Pretty much the holy grail of lead tones in my humble opinion. Stick on channel 2 of the superduper and it drives it into complete insanity. It has turned a pedal that i have became so sick and tired of, so desperate to get away from, so repulsed by the way it's midhump was taking the beautiful tone of the 335 and making it into nasal sick, into the most amazingly perfect overdrive i've ever heard. GONE GONE GONE!!!! YES!!!!!! I now need to simply set the ts9 all to 12 o'clock and run it into channel 1 of the superduper and i get transparent, creamy, clear, wonderful, tone dripping, infinately useable overdrive. Run the tubescreamer into the superduper and all the ts midhump is gone! where did it go? I don't know. So then we come to using it with the overdrive and the fuzz pedals. It pretty much brings the balance of the pedals, amp, guitar and fingers in perfect allignment - THIS is the secret. Superduper on - both these pedals now retain thier volume perfectly and every phased swoosh of the stone or driven delay of the mem man is clear as a bell, in such a musical way that the interaction with the notes you are playing is perfect. I also don't know how it does it but prior to the super duper my small stone suffered terribly from it's legendary volume drop and my memory man over heavily overdriven parts just became mush as it's known to do badly. It emphasizes the effects - every delay is clear as a bell, it keeps the wild trippy modulations clear and swooshing, yet keeps everything sounding fuzzy, droney, woolly! So much dirt and attitude yet so clear - have NEVER heard anything like it from just one pedal. Things get wild but off course preventing everything from becoming messy mush is always difficult - if the right balance between craziness and clarity can be achieved then we hit psychedelic heaven. I play in a full on psychedelic spacerock shoegaze 60s throwback stoner experimental freakout 3 piece which relies on 2 guitars, layers and layers of luscious delay going from dreamscape to full fuzz assault, vocals with insane amounts of echo and a wild ass drummer. It turned my guitar strings into minnie riperton! In your face, warm, driving, sustained, growly goodness where every note is clear yet dirty - the perfect balance, singing even - yup thats the way to describe the sound - singing. Push the 2nd master volume super hard on circuit on top of it and i've NEVER heard an overdrive sound like it. The warmth and clarity of the notes, the immense perfection of tone, just enough boom, just the right bite, just the perfect amount of chime, the way it seems to mate with reverb on the amp - man it's 335 gold. On it's own as one super hard on it works like a dream with a 335 and a good clean tube amp. In that time i've NEVER been fully satisfied with my tone - always making sacrifices, always hearing there was an element of the tone which just wasn't cutting it, knowing you were pushing a musical idea but no matter how much you nailed the playing it just didn't sound 100% how you wanted it to. I've played the guitar pretty much constantly for 25 years since i was 12. I'm not too sure how to describe what happened next. We kinda knew then and there that we might have found it and with a fair degree of heady anticipation headed off to the rehearsal rooms. For so long have we been trying to find the overall sound that has been in our heads which would be the perfect sonic place for our band. Me and the other guitarist in the band had a smoke and a drink whilst getting the settings just right and we were both sitting in stunned silence. Took it home, dismantled the drives from my board and set it all back up again after plently of experimentation and ended up with this chain.ģ35> micro POG> wah> fulltone 69> keeley ts9> zvex super duper> small stone> memory man> boss dd2> voodoo lab tremolo> boss rc2> amp So i had my boost and drive decision made for me yesterday! Thought i would try the xotic pedals as a bench mark and since they were in my local shop.ended up trying a load of other options and then plugged a 335 into a zvex super duper.
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