llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:58 am I haven’t read the manual or anything, but I played it a bunch last night with an EGC guitar with flatwounds and a 15 watt 50s Gibson.

To me, it’s closest in feel to a Lovetone Ringstinger I had for a while before I had to sell when prices got too high. There’s no ring mod on the Shields Blender obv, but it’s a very interactive pedal that does all sorts of crazy shit, and the fuzz is such that it feels like you can tune it with the tone knob. It’s not subtle, and in some ways the pedal obliterates the relationship between the guitar and the amp. Dialing in clean sounds is cool, but you have to goose the volume when you do that to make it sound good. The sag control kind of makes the pedal, but I couldn’t imagine any one section of this pedal without the others. The expansion switch kind of goes into a rhythm/lead sort of change, but the eq differences can be a little extreme.

If I have one complaint, it’s that I wish the fuzz had a wider range down as you’re kind of starting on 10. If I had two complaints, the octave down switch really needs a master volume, but I understand why its not there - it’s the You Made Me Realise switch.

All the gold rush stuff surrounding it seems to happen any time Kevin Shields has done anything post-2000s, so I’m not really going to get into it in this post. It’s a very cool pedal.

Garth wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:01 am Also...since you're going inside the unit anyway to trace the schematic for us, did you check for a flash drive?

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:17 am
The photo has a numbering of 21/100, but it's my understanding that they made 700 of these things.

So, is it that the song on the flash drive is #21 out of 100 hidden songs, or that only 100 of these 700 pedals have the flash drive in there?

Also, I like that it's only one screw to take the back off and replace the battery.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 8:58 am All the gold rush stuff surrounding it seems to happen any time Kevin Shields has done anything post-2000s, so I’m not really going to get into it in this post.

tallchris wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 6:55 pm

eephus wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 4:32 pm I've gotten two of the Origin Effects all-analog preamp pedals recently.

I got the Super Vintage fake SVT to run into this little solid state bass head that I have, and I think it sounds pretty swell. It captures both the upper-end "ting" and the midrange grunt of the Ampeg tone stack, which are the first two things to go away when I try to use a SS amplifier.

It's good enough that I decided to get the Deluxe 61 and try it on guitar/baritone. It's also quite good--imbues things with the black panel Fender sound and crucially does about as good a job on the Fender tremolo as you could expect.

Their pedals are not cheap, but I like what I've heard from them so far.

Oh dang, that Black Panel one sounds really good based on the YouTube demos.

tallchris wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 1:31 pm as much as I love the Meatsmoke preamp pedal, it's freakin' huge, like I think it's actually bigger and heavier than the Quilter Bass Block.

Garth wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:01 am it'd be pretty dope to get a schematic of the innards & begin the clone wars. I'd certainly rather the good Dr got my money vs anyone else.

Also...since you're going inside the unit anyway to trace the schematic for us, did you check for a flash drive?