Members Electric I Posted April 21, 2006 Members Share Posted April 21, 2006 This Sample at Tech 21's site displays the pedal as having an infinite sustain quality. At will, no less. Anyone here have/heard one of these? Does it operate as advertised? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric I Posted April 26, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 Nada ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members papa taco Posted April 26, 2006 Members Share Posted April 26, 2006 I'm holding out for the Tech 21 Jewish-American Princess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric I Posted April 28, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Just when I thought I had it narrowed down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PurpleStrat Posted April 28, 2006 Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dangerous dan Posted April 28, 2006 Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 I've tried it an its pretty good but in that price ball park it just didn't cut it (IMO) with pedals like the Crowther Bluesberry or T-rex Alberta. I'm still looking for the perfect overdrive after several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jaymeister Posted April 28, 2006 Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Been awhile since I listened to that clip, and I recall that it didn't really do it for me for some reason...but Randy Bachman is a great underrated clasic rock guitarist with Jazz roots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric I Posted April 28, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Originally posted by dangerous dan I'm still looking for the perfect overdrive after several years. Try the Barber Burn Unit if you already haven't. Got one & it's cat's ass. I'm just looking for more flavors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Electric I Posted April 28, 2006 Author Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Originally posted by Jaymeister .but Randy Bachman is a great underrated clasic rock guitarist with Jazz roots You got that right. I know what you're sayin' about the pedal, which is why I'm now gonna wait to see what the Double Drive 3X is all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GTM Posted April 28, 2006 Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 I just bough the AW pedal this week. Yep, the pedal sounds just like the clips. Bear in mind that guy on the clip is doing a lot of cool harmonics. I think it's pretty reasonably priced compared to the "boutique" pedals. In addition it does the traditional overdrive & clean boost very nicely, nice and trasparent. I like the noise gate, I can crank the hell out of it and it's dead quiet until I hit the first note. I have a bunch of Tech 21 gear, Comptorion, XXL, Doubledrive, Trademark 10, original Sansamp. All quality stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members badmuddy Posted April 28, 2006 Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Originally posted by papa taco I'm holding out for the Tech 21 Jewish-American Princess. that's too funny! speakin' of jap's, have you ever SEEN the receptionist at tech21??? OHMIFUKKINGAWD!!! she is one MAJOR fukkin' SPUNK!!! OUCH!!! ml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members papa taco Posted April 28, 2006 Members Share Posted April 28, 2006 Originally posted by badmuddy that's too funny! speakin' of jap's, have you ever SEEN the receptionist at tech21??? OHMIFUKKINGAWD!!! she is one MAJOR fukkin' SPUNK!!! OUCH!!! ml pic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wood Chuck Posted April 29, 2006 Members Share Posted April 29, 2006 the american woman tech 21 is hands downthe {censored}tiest pedal, i ever played............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Friendly Ranger Posted April 29, 2006 Members Share Posted April 29, 2006 I tried it when it first came out and it was okay. It's mostly a one trick pony although I got a decent overdrive tone out of it at a lower drive level. I don't remember all the pros and cons but in the end I guess it just didn't inspire me enough to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted August 23, 2006 Members Share Posted August 23, 2006 All things considered I get some pretty cool sounds with an American Woman plugged into my Tone King Meteor II. It works for me. The Meteor II has some really good tones in it without the use of any external effects units. But the American Woman is a nice contrast to the tones I usually get out of the Tone King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fatbackribs Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 I've heard the AM refered to as "Fripp in a can" by an early Crimson nut I know. I don't have one myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wood Chuck Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by Electric I Nada ??? it sucks ass! really! don't buy one, you will flip it and lose coin trust me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amanonfire Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 just get a herzog and call it a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by ice house it sucks ass! really! don't buy one, you will flip it and lose coin trust me. Mine doesn't suck ass. And I don't really plan on flipping it. Though at the price I got it for I probably would at least break even. But that thing has some sounds in it that like. And I have some pretty good taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrmax Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 The American Woman pedal is the only thing that I have ever returned to Musician's Friend. Who in their right mind wants to sound like that? ONE TRICK CRIPPLED PONY! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Devi Ever Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 Originally posted by amanonfire just get a herzog and call it a day. "Gar and I developed this unit together back in '65-'66. Growing up playing violin, I loved the sustain, especially of a viola or cello. So early on in mid '60's, I found out that by plugging a small amplifier into a bigger amplifier, I could get this sound. Now I was taking the power out (which normally would go to the speaker) and plug it into the input of another amp. The result, for a few short minutes was a cool, great new, sustained sound. Gar Gillies had a tv/radio repair shop, was a cool musician, and I wasn't embarrassed to take in my amps, which were literally burned by the power misuse, fried, to say the least. Gar asked what the heck I was doing, and when I told him, he said, you're insane to do this, its very dangerous. So he offered to help me do it a safer and less destructive way. So Gar proceeded to build me a tube pre-amp, which when put into another amp, got me the desired sound. But not really, the sound was a little weird in a Fender amp which was all that was around, so Gar decided to get parts from Heathkit and build an amplifier to go with the unit. We were looking for a name, and at the time I was reading a book with HERZOG written across the cover. Hence the name, so we could stop referring to the unit as the "noise thing". I used to go to his shop on Osborne Ave late at night after gigs, and stay till the wee hours of the morning, making the most incredible Moose and Ox bellowing sounds, distortion/blotto screeching sounds that would make us laugh. But once it was smoothed out, it was smooth. So that became my lead guitar solo sound. It was first featured on The Guess Who CBC weekly show, Let's Go and Music Hop in 1967-68 but really came to the forefront as the "sound" of "No Time", "American Woman" and many other sounds on the Guess Who albums, "Wheatfield Soul", "Canned Wheat", and "American Woman". I continued using it later on "Brave Belt I and II", and the on Bachman Turner Overdrive albums. That's about the story. There is still no unit that sounds like it today. One that comes close is the SansAmp rackmount which has an actual setting called "American Woman". It's close. John Johnson of Johnson Amps, Digitech and DOD, pedals and amps, told me that as a kid, he tried to make his own pedal to get the "American Woman" guitar sound and couldn't get it. However, the pedals he did make in trying to get that sound have gone on to sell hundreds of thousands for Digitech and DOD, but none got the American Woman sound. Cheers, Randy Bachman" http://www.garnetamps.com/herzog.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FLYING V 83 Posted August 24, 2006 Members Share Posted August 24, 2006 When Randy was 9 years old, his parents took him to a dinner theater where Les Paul & Mary Ford were playing.He was standing near the kitchen when Les came out with his guitar, and asked him to hold it while he used the bathroom. That was when he decided he wanted to be a guitar player.True story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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