Members Fiery Furnace Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 Here's a little clip I did while I have my rig (and then some) at home after a big show last night. This clip features my Rickenbacker 4001, Guild Quantum amp, my keyboardist's Bassman, Avatar cabs, and a (Jazz Ad recommended) Guyatone TZ2 Fuzz pedal. I ran the Ric in stereo (sorry about the noise, I had to use poor quality cords cause all my good ones were mono!), with the bridge pickup going into the Guild, on the bottom, and into the Avatar 2x12, and the neck pickup going through the fuzz into the bassman and into the Avatar 2x10. It starts with the clean Guild tone, then the fuzzy tone alone, then the two together. Enjoy! (Don't mind the sloppy playing )
Members justinbass Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 Nice! The two together sounded great. How much was the pedal?
Members SpaceGhost Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 Nice! The two together sounded great. How much was the pedal? Not to step on toes but here's a place to grab one (with price): http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new_shop.cgi?config=&uid=Q1LqVQAA1193598455&uzc=&command=link--tz2
Members Fiery Furnace Posted October 28, 2007 Author Members Posted October 28, 2007 Thanks! That little fuzz pedal is quite cheap, I think only around $60 or so? It does sort of take over your tone when used alone, it's great in a biamp setting but it's kind of a pain to lug all that gear around Plus it doesn't really work in clubs where the sound guy just gives you a DI box and moves on to the guitars
Members rummy Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 Definitely hot. I love the clean+dirty sound.
Members Poltergeist Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 those avatar 2x10's sound godly!
Members JeffBass Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 At first it sounded too thin but when you engaged the neck pickup on the RIC it sounded much better. The ideal distortion sound (IMO) comes from overdriving the amp and not from a pedal. It's good to run in stereo with one amp for full, deep, clear bottom and another amp (not as powerful) that you need to crank up to get the volume and overdrive. The problem is getting this in your bedroom for practicing or jamming.
Members Thumper Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 Nice. I think there may be a Guyatone in my future...
Members been_effected Posted October 28, 2007 Members Posted October 28, 2007 Jeeeezus...I think there might be a Guyatone in my future too, that things sounds exactly like what I've been looking for. Blended sounds fantastic!
Members Fiery Furnace Posted October 28, 2007 Author Members Posted October 28, 2007 Thanks guys... it's a pretty underrated little pedal, and the Guild is a huge part of the sound, it's my secret weapon. JeffBass I agree with you, but it's hard to get tube OD at bedroom levels like you said. Live I push the Guild to the point of breakup so that I get a pretty sweet OD when I dig in, but you can't really get that fuzz tone even pushing the amps really hard. The Bassman I found didn't have a sweet breakup at all, it was pretty flabby on it's own so that's why I used it for the fuzz channel, the Guyatone pretty much imposes over whatever natural amp tone you have
Moderators Kindness Posted October 28, 2007 Moderators Posted October 28, 2007 I really like the stereo tone. I will be doing the same with a Thunderfunk -> Acme B2 for the neck and V-4B -> Acme B2 for the bridge.
Members bholder Posted October 29, 2007 Members Posted October 29, 2007 Nice - that doesn't look like a stock Ric bridge pickup - did you slap a humbucker in there or something?
Members FloydianAnimal Posted October 29, 2007 Members Posted October 29, 2007 Great tone bi-amped man, it sounds huge!
Members Fiery Furnace Posted October 29, 2007 Author Members Posted October 29, 2007 Heh, you noticed bholder. The pickups are Seymour Duncan replacements from the 70's. I don't know if you can see it in the video, but there are 2 toggle switches near the volume pots that switch between humbucking and single coil with a coil tap... lots of options!
Members bholder Posted October 29, 2007 Members Posted October 29, 2007 Pedalgeek is out of stock - Tonetronix has them in at the same price. Just ordered one.
Members been_effected Posted October 29, 2007 Members Posted October 29, 2007 There's two on ebay, but I'm taking dibs!
Members Fiery Furnace Posted October 29, 2007 Author Members Posted October 29, 2007 Hey, my shirt is blue! Hope you guys enjoy your new Fuzz pedals
Members been_effected Posted October 30, 2007 Members Posted October 30, 2007 Hey, my shirt is blue! Hope you guys enjoy your new Fuzz pedals I would have been enjoying an ultra cheap one but the ebay guy doesn't take paypal or credit card
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