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hi, I was wondering if anyone w/ a honeybee deluxe and a honeybee can tell me how different the honeybee side sounds from the original. The honeybee is my favorite od pedal of all time but I did always find it just a touch dark and Ive heard the honeybee on the deluxe has been ever so slightly improved in that area. How much different is the deluxe bee's tone than the original? thanks.

The deluxe has an internal trimmer which allows you to add more gain, which transforms it from a light OD to a more standard range OD.

The light/dark (Nature knob) is exactly the same as the original Honeybee.

Hope that helps!

thanks alot joe, your posts always help. I guess I wont need to do anything drastic to get a deluxe as I use the bee with the drive set pretty low and I really do love the tone and responsiveness.

I thought I had read somewhere that the HB DX had more treble on the right hand side of the tone control? or increased treble response overall.

Could be wrong though, but I'm fairly sure I read that on here a few weeks ago.

thiscalltoarms wrote:I thought I had read somewhere that the HB DX had more treble on the right hand side of the tone control? or increased treble response overall.

Could be wrong though, but I'm fairly sure I read that on here a few weeks ago.

I think you're right. I went back and read through some posts and saw the following from BJ --

Hi,

Actually Harri made me an offer I could not refuse, also considereing a temporary shortage of the K-430 boxes I normally use, and that to make a limited run of Honey Bee De luxes as there had been several inquiries if such a thing could be made, so I used the time created by the shortage to make a little special thing.
The HB DLX has a little more distortion on tap and that is setable via an internal trimmer and it comes set at lowest position as that is the closest to a standard HB and it has a slightly different Nature control as per what research has told and it has an independent boost circuit the same as used in Baby Pink Booster and so the HB DLX is buffered at all times.

I do listen and am most thankful for all eloquent feedback that I have gotten.
Right I have a nut to crack with the Sparkling Yellow versus Orange among a few other things.

Anyway about the HB dlx I have listened to what people have had to say and what they'd wish for and it has boiled down to
More gain, more treble, more output and that was actually given in the first HB DLX ever made and ordered by Kjell of Tolpatti.

Now please talk to Harri for further information

The time allowed for 10 units to be made but primary orders exceeded that from what I understand or rather am told so I'll make 10 more of those when next gap opens and we shall see, while at the moment things have cleared and it's regular orders as usual and that many thanks to the supportive crew at one of my suppliers of parts.

There are more fun research projects coming something I also used the gap to create.

Fun is being had at work,making more of all kinds of models requested.

Gentlemen have fun
BJ

Just gotta say that the "extra treble response" was what I was looking for in the HBOD! Excellent modification BJ!