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All-tube overdrive/distortion with strange EQ
Not to be confused with the vintage non-tube EHX Hot Tubes, this version is an all tube distortion. According to a review on analogman's website, there's no sand on the signal path, so all you get is oozy 12VAC 1000mA powered valve distortion. The stock tubes are 12AX7WB (supposedly, there might be some variation). I think this one came out before the English Muff'n. So it's all nice, then we get into the EQ, and things get strange. You have BASS and TREBLE controls, and from my experiments, they work like this: With both off, you get a straight up overdrive with nothing changed on EQs. This usually sounds a bit harsh and trebly. When you start rolling the BASS up, you a frequency peak that begins appearing between 2khz and 3khz, and as you keep rolling up, it rolls down all the way to 150hz, and increases in gain. The TREBLE control does the same, but instead of moving down it goes up to 7.5khz. Apart from that there are GAIN and DRIVE controls, and I'm not sure in what each of them differentiates from the other, but they're different. Maybe gain is the input gain and the EQ is applied after the tube gain and the DRIVE is applied after that… who knows? If you roll the GAIN and both EQs down, and roll the DRIVE all the way up you get a slight breakup sound. As EHX states, the controls are very interactive amongst themselves. I find myself using it mostly with the EQ off or with both set almost all the way up. Apart from that there's a master volume control, which does exactly what it's supposed.
818
The ultimate analog noise machine!
This is a great analog multi-effect (sort of) pedal! All effects are delay based, you have Filter Matrix (which is sort of a "frozen" flanger, you can manually move it or set it on a fxed position), Flanger (a bit mild, not as pronounced as the usual suspects), Chorus (which goes from subtle to too-much-with-a-bit-of-delay) and Double Track (which is basically a short delay). It might be a bit of work to find a regular chorus sound, if that's what you're after, but it it possible. I like to use it (in Chorus mode) with both Rate and Range set at 9'o'clock, Delay and Feedback off. And the noise possibilities on this pedal are awesome. In any of the 4 modes you can go into self-oscillation by turning the feedback knob all the way up, and get weird noises by moving the other parameters around after that.
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818
Great pedal but might not suit everyone.
The classic Double Muff is an overdrive/fuzz, which consists of 2 Muff Fuzz circuits cascaded (whatever that means) into each other. The controls are very simple (and that's one of the things that makes this pedal so much fun to use for me), there's only one knob for each circuit, which adds volume and gain together, and a switch that lets you choose between using only one circuit (which gives a nice mid-boosting overdrive) and using both. When using both, one of them acts more like a volume control, and the other adds gain. You can get into fuzz territory when using both circuits together. Another nice feature is that you can clean the sound up A LOT using only the volume of the guitar. Then there's one issue, this pedal has to be the first in chain to sound good (even before a true-bypass tuner), if there's anything between the pedal and the guitar, you're in treble hell.
818
I beg to differ
Robert Smith never used Squiers, there were no Squier VIs back then... he used the original Fender VIs, he has a lot of them, maybe 6 or so. Nowadays he's using the Ultracure VI, which is a recreation of the Fender VI from Schecter (it's the one on the profile picture).