by Justinm1789 » Wed Jul 22, 2015 5:18 pm
Just received mine today. Audio coming soon, and I'll put up youtube demo at some point.
Initial impression: I like it a lot! It's staying on my board. It plays like a 50/50 muff/superfuzz hybrid, but easier to tame than a superfuzz, with quite a bit more transparency, and much less of the knifey frequencies normally found in superfuzzes and other scooped mid fuzzes of that nature. Stacks really well with my single op-amp DS-1 before it. Really practical-sounding. The bottom end on the scooped mode is tight enough to be percussive with lower frets and palm mutes in a really cool way. The non-scooped mode isn't as nasally/gutteral as a typical super/hyper fuzz's mode 1, and I could see it replacing my Ram's Head clone in a pinch.
Good for doom, stoner, sludge,rock,psych,industrial etc. If you need to get a more aggressive doom sound, it plays well with other dist/fuzz/OD. I was able to get surprisingly close to the Electric Wizard Dopethrone-era scooped tone (Hyper Fuzz mode II) by pairing this with my distortion and graphic EQ.
More details coming as I play around with it more and figure it out. Like I said, audio/video coming when I have the time.