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The Elements has arrived all safe and sound. What a great post Christmas present to enjoy for a few days

I probably won't have time to play through it until tomorrow, but I will definitely post with my impressions. And maybe even some sloppy clips if the mood strikes!

Okay - thoughts on The Elements after spending a bit of time with it yesterday afternoon. Holy. Balls.

This thing blew all expectations completely out of the water. It is amazing. I originally got on the list because I wanted to try out it's boosting capabilities since I'm an amp dirt person...plus I want to try out all of Ryan's pedals.

I liked it the most as a high gain brootz machine with the clipping in the middle, the bass toggle in the top position, and the mid toggle in the bottom position. I also found a really useful fuzz setting that was really, really close to how I have my Musket set up. Mostly I was just amazed at the sheer versatility of this thing.

It can sound about like my amp, about like my amp being boosted, like my Musket, and I can use it as a boost to cop the same tones that my LTD and Mastortion get me when boosting.

If I was in the market for an all around dirt pedal - this would be it. I could seriously get by with like 3 Elements and a clean amp for 90% of my dirt needs. And I never thought I would/could be a clean amp/pedal dirt person.

I will spend another day or so with it and try and have it off to the next person by Saturday

The Elements will legitimize a clean amp setup like no other distortion pedal I've ever encountered!

Awesome, Trey! I was hoping you were gonna like it! I'm glad you liked it as a clean amp kinda pedal, that's my favourite way to set up a rig and I guess how I intend the Elements and Frazz to be used. I like that you didn't think you'd ever like that setup but maybe now you do, I used to be the same way.

*high five Shannon!*

Ryan wrote:Haha yeah, you could've been first in line! *smile* (don't worry, we'll come up with a plan for you to try one)

Awesome i appreciated it!

Ryan wrote:Awesome, Trey! I was hoping you were gonna like it! I'm glad you liked it as a clean amp kinda pedal, that's my favourite way to set up a rig and I guess how I intend the Elements and Frazz to be used. I like that you didn't think you'd ever like that setup but maybe now you do, I used to be the same way.

*high five Shannon!*

Indeed. You've made a great dirt box

In fact, I have been eyeing a Bassman for sale locally that I may pick up and run with assorted flavors of dirt - mostly fuzz of course, but the Elements would surely have a place on that board.

Yeah! A Bassman and dirt pedals owns, that's a killer setup!

Sorry I still don't have the mini-RRR out yet to Tuffbud, I will soon!

Hahaha, been doing some lurking around the scum and villainy that is HCFX???

haha yeah I saw that Charlie is getting impatient! *smile* Thanks for the love over there, seems like the Elements is being well received and it's really nice to read.

The hype is well deserved and I will be yelling about it as loudly as possible whenever I have the chance. Even a lot of the guys in the Doom Room (giant thread that several of us hang out in) really dig it for their variety of heavy music.

I love hearing that.. I'm always going for counter-culture guitar tones with the Elements and Frazz. I love the really unique guitar tones that most heavy bands have, that stuff is always my inspiration.

Shit's about to get periodic cause looks like the Elements has come to my door!

So whatcha think Jeremy? Totally elemental?

Ryan wrote:So whatcha think Jeremy? Totally elemental?

Uh oh, now he's an eleMENTAL patient.

Well there's some reaction going on there for sure, but I still want to experiment around some more to get the full results. I might end up going mad from the versatility though.

Seriously, this thing is super rad. Hope the next one on the list will enjoy it just as much!