finebyfine
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It's mind bogglingly clean and consistent! Truly the benchmark of octave ups.
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PedalBuilder
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That sounds very intriguing. Do you happen to know what the circuit is based off of?
Robert
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finebyfine
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Joe Gore has said its similar topography to the Green Ringer and Scrambler. I imagine that there’s a ton of gain and some filtering before the octave stage and maybe some post filtering to restore the signal closer to the input, but that’s just a shot in the dark.
finebyfine
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I can send you mine to trace if you want
andare
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There is almost too much gain if you ask me. I love the clean octave for melodies but chords sound like a metal guitar, and the pedal only tolerates a clean amp IME.
An octave pedal I heard in demos that sounds really musical and usable for chords is the Augustus by Dusky Electronics. Really lovely. I plan to ourchase one when I can.
Here's a beautiful demo by Eric Haugen
almondcity
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Passinwind
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Doing a fairly deep dive on picks for my acoustic guitar, just Dunlop and Graphtech for this round:
jessenator
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Man, those Tortex picks are a core memory. When Dad picked up his first since his Jaguar back in the '60s, his strat got played with those for years.
Passinwind
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Oddly enough, I've never used any of those models much at all with my electric guitars. And so far I like all of them with my Breedlove Concert size acoustic except the Graphtech Tusc 1mm Deep model, which is exactly not what I think of when I hear "deep." Go figure ! But it might be the bomb with a boomy dread, so off to my friend's bluegrass jam space it'll go, probably.
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vigilante398
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A friend introduced me to Tusq picks a while back and their "warm" 0.88mm has become my go-to pick for both acoustic and electric, love those things.
Passinwind
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That's the other Tusc pick in the picture, it's definitely a contender. I generally use Dava picks for electric but I could see settling on one thing for both acoustic and electric. The Breedlove sounds great fingerpicked too, but not so much at a busy bluegrass-ish jam.
Cabintech
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Passinwind
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I already have a couple here and they're great for my electric, but too thin for flatpicking acoustic, which is my current focus.
Still owe you an LFO schematic and another test pedal build with the second DBBD chip you sent me; the weather is finally nice enough to allow opening up my shop a lot more now and I will do something with proper graphics and hopefully a more intuitive layout ASAP.
MichaelW
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Bump it up to 1.2mm and I'd be using my CabinTech picks all day long!
Cabintech
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Yeah, yeah I keep hearing they are too thin for most folks. Guess I'll bump it up for our next batch (and save a bunch of these thin ones because *I* like them!).
Feral Feline
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Graphtech. Once played, I've always preferred Graphtech. Turned a guitarist friend onto them, that's all he'll play now.
Since I'm just a hack, I'll play whatever's at hand, but prefer Graphtech. Too bad they wear out so quickly!
When you drop a Tusq pick, on any hard surface, it sounds musical. Can't say the same for any other pick dropped on any surface.
JohnnyCreepy
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Feral Feline
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Metal picks are okay, admittedly haven't played them a lot, but a few times — still prefer Graphtech Tusq.
UtilityBeltFX
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I <3 thin picks!
