BJFE / BearFoot fx Guitar Effects Community

This may be beating a dead horsey, but now that some of you have had bonding time with your Stone Grey Distortions, what are your feelings?

What do you like/love? What is missing?

I will go one step further and ask any of you who have both a Cliffhanger (or CH2) and a Stone Grey Distortion how you feel the two compare. What areas are they different? What is the comparison between the respective outputs? And, what is the respective comparison in gain?

My curiosity is piqued, and I thought I would ask of your thoughts... Cheers!

I had a CHII, but havent tried the SGD. I thought the CHII was fantastic, but it is not a sound I need/use often if ever, so I traded it. Which is the reason I never picked up a SGD.

thesjkexperience wrote:I had a CHII, but havent tried the SGD. I thought the CHII was fantastic, but it is not a sound I need/use often if ever, so I traded it. Which is the reason I never picked up a SGD.

What type of music do you typically play?

I really love the SGD. I like it better than I remember liking the CHII. I pretty much never do the chuggy metal stuff, so I tend to have the gain at 11:00 O'Clock or lower. But it KILLS there, just a killer classic rawk sound with a really unique texture.

A few weeks ago I was playing at my church, and they had us work up a version of "Runnin Down the Dream" by Tom Petty. The SGD with the gain knob @ 9 O'Clock or so really nailed that main chromatic riff in the song.

rockeroo wrote:

thesjkexperience wrote:I had a CHII, but havent tried the SGD. I thought the CHII was fantastic, but it is not a sound I need/use often if ever, so I traded it. Which is the reason I never picked up a SGD.

What type of music do you typically play?

I play anything from Surf, Blues, Classic Rock, Bluegrass to Psychedelic/Ambient. I tend to write Surf and Psychedelic/Ambient with a nod to Trower and Pink Floyd. I did do a whole "concept" of songs related to Joshua Tree National Monument about a year before U2 did the same thing. I love the California Desert!

thesjkexperience wrote:

rockeroo wrote:

thesjkexperience wrote:I had a CHII, but havent tried the SGD. I thought the CHII was fantastic, but it is not a sound I need/use often if ever, so I traded it. Which is the reason I never picked up a SGD.

What type of music do you typically play?

I play anything from Surf, Blues, Classic Rock, Bluegrass to Psychedelic/Ambient. I tend to write Surf and Psychedelic/Ambient with a nod to Trower and Pink Floyd. I did do a whole "concept" of songs related to Joshua Tree National Monument about a year before U2 did the same thing. I love the California Desert!

I just summited San Gorgonio a week ago. That hike can be rough!

Never tried the CH but I did have the SGD. I really liked it for its big, bad sound and great clarity. It was also really good with the drive turned way down. A really versatile pedal. For what it did though, I prefer my MHvT - so I sold it. Had great fun with it though.

seans wrote:Never tried the CH but I did have the SGD. I really liked it for its big, bad sound and great clarity. It was also really good with the drive turned way down. A really versatile pedal. For what it did though, I prefer my MHvT - so I sold it. Had great fun with it though.

My MHvT has REALLY grown on me over the past month or two. I feel like it can hang with just about anything for lead work and rhythm playing. It stacks INCREDIBLY with lots of pedals and can be EQ'd to taste.

However, I do enjoy rocking the CH2 time and time again -- both low and high gain settings. The output on the CH2 is tremendous, especially when run on minimal gain levels.