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They are pretty amazing, got especially lucky on this one as I got it used mint for a great price in the color I wanted. Semi-hollow, wood library with a Brazilian board and all rosewood neck. I will say though that lately I’ve really wanted to find a similar speck Special as I do sometimes like the idea of the simpler more Strat like controls but with the tonal options of humbuckers. Maybe one day.

@@GuitarTonePro I have 4 Core 594's, 1 SC58, 2 SC245.. Love them all

@paisteplayer1040 Awesome!

I agree, hook side on the pedal lets you stick it to a carpet floor (or carpet covered board in my case). If you are referring to the board here, have no fear, it’s dual lock. No fuzzy side on either!

I’m pretty sure it can do Kossoff, just not sure I can! 😆

Thanks and nice pedals! You’re going to be having fun!

I am finding all of Mr Wu’s designs to be amazing to play.

To be clear I bought 10 boxes and these weren't in the same box. I'll be demoing some of the other pedals as I start to understand how to use them.

I'm really digging it too! Haven't heard of the company before but it's a pretty great sounding pedal.

Thanks. A crunchy supper lead would be awesome!

Hey thanks for commenting. As far as the title, I’ll eventually be doing a comparison to my Two-Rock TS1, considered by many one of the best ODS inspired amps. I was surprised how close the Mk III actually gets.

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Let’s look at the common features between the amps. A Fender-ish clean channel with mid and gain boosts, multiple EQ shifts, and a second gain stage placed AFTER the tone stack (a particularly unique feature of these two specific amps at the time). But the most significant thing they had in common was that they were designed during the same period by two guys who were practically neighbors out in California. Alexander Dumble and Randall Smith, along with Mike Soldano, Bob Bradshaw, John Suhr, and others in the area, took the the single channel amps of the 60s and pushed them to the limits with more gain, multiple channels, effects loops, and pretty much every other feature we expect in a “modern amp.” It shouldn’t surprise anyone that a Dumble and a Mark III sound similar to each other.

@markwilliams142 Right on, and the EQ is so powerful in the MK III that it can cover a lot of ground. I’ll definitely compare it to my TS-1, but I’m also wondering how close it can get to a Marshall or other Fender based tones.

Anyone that has looked inside of one can tell you that isn’t true. Unless you’re talking about it at a very base level, like saying both a Dumble and a Marshall are just a Bassman.

All amps are basically a fender amp.

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Thanks! I can’t believe they actually sold, I put the first one up basically as a joke and it was gone in minutes. Seriously had to think about even listing the other one (some days I still regret selling my acid etched ayahuasca) so I bumped the price even more. Still sold in minutes. 🤷‍♂️ great pedal, but not worth keeping to me unfortunately.

Awesome! I’m curious how different the “precious” edition really is as already the SHODA is only marginally better than a Tumnus. I can already see the difficulty in comparisons to come since recording and then uploading to RUclips is going lose a good bit of the difference.

@GuitarTonePro I had the same thought about how different the precious vs regular are. I've got an older ckk scream honey, it's similar to the shoda set, but the shoda def sounds better. So maybe Wu really is improving the design with each iteration. The tumnus seems like it has the bar pretty high for this type of pedal.

The Tumnus is great because it has extra low mids like the SHODA does. I’ve compared it to 3 Centaurs, a KTR and a couple Archer and other clones. The SHOD is the first pedal of this type to have something the Tumnus doesn’t which is high harmonic content that blooms as the note rings much like the lead channel of a TS-1.

You’re welcome. They are just getting delivered to people so maybe more will show up. Then again they are very limited and quite expensive, so maybe not.

Depends on the application. Into a clean amp the B has more gain an is somewhat similar to the MGAT series in a simplified standard overdrive package. Like a high gain Marshall tone. Into any driven/lead channel amp, the volume of the A with its EQ curve does something pretty special that so far I’ve only really gotten from a Kingsley tube based boost.

So the partscaster had skinny frets that I just didn’t like, and was originally made wrong with the bridge in the wrong place so intonation was off. I was able to fill and redrill all of the wrong holes to correct that but the skinny frets mean it just wasn’t for me. The Squire was the first one I picked up and felt pretty great from the start. I did roll the edges of the fretboard more and filed/polished the fret ends but otherwise it played as good as any modern American Standard I’ve played which is what sent me down this path. Last is the “vintage” Mexican Strat. That guitar has mojo, plays amazing and has honest wear and yellowing that make it look great. Not sure if that is a fluke guitar from that year or just fits me perfectly, but feels and plays better than most Custom Shop Strats I’ve tried. In the end I kept the affinity as an experiment guitar, took apart the partscaster and sold everything except the electronics and put the electronics in the Mexican Strat as well as the vintage style tuners. Now it sounds as good as it plays.

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@bluwng welcome!

Any reason to buy a new Strat is fine by me! 😆

Thanks, I found it really surprising no one mentions the noise floor when using the mid boost circuit. With some amps it can be quite bad and requires you turn the pedal off to cut the noise since it doesn’t decrease with the guitars volume.

I’ll have to check out one of the Ge OCD pedals.

Thanks!

Thanks you for the kind words!

Thanks!

Rock on! 🤘

Heck yeah! Can’t go wrong with either of these fine pedals.

That’s tough as the pedal is pretty interactive based on the guitar and amp you use it with. The pdf is a good place to start for typical Marshall sounds. From there it reacts a lot like a Marshall so some of the rules apply as well, such as a lack of base in a Plexi until the gain is past 2 o’clock or diming the mids will tighten it up. Don’t be afraid to to go extreme with the settings either, a lot of times when going to a cleaner tone I’ll have the bass almost all the way up.

@yo_soy_pmd Ok, played around with the pedal some more to find a good starting point. These settings are about what I use going into my Bloomfield Drive with all of its knobs set to noon. All pedal setting are expressed in o’clock values. Volume to unity (just below 9), Gain a hair below 3, presence 12, Treble 12:30, Middle 1, Base 2:30. Switches are: top end down, low end down, densitity up, golden era down, gain structure up, gain saturations middle and right. For me at least these settings work on all 3 channels with my Strat.

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Yeah, sorry for using such a crummy guitar for this demo! XD

Hahaha

Cornish pedals definitely are more at home at gig volumes! Now you say that your CC-1 sits one a “small” board, but I find that hard to believe based on the size of that thing!

⁠@@GuitarToneProI use the term loosely! Couple gain stages, couple of wet effects. To be fair, the size of the enclosure of Pete’s stuff - even the battery-free ones - means you can squeeze them up against other pedals and still hit the button on stage. With smaller pedals, I tend to leave a bit of a gap between them to avoid hitting more than one, so it’s not much more real estate - from side to side at least.

@onenotesolo256 That’s true, except that he still puts the jacks on the sides. Really wish they were top mount.

@@GuitarTonePro very good point

Such kind words, thank you.

This one is more accurate to the vintage amps but doesn’t have a high gain JVM mode. The high gain mode is Mr Wu’s take on a modded JCM800 but supposedly the way the other modes react to the signal (for example the guitar volume knob) is supposed to be even closer to the actual amps. In practice, it’s generally brighter and more open sounding. I still have the original so I’ll try and do a comparison at some point, but some of the settings don’t come across well after RUclips compressed the video.

Really depends on just how low you need it to be. I play at night when everyone is asleep and can crank 100 watt amps because I’m in a basement offset. But as far as a “bedroom” volume amp, the high gain channel is ok at low volumes, but the other two channels don’t do a great job IMO. Unless you play out (and quite loud at that) as well as bedroom levels, this isn’t the amp for you. It’s like old Boogies where the volume goes from can’t hear to too loud by blowing on the knob.

​@@GuitarTonePro Thank the Lord for the Fryette Power Station.

@aaron9142 that would totally solve the problem.

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Hope you feel better!

@@GuitarTonePro thanks also tomorrow is my oldest sister birthday

@@aminahmed2220 Happy Birthday to her! Take her out somewhere fun! Maybe with live music!

Yep, making it my goal to start talking in my videos this year but right now it’s hard just to find time to record at all. 😆

Нет, он используется для легкой езды без особого увеличения громкости.

Couldn’t agree more, both MGATs have become some of my favorite overdrive pedals and pretty much just work however you run them. The original is still worth keeping for the higher gain sounds, but I agree the GE is just a bit more responsive to the guitar.

Awesome! That is a great set of pedals.

Your welcome! It’s lower gain than the original in general, but also a bit more lively with sizzle. Hopefully I’ll find some time soon to do a comparison of the suggested presets between the original and the golden era.

Yes, meant to be very mild overdrive, but also this video was shot back in the days of “transparent” overdrives heyday. It was a strange time where people got excited that you could turn on an overdrive pedal and hear no change. Check out my new video on this pedal. ruclips.net/video/Ph8VNfHUT-M/видео.htmlsi=11-5bXiGSe0rtSUK

Totally! I had bought a spare of the original worrying about all those small switches, but it’s had zero issues. Those small switches actually make a pretty big difference in this pedal and give all the variations that let you match, or customize, to authentic tones.

Thank you for the kind words!

You’re welcome!

Thanks!

Thank you for the kind words!

Thank you so much for your kind words! Both great pedals, similar in many ways, but react and sound different in others.

I don’t think the pedal needs to be played loud for it to work. It’s a very dynamic pedals that sounds good even quiet. Is it worth it? See my other video comparing it to the Brothers by Chase Bliss. For the way I was using it I could get VERY close in tone and feel, and that pedal has a lot more options available.