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Need help on these pedals
« on: April 16, 2009, 08:55:42 AM »
Pedals -
Harmonic Percolator
Effector 13 Truly Beatiful Disaster
Colorsound Tonebender
Fulltone Fulldrive 2

all ideas, thoughts which are good, bad, indifferent etc are greatfully appreciated
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Re: Need help on these pedals
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2009, 09:22:00 AM »
All I know is the harmonc perculator is a dirty fuzz used by Steve Albini of Shellac. Not sure if you can buy them anymore, but i have a schematic and plan to put one together soon.
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Re: Need help on these pedals
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2009, 08:22:04 PM »
All I know is the harmonc perculator is a dirty fuzz used by Steve Albini of Shellac. Not sure if you can buy them anymore, but i have a schematic and plan to put one together soon.

the schematics floating around don't seem to be 100% accurate, or more importantly - when built, they don't sound or respond like a Harmonic Perculator.  Watch the Youtube video where Steve Albini compares them side by side.


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Re: Need help on these pedals
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2009, 08:25:19 PM »
Fulltone is a MOSFET driven OD. Will do mild OD to face-melting depending on your amp's gain structure.

The Tone Bender is a SS fuzz pedal. Sounds great, but needs a clean amp. It is NOT very versatile.

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Re: Need help on these pedals
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2009, 01:53:34 AM »
I have the fulldrive 2-its sweet because its like a two channel box-od on the left...boost on the right-it has sort of a plexi vibe to it, and like fulltone products, built like a tank and dependable-I use it with my boogies to get more of a classic rock sound/gives the boogs some added bite/sometimes I just use the boost to slam the sh&t out of the front end of the amp while its dialed in with a low/mid gain setting--just the right amount of dirt and response-some good voodoo :D
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