Pedal builders REACT to this guy finally cracking the Spirit In The Sky fuzz

[andare]

Sounds dangerously close but I think it's too gainy.

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Here's the OG

What do you guys think?

 

[Nostradoomus]

Too much reverb

 

[pricklyrobot]

The clone of Norman Greenbaum in the video is pretty impressive. Does this guy walk around like that all the time?
Just hope he doesn’t pull an Al Jolson on a Hendrix-themed pedal…

Pedal sounds decent.

 

[Coda]

Sounds pretty good. I’d build in on vero, prolly…

 

[jwin615]

This is the most riff specific pedal since the fortin 33.
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[Mentaltossflycoon]

I might be picking nits here but the higher the note the less it sounds like the original. The low notes do the thing tho, respect.

 

[Aentons]

Need

 

[jcpst]

I don’t get it. People weren’t able to reproduce that fart sound until now?

 

[ICTRock]

I don’t get it. People weren’t able to reproduce that fart sound until now?

it's one of those mystery pieces of equipment that people get weird about ... I'm one of those people. I want to know the special recipe.

 

[Coda]

it's one of those mystery pieces of equipment that people get weird about ... I'm one of those people. I want to know the special recipe.

Nutmeg, probably…

 

[spi]

So is it going to come with knobs or nah?

 

[Scruffie]

Pedal builders hate this one trick where Robert traces their pedal and it's just a tweaked existing circuit.

 

[ICTRock]

I can fully accept that I don't spend the time doing it myself that I should. it's probably a bosstone

 

[Harry Klippton]

I think this should be on the wishlist

 

[andare]

No one has been able to reproduce the exact fart.
The original circuit built in Greenbaum's Telecaster. I'm not clear if the guitar is still around but apparently Greenbaum himself is unable to reproduce the tone. It might've had a starved battery at the time.

This is the product page for thsi reissue https://www.circleelectric.co/shop/p/spirit-in-the-sky-fuzz-pre-order-50-deposit

 

[Coda]

I’m a bit skeptical after digging a bit…

the pedal with have 3 knobs and one switch. So that the proper spirit in the sky style fart can be dialed in on more than just a telecaster.

This is a paragraph from the product page. Kinda reads like an African Prince wrote it. It is also written in the future tense, leading me to believe that the pedal doesn’t exist and is just a theory. I’m sure once people pay up front they’ll start making pedals…in Mali…

 

[andare]

Could just be a bias setting for the fart. Nothing Nigerian about it. The pedals are supposed to ship in a few months. I beleve this vendor already has other products and has been aorund for a while.

 

[jwin615]

It was in his guitar? Yeah. It's a Boss Tone. There were versions of the boss tone in some pedal steels. Some tech probably ripped one from one and put it in his tele. boss tone with a dieing battery=KMA fuzzly bear.
Plus, Greenbaum moved to LA in 65 and Jordan Electronics was just down the road in Pasadena.

 

[tegendemuur]

Jordan BossTone

Many associate this pedal with the fuzz tone for "Spirit in the Sky" by Prodigal Son, though I'm fairly sure that theory has been debunked. ...

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[Coda]

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Jordan BossTone

Many associate this pedal with the fuzz tone for "Spirit in the Sky" by Prodigal Son, though I'm fairly sure that theory has been debunked. ...

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I believe this is true if you are talking about the standard version. But I believe the earlier version, which were installed inside pedal steel guitars, utilized Ge. These circuits are a bit smoother, and fart out easier than the normal version…