MAN this is a great sounding pedal. Awesome sweep on the tone and presence controls, good amounts of volume and even more gain. The only thing i didn't like was its low to lower mid gain levels, it sounds good, but the DLS holds that place in my heart. It also doesn't seem to clean up as well with the volume knob. One thing i immediately noticed was that this pedal has a LOT of gain on tap, way more than a dirty little secret. Very nice sounding pedal.
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:10 pm
by the isaac eaton
I already know where my knobs would be on this thing, tone 3, presc 5, gain 5.
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:12 pm
by Doog
Nice indeed, I like the sheer amount of nice sounding gain on tap.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:00 am
by SpaceFace
That is a really nice sounding pedal. I love all the videos this guy does as well, him and his daughter always seem to have a genuine good time doing them. Pretty refreshing what with the 982342345 youtube demos of really serious ones.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:37 am
by Bacchus
Looks great.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:16 am
by greenweenie
Filipino builders represent!
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:48 am
by Burgs
I really like it. I think this one is going on the board. Next to the Providence Stampede OD. Should be a fun weekend.
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:30 pm
by Haze
that SOV-2 is another great pedal. Sounds fantastic with the neck pickup, takes single coils better than most too i'd say.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:17 am
by Burgs
Haze wrote:that SOV-2 is another great pedal. Sounds fantastic with the neck pickup, takes single coils better than most too i'd say.
Yeah. It has a real 'something' going on; something different and way cool. I really like that one. I believe their DLY-83 is the duck's nuts, too.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:00 am
by greenweenie
Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:07 am
by Haze
Its a steal even at a $100, why don't i have this already
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:10 am
by Mike
greenweenie wrote:Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.
$99 is an incredible price for a handmade pedal that sounds this good. I find it hard to imagine he isn't making a loss at $60.
Incidentally the Marshall 6100 is my main amp, I think it always will be.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:51 am
by greenweenie
Mike wrote:
greenweenie wrote:Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.
$99 is an incredible price for a handmade pedal that sounds this good. I find it hard to imagine he isn't making a loss at $60.
Incidentally the Marshall 6100 is my main amp, I think it always will be.
Exchange rate. Parts here are cheap. But I must admit, it is a great sounding pedal. I had one before.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:04 am
by Mike
Parts aren't all that much cheaper. Cases, 3PDTs, Jacks, DC jacks, and finishing the case are all pretty much fixed expenses regardless of where you live. People also have to pay shipping when they order parts.
Parts are only half the story. You are not paying for parts alone, you're paying for his labour in putting them together and his design effort in tuning the pedal in the first place, which he seems to have done a fantastic job on.
$99 is £65. This is cheaper than a raft of mass produced dirt pedals from Boss for example. Pedals that don't have half the versatility this thing does.
Incidentally, this is the demo I made of my 6100
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and it back to back with my JCM800
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:35 pm
by greenweenie
Mike wrote:Parts aren't all that much cheaper. Cases, 3PDTs, Jacks, DC jacks, and finishing the case are all pretty much fixed expenses regardless of where you live. People also have to pay shipping when they order parts.
Parts are only half the story. You are not paying for parts alone, you're paying for his labour in putting them together and his design effort in tuning the pedal in the first place, which he seems to have done a fantastic job on.
$99 is £65. This is cheaper than a raft of mass produced dirt pedals from Boss for example. Pedals that don't have half the versatility this thing does.
Agreed.
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 11:00 am
by Mike
Amusingly this pedal which had everyone including me fooled got reverse engineered and turned out to be a Crunch Box which the presence control on the outside, it even uses PCB artwork ripped off a decent bloke who makes projects for DIYers (not commercial pedals).
It has nothing in common with the 6100 in terms of circuit topology (it's not an amp emulation with FETs in place of tubes like the OLC/Catalinbread etc al designs), so basically that's just marketing hype unfortunately. A bit of a shame really.
Still sounds good.
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:39 pm
by Haze
Mike wrote:
Still sounds good.
its there, for sure. I still love the crunch box but the presence control makes things sweeter
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:08 pm
by Mike
The MI Audio Crunch Box has a presence control, it's just inside the pedal.
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 5:07 pm
by Haze
i suppose i've only heard it wth the factory set presence control its a great sounding pedal all around, the presence control really opens up a of sounds that i haven't heard and makes me appreciate the circuit a bit more
Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:58 pm
by dots
Mike wrote:
greenweenie wrote:Wait, I read the Youtube description. $99.99? Locally he sells them for around $60-70.
$99 is an incredible price for a handmade pedal that sounds this good. I find it hard to imagine he isn't making a loss at $60.
Incidentally the Marshall 6100 is my main amp, I think it always will be.
does the pedal do it real justice? i'm always curious about a pedal that claims to ape a tube amp reliably, and you're our resident 6100 guy.
