BJFE / BearFoot fx Guitar Effects Community

sonictroubadour wrote:Tourboxes and unintended consequences..just sayin', it's a beautiful thing!

Hey, Donner, can you start a MR or AMWM Tourbox?

My ohh my, if that ever happens!!! I actually would've liked to try out the purple humper as well though i'm sure i would have had the same reaction as you did of not wanting to get attached to something i may never own!

Just got my purple humper today! Amazing sound for a strat. It does give it that humbucker kinda sound. I have to play with it (voltages and knob) and see what i can dig up but it really is doing some wonderful things to my strat between it and the BPB,RRB, and PGC i've got all the tailoring of my sound that I need !!! Actually should still get the SBEQ! Miss that pedal as well.

Question for all the "humpers" out there... do you find the PH adds any compression or does it only do mid-boost? Could you live without a compressor by using the PH only?

I wouldn't be able to. I'm too attached to my PGC!

scottcw wrote:Question for all the "humpers" out there... do you find the PH adds any compression or does it only do mid-boost? Could you live without a compressor by using the PH only?

The thing to know is the early PHs are not exactly the same as the one Bjorn made for me and I am guessing he makes all the new ones like mine. The older ones sounded best at 18 Volts where the new ones at 9 Volts sound about the same as the old ones at 18 V. I think mine is #009 and I do not feel any compression or much sag like I do on my #03x (I can't remember the last digit) SBEQ does at 9 Volts. It does boost the mids and a small amount of volume and it works great into a clean or dirty amp and with all the dirt I have tried it with.

My chain is below. Now that I have figured out the PGC I really like the PGC>PH> dirt >SBEQ chain. It really can make a Tele or Strat sound like BB King! I do have fewer dirt pedals because of the PH and PGC as well as having a Fuzz on the board, but if you look at my signal path below there are so many possibilities mixing the different pedals I don't need 5 OD/Dist pedals anymore.

Me neither, i really love what the PGC does to my sound. If there is any compression i suspect you only hear it at the higher settings. Aside from that it really sounds good to me especially for some bluesy stuff.

SteveA wrote:Me neither, i really love what the PGC does to my sound. If there is any compression i suspect you only hear it at the higher settings. Aside from that it really sounds good to me especially for some bluesy stuff.

The PH is a funny pedal! You can easily forget it is on while demoing the pedal, but the first few jams after sending the PH back to Donner were kinda sad

I actually can not believe how stable my board has been. I do have two (at least) I would love to add (Gemini III and CB Pareidolia) and I rarely plug in the wah. The trouble is I would need a third power supply to do justice to additional pedals! So, I just hook them in and they hang off the board. The CB Pareidolia is really something and also works great as a fat boost at the front or rear of your chain.

Purple Humper day!!!! This was a great day, when I saw USPS woman grab a box from truck, when I wasn't expecting yet I got very excited. Finally a Purple Hunper. Thanks to those on this forum's descriptions. They got me hooked and now I find it was all accurate. It's a subtle pedal but I'm loving it. It stacks so great with everything. But mainly that thicker les Paul like quality it does to my strat.
I'm also a Gilmour fan, really like '90s live tone, and he has active mid in his strat that really played into working with the Civil War muff, tube driver & Cornish G2, which I have. To me the PH works way better than those guitar circuits. And allows the best of both worlds with a pedal and keeping regular passive pickups. A lot of my vintage stuff isn't on my board right now but I did try it out! (I'm planning on combing all the gear once I get CustomAudioElectronics to make me a custom bypass looper to spec with buffers where needed, multi amp out....) I'd love to be able to take full advantage of pedals, turning on & off any combination. Gotta save up though, it's a future wish

So what setting do people like on the PH? I started more 12noon, then I actually settled on more 8:00 only little way up. Depends on playing clean or dirty. Only certain dirt pedals do I like to boost with volume. So far the PH is working just as I hoped!

It seems with my Strats I like it around 1:30 - 2 o'clock, but my T-bone likes it closer to noon. I just finished a Jazzcaster (still missing a pickguard) with Rumpelstiltskin 1950 Black Rope pickups which sounds massive! I actually have to swap around a few pedals with that guitar as I really don't need the MR or PH, but prefer the Bearfoot SYOD twins.

thesjkexperience wrote:It seems with my Strats I like it around 1:30 - 2 o'clock, but my T-bone likes it closer to noon. I just finished a Jazzcaster (still missing a pickguard) with Rumpelstiltskin 1950 Black Rope pickups which sounds massive! I actually have to swap around a few pedals with that guitar as I really don't need the MR or PH, but prefer the Bearfoot SYOD twins.

I didn't know anyone else actually used Rumpelstiltskin Pickups! I have a Pre-CBS set in my strat and am very fond of them. Superb pickups