With a lot of help from the patient Chuck I have finally got this pedal where I want it. It started out as just as exercise in "I wonder what this will sound like", morphed into "hey this sounds aright!" and ended up being almost the perfect overdrive for a Gretsch.
I got into amp building and then pedal building to get "the sound in my head", which was a big fat twangy, dirty sound; clear and single-coil-like on the bass strings but fat and vocal on the trebles. It was a sound I have always wanted but never got 100% despite trying lots of things. Now, with a Gretsch Duo Jet or 6120 with Filter'trons, my home-made map, some slap-back delay and this pedal I have got closer than ever to my holy grail.
But it does more than that. My Les Paul loves it too. It's not as complex a sound as the G I posted a layout for here. It's actually quite a simple sound and you might notice a TS basis under it. But it has excellent punch, a lot of touch responsiveness and some of the best low string definition I have ever heard in an overdrive pedal. It's all come about almost by accident and I love the sound it has. And it has come a looong way from being a LGW!
Thanks Chuck!!
I got into amp building and then pedal building to get "the sound in my head", which was a big fat twangy, dirty sound; clear and single-coil-like on the bass strings but fat and vocal on the trebles. It was a sound I have always wanted but never got 100% despite trying lots of things. Now, with a Gretsch Duo Jet or 6120 with Filter'trons, my home-made map, some slap-back delay and this pedal I have got closer than ever to my holy grail.
But it does more than that. My Les Paul loves it too. It's not as complex a sound as the G I posted a layout for here. It's actually quite a simple sound and you might notice a TS basis under it. But it has excellent punch, a lot of touch responsiveness and some of the best low string definition I have ever heard in an overdrive pedal. It's all come about almost by accident and I love the sound it has. And it has come a looong way from being a LGW!
Thanks Chuck!!