by Hulakatt » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:30 pm
Yeah, the non-BJFe's on my board...
Analogman. Anything they make in house always sounds just like I think it should and the craftsmanship sets the bar for me. I am always just a little disappointed with the stuff that they just modify though. The ARDX20 may as well be permanently fixed to my board, it's the delay I spent years looking for and then spent awhile hedging and hawing because I didn't want to pony up the cash. In the end I would have saved more by just buying it up front. The Peppermint Fuzz and the AstroTone are superb as well and I am quite taken with them.
General Guitar Gadgets. So far the best way for me to play rare classic vintage circuits without spending years and tons of cash hunting down the best of the rarest. Great stuff! The Orange Squeezer is my grab-and-go for bass and guitar.
Bennet Music Labs Brown Sound. Sounds pretty unique and is a blast to rip! It really nails that cranked-Marshall-with-a-hint-of-fuzz-and-a-little-bit-of-octave. Pure Hendrix! It's like running a DRD and an octave fuzz with a bit of clean blend and a mix between all 3. More of an impossible-to-recreate sound than the BBOD imho.
Vintage Technologies. I've tried a few of these beauties and held onto the Orange Sunshine and I'm still looking for the BFD Tremolo. I love this fuzz. Like a hot rod fuzz face but just a bit more over-the-top. The "no knobs" approach can be intimidating but I love these pedal even more for it.
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I have to add in Lumpy's Tone Shop as well. I recently got a good deal on a used Lemon Drop and I am completely blown away.
Resonant Electronic Design. I tried their fuzz and overdrive in a tourbox after I picked up their Graviton Boost. The fuzz was decent and I'm surprised the OD isn't more popular given how good it sounds but the boost is their best pedal by far. The build quality on all of them is fantastic and I totally dig the aesthetic they went with. I keep switching back and forth between the Graviton Boost and my SBEQ for good clean tones. The best way I can describe the difference is that the SBEQ is like a great BF Fender clean while the Graviton is like a great Vox clean.
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Hulakatt on Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
"I don't make things in order to have finished objects, I have finished objects as a by-product of my need to always be making."
-Adam Savage
BJFe: SBEQ, DRD, MG, EGDM
Bearfoot: BPB