GDSmithTX
Corporate cog
Bought this little guy on sale for $24 a couple of weeks ago, but only opened it up and plugged it in last night. Very nice classic-style delay; there's a lot of analog sweetness coming out of this ridiculously small 1" x 1" x 3" package. Adds no noise to the signal chain that I can hear, even under gain.
Despite its Ant Man size, it seems built sturdily enough, and the knobs have just the right amount of smooth resistance. It's kind of a matte-ish pearlescent yellow with a hint of lime green and a small biohazard symbol on the front. A cool enough look I guess, though I prefer this guy's reimagining:
I may have to get the decals off and do a little Sharpie-doodling on mine.
By the way, on my screen that picture above is 30% taller than the actual pedal. What I'm saying is: this thing is frickin' small.
Through the Shaman Retro, on the clean channel with the gain about 8pm, a bit of this and a bit of my EHX Holy Grail plate reverb gave me one of the nicest chimey, shimmering guitar tones I've gotten in a while. The notes have all kinds of extra character that dies away cleanly before it gets too muddy. Adding a bit more of the same low-repeat delay gives an excellent roots rock sound, very Brian Setzer live.
With a little more delay and some moderate boost from my Full Drive 2, it put out a greasy "Waitin' on the Bus"/Billy G. kind of sound; warm and round and a little hairy. I bet if I'd run that setup through a 4x12 instead of a 1x12, I could have copped that feel perfectly. It was real chewy and fat, just .... wow. Along with a few beers, I noodled around with that tone for like two hours straight doing bad Joe Perry/Gary Moore/Paul Kossof/Santana impressions. It was just inspiring as shit.
For the price of two movie tickets, this things is amazing. Worth twice as much and with such a miniscule footprint on the pedalboard .... ? By Grabthar's Hammer, what a value.
This pedal seems almost the equal to the Carbon Copy I used to have, and much less expensive.
Despite its Ant Man size, it seems built sturdily enough, and the knobs have just the right amount of smooth resistance. It's kind of a matte-ish pearlescent yellow with a hint of lime green and a small biohazard symbol on the front. A cool enough look I guess, though I prefer this guy's reimagining:
I may have to get the decals off and do a little Sharpie-doodling on mine.
By the way, on my screen that picture above is 30% taller than the actual pedal. What I'm saying is: this thing is frickin' small.
Through the Shaman Retro, on the clean channel with the gain about 8pm, a bit of this and a bit of my EHX Holy Grail plate reverb gave me one of the nicest chimey, shimmering guitar tones I've gotten in a while. The notes have all kinds of extra character that dies away cleanly before it gets too muddy. Adding a bit more of the same low-repeat delay gives an excellent roots rock sound, very Brian Setzer live.
With a little more delay and some moderate boost from my Full Drive 2, it put out a greasy "Waitin' on the Bus"/Billy G. kind of sound; warm and round and a little hairy. I bet if I'd run that setup through a 4x12 instead of a 1x12, I could have copped that feel perfectly. It was real chewy and fat, just .... wow. Along with a few beers, I noodled around with that tone for like two hours straight doing bad Joe Perry/Gary Moore/Paul Kossof/Santana impressions. It was just inspiring as shit.
For the price of two movie tickets, this things is amazing. Worth twice as much and with such a miniscule footprint on the pedalboard .... ? By Grabthar's Hammer, what a value.
This pedal seems almost the equal to the Carbon Copy I used to have, and much less expensive.
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