The Honey Bee Challenge

[Donner]

I recieved Soulsonics' Folk Drive #2 ( I seem to have a collection of #2s including HB #2 )

And I got a good solid hour of time with it and the HB and the SHOD .....

the FD holds its own with these two just fine ! in fact its kind of somewhere between the two ....

I was suprised how well the 2 knob setup worked ---

Ill have to go back and find the settings - but I had the very pleasant suprise of finding a spot I really liked with a strat and then switched to a Les Paul and not liking the sound at all much , BUT there was a setting on the tonegain knob that compensated perfectly...

I also enjoyed the full sweep of the changes on this knob, it presented a useful range and also a rather wide range of EQ Dirt adjustments............

Its funny Im usually the first person to suggest MORE KNOBS !!!!!! but this is very tasty as is ......

My favorite application tho is this as a lead boost into the HB ~ HB for Chordal work and stomp the FD for single notes/solos could easily rename this the 'Honey Driver' for my uses .....

Then the damdest thing happened - my cat drug it off the board and her and the Turtle ate it ----- otherwise Id be sending it out on Tourbox duty

But yes you definitely have a keeper here SS ..........

[soulsonic]

Cool, I'm glad you like it. So, you think it's something people would enjoy as a kit? It's super-easy to build.

[Donner]

yes I do.... its quite useful as is, and maybe a deluxe version with separate tone and drive knobs as the professor suggested.....
and maybe a socket with instructions to change the EQ to the builder/users liklng..

[Donner]

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TOURBOX ON !!!!!!

[polifemo]

Cool, I'm glad you like it. So, you think it's something people would enjoy as a kit? It's super-easy to build.

Haven´t built anything for quite a while now...
A Folk Driver-kit would be nice!

It´s fun to build, and even more fun to mod

[micki001]

Mmmmmm Soulsonic and BJF in the same place... I must be in heaven Looking forward to Folk Driver Fun.

[Donner]

Ok, tomorrow Im going to send this on to Bobby first then up the east coast and over to the west coast and we will see whats what by then.......

[jfromel]

The Folk Driver arrived safely in Seattle this morning, tonight is band practice so I will give it a whirl and report back.

[Bobby D]

The Folk Driver arrived safely in Seattle this morning, tonight is band practice so I will give it a whirl and report back.

folk driver is REALLY good......i think you will dig it john!

[jfromel]

Martin has a winner here no doubt, here is what I ran tonight.

Fender CS closet classic '62 strat>
Fuzz Face clone (mine) >
Point to Point Go! > Basically my take on the electra distortion circuit with 1u input cap, 2n1304 transistor, .022u cap in parallel with 1n34a diodes at output.>
Folk Driver> Set the controls at noon to start and found a happy place with "T" at 9:30, "V" at 12:30.
Amp was a 18w 1974x type amp that I built with a V30

I liked how it took the FF and the Go! and it was nice first in line as well. Very dynamic and responsive and no ice-pick. I hate ice-pick. It seems that most dirt boxes are either mud or ice-pick and few find the happy place in the middle.

Something odd happened at the end of practice and the Folk Driver fused to my pedal board and I fear that it is permenanty stuck there:) I would like to give it another spin side by side with the HBOD and with different settings on the pedal.