Swedish Meatball Tour Box - Part III - Da Craise Review

[Craise]

Some first Thoughts from playing them last night.
Running a 89LP with 70's Humbuckers through a 64 Princeton Reverb with RCA blackplate tubes and c10n jensen.

Mad Professor Delay
BJ hit's one WAY out of the park. By far the most musical and uncomplicated to setup delay ever.
This is the delay of my dreams. You can not dial in a bad sound.
So simple to set up...it blends with your playing like no other. Very dynamic and responsive to
picking. I don't want to say to much...becuase I don't own one...and want to make sure I have one soon!;)JK!
Holy crap..shhhhh...it really is that good.

Mad Professor Little Green Wonder
This pedal sounded exactly like the BJF Little Green Wonder I used to own. There is some difference in the tone knob.
It seems a bit more smooth of taper. OD tone and feel are 100% BJF

Himmelstrutz FETTO
Wow, This pedal was a nice surprise. Very much in the BJF Dyna Red/Marshall flavor camp. String/note separation out the yingyang!
Nice range of tones, usable tones found all around the tone knob. Not a one trick pony. I do hear what the doc is saying. It can
get a bit fizzy with the gain up high.

Ola Insulander Boost
This was also a nice surprise...my Princeton Reverb really loved this pedal. Very clean transparent boost with
the ability to dial in some grit. Kind of like a Tim at some settings, but phater.
Loved this pedal.

Ola Insulander Overdrive
First time I tried this one out, I didn't care for it. But then I read, Doc's review and made sure I had
the volume higher than the gain. Then it started to sound better. It reminded me sort of the BJF Baby Blue Od.
Very amp like and dynamic. I did find that I wanted more..volume and gain...especially more volume.
So then I tried it with the Boost after it and wow! nice tone! They sound made for each other.

I'll play them again tonight and report on my 2nd findings.
Also I hope to record some clips.
Thanks to Donner and the Swedish meatballers!

[Donner]

Excellent Craise - also try running the OIM Boost BEFORE the Drive ~ it livens it up nicely.....

and try the Fetto into the OIM Drive too - the drives treble control is just at the fizz band so you might get an interesting mix there.....anyway have fun experimenting and thanks for the reviews

[Beckanon]

Nice reviews there, Craise. I haven't had a chance to do so myself, although you and Doc have done a nice job of describing the pedals. Here's some of my thoughts to tack on:

I loved the MP delay...sweet sounding delay. That extra bit of delay time makes it very versatile. Loved it. Works well with clean or overdriven sounds.

The LGW is familiar, though a little different from how I remember my old pedal. More gain on tap here, and this pedal sounds a little brighter and less mid focused.

The Ola boost is very clear sounding and did a great job of overdriving my amp. I like the added tone control...although I'm not sure its totally necessary -- I'd like to hear this one without it. I get the feeling its in the flat EQ camp of the Baby Pink and others. It did a nice job pushing any dirt pedals down the chain from it -- especially my Small Fry.

The Fetto is a cool overdrive and distortion. On clean boost settings I heard some strong mids -- musical sounding, not grating. This was less noticeable as I turned up the drive. The distortion has a lot of treble teeth to it. Nice Marshall tones that have some Rat in there.

The Ola overdrive was perhaps my fave. Sounded gorgeous through my rig and my Tele and P90 Rev loved it equally. This pedal takes the Marhsall sound in a smooth direction. It chews on dynamics very well, the compression is just right. Reminded me of the Dyna a little, but mixed with some Menatone Howie or something like that.

[Donner]

oh if t he Fetto is a little fizzy on your rigs drop one of the treble dips inside ---- thats whats nice is you should be able to tweek it to your individual rigs pretty easy....

[DocRock]

Yeah, I had seen that stuff inside when I opened it up. Very cool! I didn't want to mess with it, though, because I was afraid I wouldn't remember where it had been factory-set. Oh well. Perhaps I should have ... nice pedal either way....

Doc

[Beckanon]

Knowing that, yes the Fetto would be a keeper. Almost more important than the EQ is the dynamics of that pedal. I was impressed with the sweep and change in sounds the drive knob provided. Very nice pedal.

[Craise]

cool! thanks for the info don...I'll try switching some of the dip switches to see if It can be dialed out on my rig.
Yes I was impressed with this pedal...
Also I need to return to the Ola OD...I was thinking, I just used it with the battery that it came with...and it might be running low.
I'll have it ready to go on monday...who get's the next taste?

[DocRock]

Gil, in Maryland, is up next. Donner said so in the Tourbox List thread. Just thought I'd save you the trouble because I saw it there.

Doc

[Donner]

cool! thanks for the info don...I'll try switching some of the dip switches to see if It can be dialed out on my rig.
Yes I was impressed with this pedal...
Also I need to return to the Ola OD...I was thinking, I just used it with the battery that it came with...and it might be running low.
I'll have it ready to go on monday...who get's the next taste?

mmm thats also a good point on the batteries - I never use batteries so those could be dead for all I know .... thanks forthe reminder - in fact if you have time and want to check them all that would be most excellent.....

[Himmelstrutz]

Thanks for the nice reviews guys! Just as Donner says: if FETTO seems fizzy (could be so in at least some Fender amps), it may be time to check the internal switches. A picture how to do this is linked below. But be careful. If you "Cut" too much, it may be muddy and dead sounding. I think it's enough if DIP-3, 4 is ON. OR one of them is OFF and the "Output Level/Treble Cut" jumper is OFF (Mounted on one pin)

Best regards

/Joakim