Singing Tree LE, Trumpet Fuzz, & friends...

[jbf3]

Apologies ahead of time for video quality—I over-compressed as learning to use a new camera (and getting video off of it in Windows! Aargh...Camera won't talk to my Mac). Got the Singing Tree and Trumpet Fuzz the other day (thanks again, Eric, for sending them out together!), and happened to have also just rec'd the Dwarfcraft Defiance a few days earlier (turns out not to do much w/Trumpet Fuzz beyond subtle timbral stuff at some settings; it's wild with the VFM though). I've only had the VFM a week or so, and figured I'd throw it in the mix.

Equipment: Gtr is a mid-1960s Silvertone "Shadow" and the amp is Songworks Lil Lanilei. Tuned to some sort of open tuning related to an open D (can't recall exact derivation).

I've got another vid that adds the new Mellowtone Hi 5 to the chain, and will try to get it up soon as you can hear the comparison between it and the Singing Tree!
Here's that other video, with a Party Favor Hi-5 in the mix...someone had posted a request way back for a demo of it:

[hazelwould]

That Trumpet sounds LURVLYYYY!!!!!

As do the others.

[jbf3]

Yes, the Trumpet Fuzz is fantastic...I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a trashy-yet-tight octave fuzz. It's more usable in a wider range of settings than the Catalinbread Ottava Magus (which I really like), and does nice things with an OD pushing it—gets a rounder sound, but stays nasty.
I've been playing with it a lot since doing the video, and am happy to have grabbed one.

[jbf3]

bump for added video...

[Nychthemeron]

That Hi-Five sounds really nice and clear! Must do well when thrown in with all that fuzzy goodness.

[letsgocoyote]

Thanks for the vids!


I really want to get a nice New Hi Five clip or video together because it is my favorite new pedal, just does the really dynamic mild overdrive thing quite well.

[sevenSHARPnine]

I really want to get a nice New Hi Five clip or video together because it is my favorite new pedal, just does the really dynamic mild overdrive thing quite well.

Can't wait! I've been wanting to hear the new Hi Five for a while now

[01010111]

That new high five really does do a good mild overdrive. Is it the same as the circuit as what's in the cc/dc? When I compared the two I couldn't get the same type of clipping from the old high five, it would clip mildly if you didn't play very hard then if you tried open tunings or full chords it would clip hard and completely mangle you're tone with square wave goodness. The cc/dc didn't do this, the clipping was a lot smoother and the harder you played the more fuzzy goodness you'd get without losing tonal definition.

That first video gave me huge gas for that trumpet fuzz

jbf3 you wouldn't happen to be in cage the elephant? 'cause that opening riff on the first video sounded a lot like their single.

[letsgocoyote]

The original Hi Five or Hi Five Plus were/are/is a single transistor design.

The CC/DC is essentially two individually footswitchable Hi Five circuits at fixed volume and gain settings, one clean and one dirty (roughly minimum gain and maximum gain on a hi five plus).

Now, the difference with the New Hi Five versus the old Hi Five, is it is actually two Hi Fives which have both been rebiased to be just clean running into each other. But since the first transistor pushes the second transistor, you do get a little overdrive going. So in that sense its sort of similar to running both sides of a CC DC at once, except the New Hi Five is biased cleaner on both stages, whereas the CC/DC is biased to already be overdriving on the DC half, so that one will get more distortion.
Anyhow, I do think thye have some similar tonality and touch response, jsut the New Hi Five is lower gain.

I really feel like you can just leave the New Hi Five on and play harder and softer, which is weird to me because thats something I never really got before and felt was like for TGP people.

[Blurillaz]

I can haz dibs?


Preemptive post-

[metalmariachi]

So in that sense its sort of similar to running both sides of a CC DC at once, except the New Hi Five is biased cleaner on both stages, whereas the CC/DC is biased to already be overdriving on the DC half, so that one will get more distortion.

So essentially I could add a tiny hidden bias trim pot in a HI Five and create a CC/DC.
Then people would be asking “how come mine won’t do that?”

MM

[letsgocoyote]

you could effectively change three resistors in the new hi five and it would be like a cc/dc with both channels always on

[CBGB]

The Singing Tree LE rocks. Simple as.

[Wizard]

The Singing Tree LE rocks. Simple as.

I second this.. super versatile.