bluesguitar65 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Found this video very intersting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpTv2jAree8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Yup. As you say, very interesting. There's so much rubbish perpetrated about so many aspects of 'Vintage Tone' I suppose it should come as no surprise to discover the world of FX pedals isn't immune. I would have loved him to have broadcast the names of the websites that were posting all the myths and misinformation about the various chips on show. As well as the actual talk itself I was also interested in the reaction of the audience. Most of them seemed less than enthusiastic that all the talk about different chips was shown to be smoke-and-mirrors. The most amusing bit (IMHO) was when one person - and one person only - thought they could detect a big difference in tone between the pedals. After raising his hand to indicate his awareness of this change in tone he rounded it off perfectly by stating 'I'm a drummer.' Classic. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinh Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 God I love this! Someone should do the same thing with expensive tone capcitors, exotic NOS tubes, matt vs gloss finishing , cloth covered wire, old pots, and all the other "improved tone" snake oil that has become so prevelent. Ever since the day the results of the double blind test of talented violinists playing real and reproduction stradivarius violins came out ( the results were, when deprived of the visual and contextual clues as to which was which, the majority of players picked a reproduction as the real thing) I've wished someone would do the same sort of tests with guitars. This is the closest thing I've seen yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Cool video! The comparison of some op-amps is well documented here! I would argue that there is more to quality in any one devise then the op-amp but some good discussion here non the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 This reminds of people that think two guitars of the same model are different in brightness only because of the wood, not realizing that pots have a tolerance of +/-5% to 10% and similar for capacitors and pickups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FenderGuy1 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 My Commodore 64 sounds better than your guitar and it has a SID chip! (sarcasm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Try getting two women. Same height, size, hair colour, etc. Big difference. Yet they have the same components. It proves that components differ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Try getting two women. Same height, size, hair colour, etc. Big difference. Yet they have the same components. It proves that components differ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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