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Good and simple!
I don't need to mess up very much with reverbs for my guitar tone, basically 2 or 3 settings are enough for me. So this pedal is perfect for my needs but I wouldn't suggest it to everyone because it sure is really simple, meaning it gives you limited options. Instead of offering different presets like plate/spring/room etc, like many other reverb pedals do, here you have one single effect. But that's a really good one, and for the same money I'll always choose to have good quality with less options rather than more options and a lower quality. Yet I think the pedal is really versatile and can fit in different genres if you are willing to spend a little time with it and - of course - if you're not asking something really specific or dramatic from a reverb. If I'd have to define what kind of reverb this is I would probably say "plate", but turning up the verb and the decay knobs you can go up to lush and dreamy territories, while a shorter decay can give you something between a classic fender spring and a 80s plate kind of reverb. The EQ is also important, but imo what makes this pedal win the race against other pedals in the same price range is the pre-delay switch. Maybe is not the same for everyone but I can't think of using a reverb if I can't choose to have pre-delay. In many cases you just can't have the reverb eating the attack of your notes, even if it's a wonderful sounding reverb, that would still make your playing messy and will inevitably make you sound worse. I haven't tried any of the other 3 series pedals, actually this is the first JHS pedal I own... but I can say that what most of the reviews say is true: it's cheap because it's simple, not because it's low quality.
Great sounding pedal!
I use this to add a bit of compression and beef to my clean sound. Using il torino in boost mode is the best way in my opinion: it is perfect to add sustain, a bit of compression or just to boost your clean sound remaining incredibly transparent and faithful to your tone. Pushing the gain knob up a little it gives you a nice creamy tone, and the eq is very responsive making the pedal pretty versatile. Personally I found the OD section kind of useless actually... It's not hi gain, it's not a real overdrive unless you push the gain knob way up, and if you do that the result is really muddy and too much compressed. With the gain knob all the way down it sounds kind of similar to the boost mode, but then I still prefer using it in the boost mode, which sounds maybe more transparent and less compressed to my ears. Still, I think this pedal is totally worth the price also if you're going to use it in one mode only.
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Bullet proof, versatile, loud
With my band we have a couple of stoner-type riffs and I have a fuzz which is supposed to be suited for that but, no matter what kind of music I am playing, I really can't stand losing the attack of the guitar... So I was searching for something as much raw and dirty but hopefully with a little more attack, basically I bought this pedal for those riffs. Well, as many reviews and videos show , it really can do that and so much more! I'm pretty shure I'm not gonna use it only for those couple riffs but in many other applications. If you crank the distortion knob all the way past 2 it can be compared to a muff/fuzz kind of distortion but with more attack and definition. With the same knob between 12 and 2 it has that "nineties" sound it is best known for, a really aggressive distortion that mantains clarity and definition. And the sustain is just amazing... something you can only find in heavy distortion or fuzz effects I think. If you turn down the distortion it can also sound great as an overdrive. I compared it with a ehx soul food and a mooer pure boost, and honestly it was better. One peculiar feature of this pedal is the filter knob. It is actually a high cut (or low-pass) filter, this means that moving it you are adjusting the point in your frequency range where the filter starts cutting. The more you turn it up the lower the frequency cut will be, taking out the frequencies that are higher and leaving unaltered the ones that are lower. If you keep it at minimum, instead, there is no frequency cut. So keep in mind it is completely different from the tone/filter knob you find on most pedals. Those usually work in a addictive mode, while this is a subtractive mode. I am a sound engineer more than a guitarist so I feel at ease with this because I am used to work this way with eqs, but I guess for someone it can be not so comfortable. About the volume knob: not sure, but I think the main reason proco has manufactured this version is that lots of guitarists were complaining about the classic rat output level being too low. Well this is definitely loud. I mean really loud. One last thing I think it’s useful to say is how much it changes with the guitar you are using, much more than any other pedal I ever owned! With my SG it sounds ok, but I have to close the filter up to 2/3, otherwise the midrange is way too much, it really eats everything else sounding really ringing and acid with no bite. With my telecaster instead it is just AWESOME. It sounds fuller, more clear and the sound stays incredibly full and creamy no matter what I do with the knobs. Can’t really explain why… but no doubt I’m gonna use it with the tele. Seeing that Graham Coxon and other guys on the list above are devoted to fender guitars makes sense, this pedal apparently sounds way better with single coils than humbuckers.
Sturdy, versatile and good sounding
IMO it sounds just as the original one but this is half the size and weight... so it's definitely recommended if you want to fit a wah in your pedalboard. It also has a switch that lets you choose between 3 dfferent frequency ranges (Low, Mid, High of course...). I find this feature very useful and cool but consider that the switch is placed inside the pedal, so it's more about choosing the setting you prefer then stick with that unless you want to unscrew and open the pedal every time. I guess a lot of players used to classic wahs will find it too small and not so easy to control with your foot... I'll be honest about this: I bought it just to use it on a couple songs but I really suck at playing with ANY wah, so I can't really judge!
sounds great, really fun to use
I bought this pedal yesterday, today I tried it for the entire afternoon and all I can say is: awesome! I didn't even explore its settings that much yet... but it's clear that this pedal sounds GREAT, and it just asks you to mess with it
Awesome analog delay
Of course, it is brighter and a little more defined than the traditional carbon copy so I can imagine that a lot of people searching for that kind of sound wouldn't trade the original and successful version for this... but it beats me that Jim Dunlop even stopped producing this pedal after few years because it's just awesome! I tried the original version and I loved it, but I could imagine some hard times using it together with the other instruments (which is the only real complaint anyone has ever had about the CC i think). So guided only by youtube reviews and without even trying it I still chose to get this version secondhand and wait few days to have it, and I'm really happy about the choice. I got it and played with it for a couple weeks now, and IMO it's an awesome analog delay (brighter doesn't mean that it "sounds digital"), with exactly the same controls of the original and a really cool look... the only difference with the original CC is that this one will find its place in the mix way better, so for me that's an upgrade, certainly not a downgrade.
Can be used equally for bass or guitar. In my experience this is beautiful on guitars!
Unfortunately I don't have it anymore, butI used this amp many times, especially for recording. It can be used for guitars or bass, but frankly I find it way better on guitars (100w isn't that much for a bass amp indeed). The clean tone is simply beautiful, and you can reach a great variety of tones adding any kind of pedal, this amp is suitable for many genres from metal to blues to classic rock.
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think in the early 80s marshall assumed that the guitarist would have like 2 stacks and the bassist would have maybe 4 LOL
I like it, just a bit too big
Works fine and the chassis is almost bulletproof, the only flaw is it's not the smaller pedal so it won't fit on a very packed pedalboard
Sounds ok but don't even consider putting it inside a pedalboard...
Everything is made of plastic here... the chassis, the knobs, the buttons, even the screw to open and close the chassis (mine broke indeed). The three knobs are ridiculously small, making it very hard to find and "memorize" the positions you want to use. The on/off and the short/long delay switch buttons are so close to each other that most of the times you end up stomping on the wrong one. Even worse: they don't stick out enough from the chassis, and the classic spring movement seems to be absent, so it is very very uncomfortable to control this pedal with your feet. Despite all of these cons, the pro is that in my opinion the sound isn't bad at all, so I guess I'd recommend it as long as you don't have to put it inside a pedalboard.
Use it for nearly everything I do in the studio
Well actually I do not own a whole SSL console (def don't have that kind of money...) but I have a channel strip unit with 2 channels from the original console. I use it for recording but also for summing stems or entire songs during my mix sessions. I use its eq and comp a lot, but even if you bypass everything and just track something after sending it through this beauty you will enrich it significantly. Can't say anything less than "amazing" for SSL. It's just great
Transparent and cheap
I bought this almost randomly because of the price, then I ended up using it a lot! Actually I don't even use it like a boost because I don't really play solos but only rhythm. It can add a bit of dirt to my fender clean channel, alone or combined with EHX soul food, or also before my fulltone OCD to add a little drop of sustain and beef. I think it's really transparent, which is good because you can decide to throw it in the middle of your chain for subtle or more severe purposes without messing up the tone balance you have set on your pedalboard
First love you never get over it
I'm a proud and happy owner of a cherry red SG standard since 2003. First of all let's just say I am not the kind of musician that keeps his gear like rare precious jewels, always cleaning every tiny spot and almost scared of taking it out of home... This guitar has been played a lot live, I've been sweating and sometimes literally bleeding on it, it has more than a few scratches and tiny dips on it, and I made different tuning experiments with it. Despite all of this, when few months ago I brought it to the luthier for a checkup (just the second time in 15 years...) he basically told me he had nothing to do. Neck, bridge, board, frets, pickups and electronics... everything was almost in perfect shape. I guess when you buy a Gibson or any guitar worth more than 1000€ this should be normal, but still I think I’ve been lucky. So frequently I hear people complaining about small or big different problems with their expensive guitars. I have two friends that bought exactly the same model in the same period, and their guitars sound really different but most of all they go out of tune easily... Sometimes i take my SG out of the case after a week and it doesn’t even need to be tuned. I play for an hour or two and after that I usually need to tune the G and B string… that’s all. So again, I guess I've been lucky. To be honest, looking back at the period I bought it I think I wasn’t really conscious of the tone I was looking for, so if I could go back maybe I would buy a different guitar, probably a fender because getting a tele I recently discovered I am more a coil guy than a humbucker guy… At the same time I am conscious that for me, after trying out many other guitars, the SG is still the most comfortable guitar out there!
smooth sounding, easy and fun to use, CHEAP!
I am not a fan nor a user of fuzz/muff pedals, because anything "eating" the attack of the guitar too much always sounds like a downgrade to my ears, never an upgrade... So take my opinion here like the one of an "outsider" : ) Anyway, with my band we have a couple of riffs that I'd put into the "stoner rock" kind, so I was looking for something more appropriate than a cranked OD to play those riffs without spending too much. Well this pedal just did the trick, and I guess it helped me reconsider my opinion about the fuzz family a little bit... I haven't tried many fuzz pedals before, but they were all different versions of the EHX big muff, which I think is kind of a standard. Well, especially compared to the recent opamp version I found this one definitely less "flat" sounding and more "polite", as long as you don't crank the fuzz knob at more than 12 o'clock. IMO the fuzz and the tone knobs are the secret of this pedal because you can use them all the way from one side to another to obtain completely different tones, while the big muff sounds more like a "give or take" choice to me.
I love how it sounds!
I bought this guitar less than a year ago and honestly I'm still struggling a bit to get comfortable with its thick and narrow neck (I've been playing a SG standard for 15 years in a row so that's a big change, guess you know what I mean). But about the sound... I just love it! The center position gives me the clean tone I like the most so far, and the bridge coil is more or less the classic bright tele sound we all know. The humbucker alone is really dark and I find a bit difficult to fit it in the mix with other instruments, but it also has a very unique warm and mellow beauty, a lot different from the neck humbuckers you find on les paul or sg guitars. With overdrives, distortions etc I find it very versatile so I think this is a really cool guitar (mine's a japanese version so I guess an american model could sound even better!)
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Really nice, the rate knob is a bit too sensitive
I've been owning this pedal for years and I think it's great, even if I don't use a lot this kind of effect. Engaging it with depth at minimum you really can't hear any difference, and also when you use it in a more dramatic way it respects your tone, so I'd say it's definitely a transparent pedal. Great also if you use it in stereo mode with a electric piano! Still there's a flaw IMO: the rate knob is too sensitive... if I want to use it and be roughly "in sync" with the bands' rhythm, for most of the songs I have to set the rate knob somewhere between 7 and 9 o'clock. This means that the tiniest movement of the knob affects the rate a lot, and that's quite annoying for this kind of effect.
Super small super light
Got it like a month ago and it seems to work just fine. I haven't noticed any increase in the hum powering my 7 pedals with it, but the best things about it sure are its size and weight...It's way smaller and lighter than most of my pedals! Recommend it
Fun pedal but the volume increase is a big cons
I was looking for an auto-wah to use primarily with a clean sound, for "funky purposes". I tried this and a maxon af-9 and decided to buy the maxon at first, because it seemed definitely more versatile (maybe also because the guy from the shop talked me into buying it saying it was unquestionably better...) I spent an afternoon trying to get something i'd really dig out of it, unsuccessfully, so the next day I went back to the shop, gave the maxon back and got home with the ehx. I can say that for my purposes it was a good choice. You need to spend some time tweaking the knobs to really get what you want out of it (also depending on the pickups you are using of course) but this pedal is rather easy and fun to use. I play with a SG and a tele, and I ended up using it not only with clean sounds but also combined with overdrives. IMO the only problem about it is the HUGE amount of output volume you get anytime you engage it, regardless of your pickups, amp etc. So I wouldn't recommend to buy it if you're going to use it live on few songs, and if your pedalboard was patiently and carefully balanced and you don't want to fuck that up.