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02-03-2011, 02:30 PM
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Got to pop the cherries on some Basic Audio prototypes.
Forgot to share my initial experiences with some pedals John sent me that he'd been working on. I've already got a custom Pale Rider being built, loved it. Here are my initial thoughts on his latest projects.
 The Lady Finger can be elegant and draw you in like a siren, but you'd better check to see if wallet and watch are missing. Knobs are volume, saturation, fuzz. With both fuzz and saturation down, it is sparkly. With both sat and fuzz up, it's very kazoo/zippery. Sat down and fuzz up, clears up the tone. Saturation is is kind of a bass control, feeding into the pedal so it adjusts for tone/clarity and for clean up. The more fuzz, the more compression. She's a feisty one, deceivingly scrappy. She can hobnob with the bourgeois, but when nobody is looking, she'll swipe the good silver.  The Pale Rider is quickly becoming a favorite. The knobs are just volume and body/bass. You've got fuzz ALL THE TIME. It's a hallowed nasal fuzz too, screams spaghetti western and creepy b horror. I love it, nothing on my board does this. It has a learning curve and was my least favorite at the very beginning. Big fuzzy all the time. Adjust the body knob to dial in low mids and body. Counter clockwise is buzzy and thin, clockwise adds lower mids and body to the tone.  Can you hear the drums Fuzzmondo? The stars were bright, Fuzzmondo. The texture is a blend of two different fuzz sounds and oddities in between the settings. Body adjusts for lower mids and overall fullness. This boy sings! Very smooth and can hold a note longer than the members of ABBA combined.  The Cicada doesn't mess around. This one has a fat ass and is in the Zippy family. Right now the knobs are volume and gain, but it may have a fuzz knob added at a later date. Remember, these are all still so new they are prototypes...prototypes near completion. I could see Muff fans digging on this one more than some of the others, but with the zippy bite still present. This was another early favorite, until I A/B'd it with my Zippy and luckily preferred the Zippy's more openness and range. The Cicada can be heavy and should have adult supervision for players under the age of 14.
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02-03-2011, 02:58 PM
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Damn those sound cool, you do a good job describing them. Would love to try a couple...
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02-03-2011, 03:06 PM
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Excited. The world needs fuzz.
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02-03-2011, 03:12 PM
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I should add that these were played via my Fender amp. When I took them to a friend's house and he played them on his Marshall stack there was quite a different vibe on the Pale Rider and Cicada (didn't have time to try the other two on his amps).
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02-03-2011, 05:55 PM
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Thanks for the nod Ryan!
I think you might find that they sound ok with a marshall type setup but your ears were tuned in for the fender mid scoop. I've done it before myself. You get used to a certain eq curve and when you hear something different it sounds all wrong. When you get some time to listen to them with a marshall set up for more than a few minutes you may find that that it just sounds different but not "wrong".
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02-03-2011, 06:42 PM
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Wow. They look great! Crikey, those cases are something else (as usual!)
I've been messing with a Scarab Deluxe and Tri/Ram for the last week and they're a few notches above extraordinary, too.  I'll be putting up videos for the same at the end of the weekend. It would have been sooner but every time I go to do a shoot I get totally engaged by them and nothing gets done. (Sorry John; this weekend, I promise!)
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02-04-2011, 04:39 PM
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Looking forward to it Brett!
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02-04-2011, 07:05 PM
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Those look great John. You should set up a tour box when they are ready; I can make a few demos
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02-05-2011, 05:12 AM
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Cheers, John.
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02-05-2011, 05:40 AM
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02-05-2011, 05:44 AM
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Kick ass - great demo that really showcases the versatility and range of this fuzz! And the great thing is that it sounds like it does through my rig as well - very good representation. I get the feeling John is going to sell a couple more of these this weekend
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02-05-2011, 06:23 AM
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