Well, After much experimentation, I've been using the CPR pretty much every day, and I've come to the conclusion that I love it. It really thickens and widens out the tone tremendously!
Yesterday I began setting up to record guitar tracks for the demo versions some new songs that will be appearing on TO album #2. After an hour of tweaking, I ended up with a great tone! I mic'd the cab with a Shure SM57, after experimenting with 3 other mics, since that mic just sounded the best for what I was doing. Once I got the mic position set, I taped off the spot with gaffa tape.
Today I spent 7 hrs tracking the guitars for the 1st song, which runs about 8:15 in length. In the middle of the song there is a very vintage Priest kind of haltime section for the solos, and I wanted a mild overdrive sound. The CPR totally smoothed out the sound for this part and it sounds so organic!!
For the rest of the song, there's a lot more distortion, and I used the CPR throughout. My signal path is now:
Guitar > Dos Mos (as buffer) > CPR (mild amount of sustain, level at 12:00) > Big D > Rivera Knucklehead.
The other change I made to my rig was to use a different EQ setting and to crank the gain on the Rivera to 10. I'm now using the Big D to just add a bit of bite to the sound, instead of relying on it for the bulk of the distortion. The end result is a tone with more presence, better attack, and tons of harmonic complexity, while still retaining that nice, fat, tube warmth!
Wonderful pedal, highly recommend it.
