Nick wrote:So does it sound like the real perc? The albini vid was just spiteful propoganda after all?
i really don't know how albini managed to get the bp-1 to sound so bad.
from what little i've heard of the original HP...i don't think they sound the same...i do think that the added features to the bp-1 changed the way it responds. that said, i still like it a
lot. i didn't get a chance to spend a lot of time with it though, since my last working amp died while I was trying it out.
its a little darker than i was expecting, but sounds great stacked with the trebly memphis distortion. the harmonics really stand out and sustained notes have lots of movement.
with my cyclone i was tapping the trem springs on the back of the body and holding a chord and it was coming through fairly loudly with the bp-1.....i'd hit the body of the guitar with the side of my hand and get cymbal crash like sounds. lots of random weird stuff....but thats why i like it so much.