4, and you must rely on mostly in your amps volume, fuzz goes great to the max. great to buy for under $90
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a silicon fuzz will hum a little but shouldn't be THAT noisey, some of the problem is probably from single coil hum and there's no way around that is you like true single coil tone... also, you probably don't want to crank any fuzz pedal's volume all the way up other than the more distortion type 'fuzzes' like the big muff unless you keep the fuzz low or plan to keep your guitar volume dialed back (this will counterintuitively brighten the tone and give you that Hendrix rhythm sound thru a decent marshall top)... also, make sure the fuzz is the 1st thing in your chain, even before a tuner unless you have a true bypass tuner like a polytune or korg pitchblack because if anything comes between the pickup and the fuzz the fuzz will misbehave getting thin, brittle and noisey.... its an impedance thing, but buffered fuzz designs just don't have the sound of the old arbiter and sola designs
you don't want a vintage fuzzface, they vary wildly from unit to unit and are incredibly finicky even as fuzzes go (good one night, terrible the next, pick up radio stations etc, even the blue box silicon versions like Hendrix used in the Axis era)