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Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:51 amby goroth
Goose it with a TS. TS>Hotcake is one of my favourite distortion sounds.
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Jul 12, 2018 8:04 amby frigid midget
goroth wrote:Goose it with a TS. TS>Hotcake is one of my favourite distortion sounds.
I've got a decent self build TS808 laying around, it's one of the only peds I didn't try with the hotcake. Thanks for the tip. I should have someone build me a ts+hotcake combo pedal though
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Jul 12, 2018 8:30 amby spacelordmother
frigid midget wrote:I've got a decent self build TS808 laying around, it's one of the only peds I didn't try with the hotcake.
Please report back.
frigid midget wrote:I should have someone build me a ts+hotcake combo pedal though
Please report back.
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:41 pmby goroth
Go nuts on the town control too - max volume, max tone and minimal drive on the TS. 600km from my board atm but I think that’s how I set it up.
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Fri Jul 13, 2018 4:19 pmby Pete
I am curious to hear the reports on the hotcake/TS combo
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:13 pmby MechaGodzilla
goroth wrote:Go nuts on the town control too - max volume, max tone and minimal drive on the TS. 600km from my board atm but I think that’s how I set it up.
That's the only way they sound good imo but it's a bloody good sound
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Fri Jul 13, 2018 6:27 pmby goroth
Yeah, you know it MG!
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:34 pmby taco satori
I vaguely remembered reading somewhere that the Xotic RC Boost is similar to a Tubescreamer, with a major exception being the RC having less in the way of clipping diodes. Plowing an RC, set for a significant bass cut and treble boost, into a Hotcake sounded pretty decent!
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Tue Aug 07, 2018 3:44 amby goroth
Hotcake doesn't have any clipping diodes, it is a straight op-amp overdrive.
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:10 amby Christophe
To my ears, my RC booster doesn’t sound like a tubescreamer at all... They differ a lot to me.
But what would your less-muddy-hotcake-when-cranked sound like? Hard to imagine... maybe a Marshall type of pedal? The xotic sl drive could do the trick...
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:31 amby goroth
The Hotcake doesn't cut very much bass going into the opamp. On lower gain settings you get a nice crumbly breakup, but on higher gain settings it woofs out. Put a treble booster, or a TS or anything that cuts bass in front of it and it will clean it up. It's better IMO to goose it with a pedal because you get the big round overdrive sound with the bass in tact, then when you want more gain you get more definition as well. Win-win.
Re: A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?
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Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:56 amby MechaGodzilla
goroth wrote:The Hotcake doesn't cut very much bass going into the opamp. On lower gain settings you get a nice crumbly breakup, but on higher gain settings it woofs out. Put a treble booster, or a TS or anything that cuts bass in front of it and it will clean it up. It's better IMO to goose it with a pedal because you get the big round overdrive sound with the bass in tact, then when you want more gain you get more definition as well. Win-win.
gonna have to try that with my overdrive/power boost clones