BEEST mode

[Donner]

.... really good detailed explorations guys!!! Huge help !
And it follows alot of what I felt .... a couple things that struck me was on the fat /ccw side of the nature pot it became more useful but at the expense of the cw side becoming less useful ..... and theres a spot I think at about 10:30 where it just does that amazing almost painful, SRV clean scream, just bit a lemon face solo tone ..... but is it so changed that it really cant be called a Honey Bee is the question ????
Im thinking we will convert these back to more gain/push HBDeluxeish tone as origianlly intended for the HBst itself.... but there is definitly something here that might be useful in another pedal......

IF you guys want to play them over the weekend and send them back to me Monday (or sooner if you can get to the post office) and Ill set them up with the original HBeq and higher gain ~~~ it seems that would be a more universally useful pedal ~~~~

[Donner]

oh and of course if you really dont want to send them in and you want to keep them as is, thats your choice ...

[alanbarley]

Hi Donner, I'll be sending mine off today. I'm looking forward to seeing how the revisions sound.

Thanks!

Alan

[SteveA]

very interesting. At the risk of sounding ignorant, where can we get the beest? I didn't see it described on the bearfoot website?

[melodichaotic]

very interesting. At the risk of sounding ignorant, where can we get the beest? I didn't see it described on the bearfoot website?

This was a preliminary test batch of 4 to generate some feedback on the circuit and how Donner voiced it..read more of the entire thread for details.

Donner, just did a quick comp demo between the Beest and Deluxe Bee just for reference...yeah, that 10:30 Nature knob setting even with buckers still gives up quite a bit of Stevie Ray scream. Will be posting back to you today as well, and then can give additional feedback and demos.

[Donner]

very interesting. At the risk of sounding ignorant, where can we get the beest? I didn't see it described on the bearfoot website?

Right, its not for general sale yet - and the production Beest will be more what we were expecting I think - more front loaded gain that gives more actual overall distortion and some growling mids and sustain , not so much treble rip.....

[Donner]

very interesting. At the risk of sounding ignorant, where can we get the beest? I didn't see it described on the bearfoot website?

This was a preliminary test batch of 4 to generate some feedback on the circuit and how Donner voiced it..read more of the entire thread for details.

Donner, just did a quick comp demo between the Beest and Deluxe Bee just for reference...yeah, that 10:30 Nature knob setting even with buckers still gives up quite a bit of Stevie Ray scream. Will be posting back to you today as well, and then can give additional feedback and demos.

cool, yup thats the setting that sounds like my EGDM> HB stack and the sound that made me think this might be worth experimenting with

[thesjkexperience]

very interesting. At the risk of sounding ignorant, where can we get the beest? I didn't see it described on the bearfoot website?

This was a preliminary test batch of 4 to generate some feedback on the circuit and how Donner voiced it..read more of the entire thread for details.

Donner, just did a quick comp demo between the Beest and Deluxe Bee just for reference...yeah, that 10:30 Nature knob setting even with buckers still gives up quite a bit of Stevie Ray scream. Will be posting back to you today as well, and then can give additional feedback and demos.

cool, yup thats the setting that sounds like my EGDM> HB stack and the sound that made me think this might be worth experimenting with

EGDM > HBOD has to be one of the greatest stacks. Kinda like Neil Young's wall of sound.

[Your name here]

EGDM > HBOD has to be one of the greatest stacks. Kinda like Neil Young's wall of sound.

I totally agree with this. That stack is one of the best, most usable sounds I've ever heard... But then, I may have already said that 1,098,953,94.8 times... Lol.

[Donner]

ok, if all goes as planned we are going to finish up some more Beests to day and ill swap Alans over to current specs .... the other testers wanted to keep theres as is and get another current one .... so we can have some more folks in this second batch --- Ill let you know how many we finish this afternoon