I've never liked a TS of any time before, and I got this one after hearing it in your Cusack Tap A Delay demo and then watching this, and it's what I've always wanted in a TS. Thanks!
I think the companies that make their own TS circuit pedals, usually alter it to make a better overdrive. Not unlike what Robert Keeley was doing years ago, and then did with his own TS style pedal. They can sound great, but I don't consider the good ones(like this Stinkbug) simply TS Clones. They are better than that label imo, for they have evolved. Really nice playing for the demo.
Nice demo. Tasty blues licks from your friend, Kasper. The pedal sounds very good. If I wasn't very much in love with my Maxon OD-808 and my T-Rex Møller, and currently only use OD for boosting an already howling amp, I'd be very interested in this pedal. EMMA makes some great sounding pedals. If they'd only drop the comic sans. I'd have to sandblast any pedal I buy from them, before putting it on the board. :D Also, I gotta ask - what is up with Brent Hinds in the frame in the background? You don't seem* like much of a chickin' picker or a sludge fanatic, so there's gotta be a story to why that picture is so prominently features in your videos?! *) edited
Happy you liked the demo, my friend. Totally get that you're maxed out on Tubescreamers for now. But if you ever see it in a store, you should definitely give it a go. Just to hear how awesome it is in real life. I'm blown away every time I turn it on. And the story behind the picture is that 1) I'm a big fan of Mastodon. Even though you don't play a genre that much, doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it and be inspired by it :) 2) I snagged it from the wall at a Metal Festival in a drunken haze, so it reminds me of that as well. My wild youth ;)
;) I own this pedal and two different tube screamers. And honestly I think they respond in very different ways. The stink bug, depending on your amp and guitar of course, is more likely to disappear a bit in a dirty live mix because it tends to do those delicate frequencies that a vulnerable to those situations. It's a very nicely balanced tone, but a somewhat fragile one as well. Somehow the price of balance seems to be having less core in what I interprete to be the upper mids region. I bought mine off the actual designer. He told me he'd been kind of going for an SRV type of crunchy clean with this. I think that's noticeable. Many of the classic SRV tones are a TS into the bright channel of a fender amp. That's kinda what this sounds and feels like to me - a RECORDING of a TS into a fender bright channel as opposed to an actual TS into an amp. Kind of produced, in a smooth, glassy but somehow slightly disembodied way, if that makes sense. Like imposing an image of the end result on the amp in the shape of a pedal. I totally get your preferred settings. I think they are probably what it does best.
I've never liked a TS of any time before, and I got this one after hearing it in your Cusack Tap A Delay demo and then watching this, and it's what I've always wanted in a TS. Thanks!
Great demo!
Thank you, my friend :)
I think the companies that make their own TS circuit pedals, usually alter it to make a better overdrive. Not unlike what Robert Keeley was doing years ago, and then did with his own TS style pedal. They can sound great, but I don't consider the good ones(like this Stinkbug) simply TS Clones. They are better than that label imo, for they have evolved. Really nice playing for the demo.
Nice demo. Tasty blues licks from your friend, Kasper. The pedal sounds very good. If I wasn't very much in love with my Maxon OD-808 and my T-Rex Møller, and currently only use OD for boosting an already howling amp, I'd be very interested in this pedal. EMMA makes some great sounding pedals. If they'd only drop the comic sans. I'd have to sandblast any pedal I buy from them, before putting it on the board. :D
Also, I gotta ask - what is up with Brent Hinds in the frame in the background? You don't seem* like much of a chickin' picker or a sludge fanatic, so there's gotta be a story to why that picture is so prominently features in your videos?!
*) edited
Happy you liked the demo, my friend. Totally get that you're maxed out on Tubescreamers for now. But if you ever see it in a store, you should definitely give it a go. Just to hear how awesome it is in real life. I'm blown away every time I turn it on.
And the story behind the picture is that 1) I'm a big fan of Mastodon. Even though you don't play a genre that much, doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it and be inspired by it :) 2) I snagged it from the wall at a Metal Festival in a drunken haze, so it reminds me of that as well. My wild youth ;)
Soo... How much are you looking forward to the new Mastodon album? On a scale of Leviathan Mountain Skye to Once More In Remission Around The Hunter?
Hi bro! Would you say this pedal has a klon clone vibe?
No, far from it. It's more like a Tubescreamer but with less mids.
It's smooth because it's scooped. It's nothing like a tubescreamer in terms of how it drives an amp.
;) I own this pedal and two different tube screamers. And honestly I think they respond in very different ways.
The stink bug, depending on your amp and guitar of course, is more likely to disappear a bit in a dirty live mix because it tends to do those delicate frequencies that a vulnerable to those situations.
It's a very nicely balanced tone, but a somewhat fragile one as well. Somehow the price of balance seems to be having less core in what I interprete to be the upper mids region.
I bought mine off the actual designer. He told me he'd been kind of going for an SRV type of crunchy clean with this. I think that's noticeable. Many of the classic SRV tones are a TS into the bright channel of a fender amp. That's kinda what this sounds and feels like to me - a RECORDING of a TS into a fender bright channel as opposed to an actual TS into an amp. Kind of produced, in a smooth, glassy but somehow slightly disembodied way, if that makes sense. Like imposing an image of the end result on the amp in the shape of a pedal.
I totally get your preferred settings. I think they are probably what it does best.