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Roobubba

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NBMD
« on: April 01, 2009, 11:47:54 AM »
New Bloody Murder Day!

(No pics and clips yet, been too busy!)

It actually arrived last Wednesday, but I wanted to try it out at band practice before posting here. So, having ordered this back in May last year, I was delighted when it finally showed up.
So with a limited amount of time to play around with it at practice, I only managed to try out a few things.
It sounds quite transparent - no major changes to the tone, but some subtle tweaks which seem to tighten things up a little, and bring out a bit more aggression. Plus it gives me the flexibility to lower pre-amp gain and have a wider range of tones available.
Oh, and the LED is SO BRIGHT!

I'm interested to hear how other people are using theirs, and what sort of settings they generally use - I've not had any sort of tube screamer type of pedal before, so have no practical experience of what to expect each of the knobs to do (and there is no manual!).
Roo

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Re: NBMD
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2009, 12:43:12 PM »
YES! Finally.

May last year? that's insane... i'm far too impatient.
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Re: NBMD
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2009, 01:26:49 PM »
finally!!!

JDC

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Re: NBMD
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2009, 07:32:31 PM »
my typical settings for tube screamers (in modellers anyway) for an andy sneap style clean boost to tighten things up is gain 0, tone between 12 and 3 o clock, max volume

but I think adding a tiny bit of gain and any volume above 12 o clock works too

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Re: NBMD
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2009, 08:48:24 PM »
my typical settings for tube screamers (in modellers anyway) for an andy sneap style clean boost to tighten things up is gain 0, tone between 12 and 3 o clock, max volume

but I think adding a tiny bit of gain and any volume above 12 o clock works too

I remember you saying about Sneap before, the early 80s rock sound was a Marshall with a TS boosted like that. Or does it do something different with a br00talg@in amp?

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Re: NBMD
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2009, 10:48:07 PM »
my typical settings for tube screamers (in modellers anyway) for an andy sneap style clean boost to tighten things up is gain 0, tone between 12 and 3 o clock, max volume

but I think adding a tiny bit of gain and any volume above 12 o clock works too

I remember you saying about Sneap before, the early 80s rock sound was a Marshall with a TS boosted like that. Or does it do something different with a br00talg@in amp?

to be honest I really don't know much about TS boosted marshalls but I'm guessing it's the same thing since the mid hump EQ shape of the pedal tightens the sound since the mids get more distorted than the bass, or at least that's how I understand it from what I read when I was trying to work out what was so good about them, I know one of the bloody murder mods lets more bass through so the tone is thicker but still keeps the tightness, I've mostly seen them used on 5150s and triple rectifiers

I just hope I understood what I found out about them properly and that I'm not talking rubbish :)

here's the frequency response of a TS of how I set them in revalver, so you've got a better idea of the mid hump EQ



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Re: NBMD
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2009, 12:07:08 PM »
This pedal now makes total sense!!!

On tuesday's practice, the switch controlling channel switching on my 5150-II broke, so I was stuck on the clean/crunch channel. Making the best of a bad situation, I stuck the bloody murder on level: 10, tone: 5, drive: 0 and put the gain on the preamp on about 5/10. With the bloody murder in line, this gave a REALLY BRUTAL tone, but very open and dynamic -not overly compressed like the drive channel on the 5150-II. It was a real breath of fresh air, and gave me quite a few tonal options at hand, with and without bloody murder (which sounds beautiful through the clean - non-crunched - channel, going from passable cleans (better with it off) to nicely overdriven tones when really hitting the strings hard. Then kick in the crunch setting and BOOM, brutality awaits. Hahaha!

I'm not yet sure whether I'll stick with this for our gig tonight (headlining!!), or to go back to mainly using channel 2. I might try it on a couple of tracks to see how it sounds.

Thanks Joe Bodenhamer, this Bloody Murder is Bloody Brilliant!

Roo