yet another Sweet Honey Thread.....

[Bobby D]

just spent a week with her, and will write up my full impressions and thoughts after i get some sleep.


but here's a quick little pic you may enjoy of the SHOD in paradise

[VacuumVoodoo]

Very juicy

[melodichaotic]

Sweet Honey knows how to swing! Was waiting to hear your impressions of the 'lil orange brick.Looking forward to getting my SHOD in a week or so. I had a gig on Sat night playing through the Deluxe HBOD I recently got, into a '59 Gibson GA 20 only all night and was one happy tone camper!
It elicited much inspired soloing and textural guitar vol knob twiddling...ok yes, I said it, I was twiddling my knob all night and I'm proud of it!
Hey, keep those Jaco clips coming, and smokin' soloing from your Myspace page on "The Journey"!
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[Bobby D]

thank you guys!

well, one thing is for SURE........the SHOD is NOT....i repeat NOT! the honeybee.

while i could hear a distant relation, an almost subtle quality in the upper mids that reminded me of the honeybee, this is a completely different pedal.

it is a testament to my faith in Bjorn and Harri that i went onstage with the SHOD, having never heard it, nor had i tested it to see if it even worked

first nite, i experimented with it. was saddled with a backline amp, fender hotrod deluxe.....

this pedal is NOT very "forgiving". it is indeed tighter and more focused than the honeybee......but i found myself missing some of that "honeybee feel"

to me, this pedal sounds closer to the Sparkling Yellow OD, with a touch less gain.....maybe the SHOD is the child of the SYOD and not the HBOD....hmmmmm?????

what i REALLY liked about the SHOD was the sparkle like quiality, the "zing on the strings", the "stringiness", and the presence of the pedal. it DOES NOT sound like a tube screamer! and it will probably make many people happy that are sick of the tube screamer sound and want something different. such as myself

by the second nite, i had dialed the SHOD in to a good setting, and set about dialing in my LGW and SWF to stack with the SHOD.

the SWF into the SHOD was a REALLY good sound, and got me sort of close to a Dyna Red sort of sound, but more open and less compressed. YAY!!!!!

LGW into SHOD was very good too, with more mid content, i tried to dial some of that out with the "body" knob, and got a pretty good heavy OD sound with LGW into SHOD.

i REALLY liked that basic tonality of the SHOD, and with a strat, it made all the individual pickup selections jump out bright and clear, especially the 2 and 4 "in between" positions were very mark knopfler-like.....

it's a WINNER.....and it's NOT a honeybee. not even close.

now.....one i get my PGC, and run that pedal into the SHOD, it might be closer to a honeybee. the SHOD does not have that magical dynamic honeybee thing going on the way the honeybee does.

wanna know what's funny? the SHOD addresses the couple of issues i said i would change on the honeybee. and i DO love the SHOD.

but guess what??? i miss those exact things i complained about

guitar players can be SO FICKLE sometimes.....

here's my little photo essay of SHOD in paradise:



we arrive in key west, and SHOD gets some sun....



nice shot on the boardwalk!



SHOD in the mouth of a 17th century cannon



this conch fisherman liked the SHOD



another fan of the SHOD!



this is a shot of the SHOD at Mel Fisher's museum. Mel was the guy who discovered the treasure of the Atocha, and this was his mantra. "Today is the day". He said that for TWENTY YEARS before he found the treasure.

i think it's a good mantra for those waiting for BJFE pedals.....



this is the SHOD at the Mel Fisher Museum, in a box of gold coins......the MONEY SHOT!



i call this one SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK



one last one.....being held by one of the maritime statues......

[seans]

Ha ha... Excellent overview as always Slim. I totally concur with all your observations. One great combo is the SHOD into a HBOD. Man tttthat rocks and I highly recommend trying it. It is a great stacker and agree that its great with the SWF. The thing is that I now have SWF>SHOD>HBOD and a Model H on my board and can't ditch any of them! Thats a problem for funds and space. Hmmmmm. Something must go...

Thanks Slim

Cheers

Sean

[Bobby D]

yeah, i FEEL you sean.....

i think the combo of the PGC and SHOD will get me somewhere close to honeybee land

the SHOD is quite sparkling......i think it's a sparkling amber drive

[analoghog]

....i agree with you, i was thinking the same thing about the SYOD.....which is a good thing in my book....i love my SYOD !!...

[Bobby D]

i gotta say, i REALLY like the SHOD. gonna record a video demo of it for TOnefactor.com this week, and really get a chance to "play" with it, now that i am home

[Windfeld]

Really looking forward to that video:D. I really love the honey bee, but I don't like that it sounds so "small and boxy" (as it's supposed to), so I think I will really like this one... can't wait to hear it:D

[Bobby D]

Really looking forward to that video:D. I really love the honey bee, but I don't like that it sounds so "small and boxy" (as it's supposed to), so I think I will really like this one... can't wait to hear it:D

hopefully i will be able to make a video demo that shows the variety of sounds possible with the SHOD. i did not get to play around with it much at gigs, just got a good sound and went with it for the rest of the week!

basically vol at noon, focus at noon, gain about 2 pm....