BJFE / BearFoot fx Guitar Effects Community

Hello - I just picked up a PGC and have been playing around with it - in front of other pedals, at the end of the chain, tweeking the nature, etc. What are some favorite places and setting out there? Thanks!

PGC is great. It really opens up your sound to a different level. I mean everything is crispy, clear, and open sounding. I find my best setting are V=10 B=5 C=12 (slightly less than noon). You can always ad it after a really loud distortion to tame things a bit and it does that well too. To be honest, I already miss my SBEQ It really added a lot to my rig. Alas.

So, what do compressors do- they even out the peaks and decrease loud volume spikes. Now, for BJFE drive pedals, they operate EXCEPTIONALLY well in reaction to pick attack- so I do NOT put my PGC before drive pedals. Personally I find it can even out your dynamics and can take away a big part of what I love about these drive pedals!!

Some like compressers first in the chain, at a low compression setting as it still allows some dynamics to come through.

I like compressors to add sustain- mild settings, that increase sustain add sparkle to the upper mids.. but dont squash dynamics like an OS. Your drive pedals see the uncompressed guitar level without any compromise - but you still get the sustaining effect of the compressor by having it after drive.

Remember the pedals later in your chain color the overall sound more- and the PGC has some cool sparkle to add here.

I use mine during lead parts and during clean parts, but run it AFTER drive- body at around 1:00 to add a little more shimmer, and compression at ~11:00 or slightly lower so that the sound doesnt get too punchy. On higher levels of compression with the PGC my low E string loses its punch and attack and I dont particularly like that. However for two songs our band does that have funky rhythm parts, I reach down and crank up the compression to about 3:00.

I am glad that bsic posted that - he was really cool about helping me with that information as I am learning the PGC. I have never used compression until picking up a Durham SexDrive (really cool clean boost/mild compression) and the BJFE PGC is much more subtle than the Durham.

A few pages back there's a post from Bobby D that talks about the PGC being similar to the CAF in that a few micro clicks on the nature can lead into a whole different kind of compression. I guess my question in this thread was related to both the generic and that subtlety.

Truth of the matter is; I dove in quick and deep with my BJFE experience. After owning a TOP for about a year (which I love), I bought the HBOD and the BJFE LGW and that was all she wrote (In addition to the TOP, I now own 6 BJFE including a new MGMV that just arrived)... I think each of these pedals require a much greater learning period that any other effects I have ever used (save for some insane delay pedals with 50 page manuals). All the tweeking of the BJFE has lead me back to a whole new layer of discovery with the TOP.

I really appreciate how well this forum flows and the cordial posting behavior. Thanks!