Honey Beest Unleashed

[cajone5]

Well thats great to hear C.....!!!

Rocker and Musicomas Beests seem to have been messed up in transit, maybe funky stomps, so they will be sending them backin .....


Yes basically the Beest does not replace the standard HB, it goes beyond where the HB cannot, so yes the clean up is different..... great ear !!!

Yea I had a little scare when I got mine as it didn't seem to pass signal... then I unplugged everything and just plugged the HBOD in between the guitar and amp and all was well

Bad patch cable? Maybe. Who knows -- but I was glad to try it out so quickly -- thanks for the super fast shipping.

Will be back with more thoughts tonight/tomorrow hopefully!

[duaner58]

I had a chance last night to run the BEEEEST through the paces and was incredibly impressed. The beest has just the amount of extra gain I was looking for..

I used a Dr. Z Maz Jr combo w/ a tele loaded w/ tom short country coil bridge and a marc ford tombucker at the neck.

With the level at 12n, gain at 12n and nature at 10a I was in sheer bliss over the sounds coming out of this. Bass player new instantly that something was different... all he asked was what I tweaked on my HBOD.. and then made fun of me cause he thought I bedazzled it w/ glitter.

We play a heavier blues rock and I was getting Sabbath, Black Crowes, QOTSA, and Allmans all night long. Though it didn't clean up as good w/ the volume knob as the HBOD it was incredibly sensitive.. It reminded me of my fuzzface to be honest.. I never really turned the volume above 8 on my guitar the entire night. I noticed when i initially did I received some saturation in doing so.. But between 4-8 I could get everything I needed.

I used to stack a Lumpy's 71 (treble booster) into my HBOD and get nearly the same exact tones as the beest was getting but the Beest had more girth

[Donner]

Yeah like the difference between the early HBs and the later and BearFoot ones - the Beest has a slightly tighter bottom end and more open topend --- also this will show more depending on the speakers you use especially.... list the speakers you guys are using please ...

and yes the Beest is more for people who liked the HB but could not get enought dirt out of it .... many people may just prefer the standard Honey Bee and thats ok

[cajone5]

Added speakers to my equipment used (Mesa 2x12 with vintage 30's).

Also -- I'm pretty happy with the amount of bass The BEEST is definitely EQ'd very similar to the BF HBOD which I really prefer to the darker BJF. More treble content and the bass stays tight even with the gain up and that works really well with my setup!

[melodichaotic]

As I'm not in on this round, any chance anyone who is, and especially who has a Deluxe Bee, can at least post some audio clips?

I did one from the first round that I can still post, though thought it a moot point especially with this ensuing 2nd batch. As I mentioned before,

talking tone fall flat after a while because it is all about SOUND, right?

[duaner58]

I personally really dug the tone of this latest version. The touch sensitivity is present but my experience was completely different between the 2 bee's.. Both being good, but different.

There was a slight bit of volume difference between the beest and hbod... my hbod being slightly louder.. as in a hair.

My Z has a Celestion greenback in it... I did have to dial the treble and cut knobs just a bit so there is def more treble present.

Near the end of rehearsal we were just jamming around some americana type music which the HBOD is perfect for and I felt it cut through reeeeeeeal nice. It definitely has some roar in it.

[thesjkexperience]

Has anyone run the BEEst into a dirty amp? I'm talking single channel, non-master type OD.

Thanks!

[Donner]

~~~~ Guys I think we have hit a bad batch of stompswitches it seems..... some dont take the RoHS level soldering heat as well and while they may work fine for a couple times they degrade quickly and need replacing ...... of course the suck part of this is theres no way to tell until they actually start to fail, so they may test fine for me here and degrade as soon as you get them.....


The Honey Beest should be a good deal louder and more robust with a good deal more blooming distortion, if your Honey Bee is louder than your Beest , that aint right ..... Im sorry for this inconvenience ~ send them in and Illmake em right .....

[cajone5]

~~~~ Guys I think we have hit a bad batch of stompswitches it seems..... some dont take the RoHS level soldering heat as well and while they may work fine for a couple times they degrade quickly and need replacing ...... of course the suck part of this is theres no way to tell until they actually start to fail, so they may test fine for me here and degrade as soon as you get them.....


The Honey Beest should be a good deal louder and more robust with a good deal more blooming distortion, if your Honey Bee is louder than your Beest , that aint right ..... Im sorry for this inconvenience ~ send them in and Illmake em right .....

Is it safe to assume there's problems with all of them even if they haven't cropped up yet?

[Donner]

~~~~ Guys I think we have hit a bad batch of stompswitches it seems..... some dont take the RoHS level soldering heat as well and while they may work fine for a couple times they degrade quickly and need replacing ...... of course the suck part of this is theres no way to tell until they actually start to fail, so they may test fine for me here and degrade as soon as you get them.....


The Honey Beest should be a good deal louder and more robust with a good deal more blooming distortion, if your Honey Bee is louder than your Beest , that aint right ..... Im sorry for this inconvenience ~ send them in and Illmake em right .....

Is it safe to assume there's problems with all of them even if they haven't cropped up yet?

No, its an individual thing - some will some wont,,,, but if it does dont be suprised ...... this wasnt exactly the education I was expecting from a research batch but .....