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That is a well known and intentional feature of the Tube Screamer. As you add more distortion you will typically want to reduce the amount of low end or things get too flubby and loose. Think of it this way.. the Tube Screamer is not really meant to CUT low end in practice. It is supposed to increase the higher frequencies at a disproportionate level. A loud distorted amp is going to sound farty if you slam it with a bunch of low end. If you slam it with higher frequencies, you get the distortion where you want it but keep the low end at a level your amp can still manage Personally I’m not a huge fan of the TS or most of its countless derivatives but huge bass is rarely desired in distortion or overdrive

Ye olde chatoyance

I don’t have a pic handy but one of the coolest pedals that I’ve gotten in the past few years is the DOD Rubberneck Delay. The name is kinda silly and it costs $349 now but when I got it DOD was blowing out their stock and I want to say it was like $150 or something. This pedal is such a sleeper.. I’ve never heard anybody really talk about it but it’s amazing. It’s a true BBD analog delay but they stacked several chips so you get really long max delay time for an analog delay. it has tap tempo with subdivisions, a tone control which affects just the echoes (AMAZING simple feature), stereo outs, and it has an effects loop. So I like to run a micropog in the loop and you get these magic wand sounds where each repeat goes another octave up to infinity. I LOVE that pedal and highly highly recommend it to anyone. The modulation is awesome and all the features just work effortlessly. It sounds fantastic

AKG C414 and Beyerdynamic M160?

That’s a hammer tone finish. You can get it in aerosol cans or brush it on. He was talking about the Pep Box finish though

The Meatball is something that kinda took me by surprise. An envelope filter is a cool effect but it seems like a bit of a one trick pony. Not with the Meatball. The addition of the fx loop allows infinite combinations with other effects and practically turns your guitar into a controller to a modular synth On the technical side you have to appreciate the way Mutron was using photocells in their envelope filters and phasers. It’s so cool (the meatball is a mutron envelope filter with a bunch of modifications)

Well **** maybe there is bone on that thing. That’s really surprising and I don’t think it was ever standard on the original Gibson mode. Maybe they meant bone colored and it was kinda lost in translation Peru is such an amazing place. What kind of music are you playing?

Zappa is the king of nasal guitar sounds though and he literally had a huge nose

**** that didn’t even feel good to get off my chest. I hate Fulltone but he’s just a net negative on the whole industry. Whining about his BS just makes you feel and look bad. Anyway Phil you did a great job on your DIY builds and you have EXCELLENT taste in general. Your Lovetone stuff is especially nice. I built a copy of the Meatball and Cheese Source and they’re both incredible. The meatball is easily the best analog envelope filter ever made

I don’t know anything about his personal opinions or anything like that, I just hate what he does with his pedals. The whole thing with the 69 and Soul Bender was that they were made with the mythical NKT275. If you don’t know, the Newmarket NKT275 was the transistor model used in the first version of the Fuzz Face, made popular by Jimi Hendrix. Germanium transistors were made obsolete by silicon transistors in the 60s-70s so Newmarket stopped producing the NKT275 long ago. The remaining stocks of this transistor have all been bought up long ago and the modicum of scraps we have left have all been picked through several times. Back when repairing electronics was still a thing, a guy would open up a broken radio and see an NKT275 inside. If he comes to the conclusion that the transistor needs to be replaced, he goes to Radio Shack or Fry’s and looks for an NKT275. Silly boy, that hasn’t been available for over 50 years. No need to worry though, a modern manufacturer saw this (incredibly niche) business opportunity and decided to produce modern germanium transistors for use in repairing vintage electronics. Their factory produces a huge batch of transistors which are very inconsistent. If a batch of transistors comes out with specs that are close enough to the specs published on the datasheet of a common obsolete part number, they are labeled with that part number to be used as replacements So we have newly manufactured transistors marked NKT275 which are not affiliated with the actual Newmarket NKT275 in any way. They didn’t use any original manufacturing equipment or anything like that, it is completely unrelated to the original part Enter Fulltone. He reads the room and sees that there is a ton of hype surrounding the NKT275 but an extreme lack of knowledge or even a desire to understand. He can say anything he wants knowing that nobody will question him. I feel like if you’ve made it this far through my long winded post you can pretty much connect the dots from here. Guy prints OC75 on the front of the box of his rangemaster clone, uses modern remake of OC75 which is in no way related to a real OC75. There are countless superior NOS options available for less money but Fulltone intentionally confuses their customers by using a modern remake of a hyped part # This type of marketing really hurts the honest guys and puts the lowest common denominator up on a pedestal. When I see the Fulltone ranger I see something altogether embarrassing. Your mileage may vary The tape echoes on the other hand required extensive R&D and they almost undersold them in marketing which is kinda baffling but also makes sense. They were probably losing money on the tape echoes but raking it in on the nonsense basically in a nutshell if you want to buy a Neumann u47 but you think Warm Audio can stamp VF14M on any tube and sell it to you for $400 then Fulltone is your guy

Wow.. nice! Really doesn’t look banged up at all in the pics

I guess I feel a certain way because I mostly know you presented as the Frank Zappa and Steve Howe and Beatles guy but admittedly there’s a lot of acoustic in there even with just those 3 mentions

Dude wtf how do you play music and not miss the stretchy electric stuff?

Yeah that mesa is definitely the best out of the 3 you mentioned but that can’t be the end of your amp quest

Loud and useless volume control is one thing. Good amp is different. I know you’re an expert of electronics. I really would love for you to build a nice amp from scratch and I would make and ship you a really nice cabinet for free if you want to do that

Those amps had a disgusting op amp driven reverb and distortion. The horror. But they actually do sound like **** and they have the worst volume control of all time. People say they take pedals well… They’re harsh and sharp with the hot rods and tiny and boxy with the blues jrs. Don’t care what anyone says

I respectfully disagree. Those particular amps only did one thing decently. The amps that Fender actually designed were incredible for everything

I know those are all lauded on the internet but I pretty much hate em except the Mesa coincidentally. I only have guitar center experience on that one though. the blues jr and hot rods are both fakers and you can just see it on the schematics honestly but in practice I dislike them

Too much negative feedback. Imagine that

That’s kinda sad because I feel like with a better amp you could have more fun. Blues Jrs and Hot Rods suck no matter what the internet says…

I love fender and I should rep him more since I grew up right around him but I mostly love his amps and Gibson guitars

Are you playing only acoustic by intention or by circumstance? I’ve been pretty much acoustic only for the past 4 or 5 years by circumstance really love electric though and wanna get more back into it

Wild in the Streets- Circle Jerks

I’m trying so hard not to make disparaging remarks about Fulltone but I just can’t seem to contain it. Fulltone SUCKS I freakin hate all their **** except the tape echoes

Crimson and clover over and over by the guys