Purple Humper..

[SteveA]

Tourboxes and unintended consequences..just sayin', it's a beautiful thing!

Hey, Donner, can you start a MR or AMWM Tourbox?

My ohh my, if that ever happens!!! I actually would've liked to try out the purple humper as well though i'm sure i would have had the same reaction as you did of not wanting to get attached to something i may never own!

[SteveA]

Just got my purple humper today! Amazing sound for a strat. It does give it that humbucker kinda sound. I have to play with it (voltages and knob) and see what i can dig up but it really is doing some wonderful things to my strat between it and the BPB,RRB, and PGC i've got all the tailoring of my sound that I need !!! Actually should still get the SBEQ! Miss that pedal as well.

[scottcw]

Question for all the "humpers" out there... do you find the PH adds any compression or does it only do mid-boost? Could you live without a compressor by using the PH only?

[thetoneseeker]

I wouldn't be able to. I'm too attached to my PGC!

[thesjkexperience]

Question for all the "humpers" out there... do you find the PH adds any compression or does it only do mid-boost? Could you live without a compressor by using the PH only?

The thing to know is the early PHs are not exactly the same as the one Bjorn made for me and I am guessing he makes all the new ones like mine. The older ones sounded best at 18 Volts where the new ones at 9 Volts sound about the same as the old ones at 18 V. I think mine is #009 and I do not feel any compression or much sag like I do on my #03x (I can't remember the last digit) SBEQ does at 9 Volts. It does boost the mids and a small amount of volume and it works great into a clean or dirty amp and with all the dirt I have tried it with.

My chain is below. Now that I have figured out the PGC I really like the PGC>PH> dirt >SBEQ chain. It really can make a Tele or Strat sound like BB King! I do have fewer dirt pedals because of the PH and PGC as well as having a Fuzz on the board, but if you look at my signal path below there are so many possibilities mixing the different pedals I don't need 5 OD/Dist pedals anymore.

[SteveA]

Me neither, i really love what the PGC does to my sound. If there is any compression i suspect you only hear it at the higher settings. Aside from that it really sounds good to me especially for some bluesy stuff.

[thesjkexperience]

Me neither, i really love what the PGC does to my sound. If there is any compression i suspect you only hear it at the higher settings. Aside from that it really sounds good to me especially for some bluesy stuff.

The PH is a funny pedal! You can easily forget it is on while demoing the pedal, but the first few jams after sending the PH back to Donner were kinda sad

I actually can not believe how stable my board has been. I do have two (at least) I would love to add (Gemini III and CB Pareidolia) and I rarely plug in the wah. The trouble is I would need a third power supply to do justice to additional pedals! So, I just hook them in and they hang off the board. The CB Pareidolia is really something and also works great as a fat boost at the front or rear of your chain.

[rasputin1176]

Purple Humper day!!!! This was a great day, when I saw USPS woman grab a box from truck, when I wasn't expecting yet I got very excited. Finally a Purple Hunper. Thanks to those on this forum's descriptions. They got me hooked and now I find it was all accurate. It's a subtle pedal but I'm loving it. It stacks so great with everything. But mainly that thicker les Paul like quality it does to my strat.
I'm also a Gilmour fan, really like '90s live tone, and he has active mid in his strat that really played into working with the Civil War muff, tube driver & Cornish G2, which I have. To me the PH works way better than those guitar circuits. And allows the best of both worlds with a pedal and keeping regular passive pickups. A lot of my vintage stuff isn't on my board right now but I did try it out! (I'm planning on combing all the gear once I get CustomAudioElectronics to make me a custom bypass looper to spec with buffers where needed, multi amp out....) I'd love to be able to take full advantage of pedals, turning on & off any combination. Gotta save up though, it's a future wish

So what setting do people like on the PH? I started more 12noon, then I actually settled on more 8:00 only little way up. Depends on playing clean or dirty. Only certain dirt pedals do I like to boost with volume. So far the PH is working just as I hoped!

[thesjkexperience]

It seems with my Strats I like it around 1:30 - 2 o'clock, but my T-bone likes it closer to noon. I just finished a Jazzcaster (still missing a pickguard) with Rumpelstiltskin 1950 Black Rope pickups which sounds massive! I actually have to swap around a few pedals with that guitar as I really don't need the MR or PH, but prefer the Bearfoot SYOD twins.

[Hulakatt]

It seems with my Strats I like it around 1:30 - 2 o'clock, but my T-bone likes it closer to noon. I just finished a Jazzcaster (still missing a pickguard) with Rumpelstiltskin 1950 Black Rope pickups which sounds massive! I actually have to swap around a few pedals with that guitar as I really don't need the MR or PH, but prefer the Bearfoot SYOD twins.

I didn't know anyone else actually used Rumpelstiltskin Pickups! I have a Pre-CBS set in my strat and am very fond of them. Superb pickups