BJFE Model R on the way

Congratulations. You'll have to report on how it sounds. Unless there are several out there with the Honey Bee baseplate, that one seems to change hands about every two months. I recently picked up a DRD and it sounds great.

 

It's more dependant on speaker choice than amp. I ran mine into an OD-100 using Eminence Gov's and loved the tone...Congrats on your new purchase!! :AOK

 

+1 to what stress said... results varry heavily based on the speakers you're using. I love it with my UG-30 & G12H30's...

It's a really cool, "high gain" distortion, more in the 80's realm, IMO...
It's one of my favourite pedals for awsome thick, creamy leads!

and all of the baseplates on the R's are yellow...

 

Any mention on why he does that?

 

Through my EL84 amp, not so much...Through my 6V6 with the same cab/speakers, killer! Enjoy!

 

not true, I have a Model R with a red base plate. Donner may be able to shed some light.

 

well they are supposed to have yellow bottoms

Heres why:



The prototype on the left has a Red bottom - so when this one went into customshop production BJ thought it would be fun to continue the motif and put a yellow bottom under the red top..I agree.......:BEER

 

I guess this means mine is ultra rare and therefore worth ooooooodles of money on eBay :NUTS

 

Welcome to Club R. the few the fortunate.

 

Well the R was created to give a specific response, which is why its a Customshop model ... it can sound amazing with Celestions and some Vox amps ............. it can sound really bad with some Jensen midscoopy speakers too,,,,
Its 'magic' is in its use of EQ and compression - it has a very particualr midrange, and if your speakers or EQ is midscoop then it doesnt have any thing to work with and can actually sound worse than nothing ; ]
So if your playing Rock thru celestions you should enjoy it - it can be really good at giving the signing,useful feedback....

enjoy!


(Oh and the all red ones have kooties and you should just give it to me to prevent an outbreak )

 

Donner,

Here's a question for you. I recently got a DRD and while it looks red in all the photos I've seen of it (including a photo I took of my pedalboard), what I found interesting is it tends to have more of a copper tone to it in real life. How does it do that?

Thanks. :AOK

 

well the first few hundred were the opaque red and now they are the translucent red....
BJ mixes the colors himself and sometimes the strength can vary a bit ---- and also he hand paints them so the actual thickness of the paint can vary from piece to piece ... the handmade look..
But when photographed depending on the light source the color can be intensified and even changed, giving more reds or yellows depending....
Yes its always a challenge trying to photograph pedals --- usually sunlight gives the truest colors ,

 

I didn't really notice the finnickiness, but maybe I had the right kind of gear. I think if you polled 10 gigging Dyna Red users, and 10 gigging model R users(if there are 10), the Dyna users would have more similar settings and would use it in a more similar way, whereas, with the extra volume boost of the Model R and more mellow clipping, I think you would see a lot more variance, like people using it as a boost, doing things with guitar volume knob, etc. I think it's less clear what you're "supposed" to do with it and thus more interesting.

 

I love the Model R, it's a very dynamic touch sensitive pedal. I like it better than the DynaRed.

TheGrooveking

 

I'm eagerly awaiting one, I should be coming up on the list very soon! Any thoughts on how it might sound with a '65 Blackface Bassman? All this talk of different results with different amps and speakers has got me confused! Has anyone using the R with the gear that its supposedly less compatible with gotten good results? Anway I figure they are cool enough that its worth a shot with my rig...

 

Speakers is the big variable.

I use the R thru a Princeton Reverb into a CELESTION Greenback and its killer.
What speakers do you run your bassman thru ? ( The main differences between Fenders and Marshalls are most Marshalls are EL34 Tubes and midhumped Celestions )