Crunchity
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Got mine yesterday. VERY impressed after the initial fooling around process. Going to be hard to talk about these things right now without sounding like fanboys though...
I'm a happy STOCK SmallBox owner (my sig vid is 100% SB FWIW) and I can already tell my days of boosting (with a Timmy) the BE channel are done as far as pushing the amp into super saturated, shreddy type levels of gain. The pedal has way more gain on hand then the amp. In fact, I had to open my pedal up and back that trim pot down to around 2:00, and even then, it was super gainy (but what a drive tone it is) with the knob set at noon, more than enough for buttery, chewy lead playing up the entire neck.
I'll definitely have a clip in a day or two. I'll probably have three clips in fact, one to hear the cleans of the SB (amazing IMO) prior to hitting it with the pedal, the pedal itself and also maybe a clip of the amps BE channel hit with the timmy to compare the those two types of drives (so far I much prefer the BE-OD pedal gain over BE channel + Timmy pedal in that regard as they are different voicings).
Anyways, it's really cool. The pedal adds that third channel to the amp (HBE IMO), the amp + pedal gives me three distinct channels, the plexi/clean, which is great for anything from cleans to VH type brown sound (with the Timmy adding some hair), the stock BE channel for vintage or hair metal type crunch, and now, the plexi channel set clean + the BE-OD pedal for leads. And that last option is what's great, the pedal gain is voiced differently than the BE channel of the amp, clearly Dave is straight when describing the SB BE channel as being a slightly different (more vintage) variation of his BE100 amp. I guess it goes without saying, the BE100 and the pedal would be redundant, even if the pedal does indeed have more saturation than even that amp (and if you have THAT amp, heh, you probably wouldn't bother with the pedal newayz). But yeah, the pedal is pretty hip!
I'm a happy STOCK SmallBox owner (my sig vid is 100% SB FWIW) and I can already tell my days of boosting (with a Timmy) the BE channel are done as far as pushing the amp into super saturated, shreddy type levels of gain. The pedal has way more gain on hand then the amp. In fact, I had to open my pedal up and back that trim pot down to around 2:00, and even then, it was super gainy (but what a drive tone it is) with the knob set at noon, more than enough for buttery, chewy lead playing up the entire neck.
I'll definitely have a clip in a day or two. I'll probably have three clips in fact, one to hear the cleans of the SB (amazing IMO) prior to hitting it with the pedal, the pedal itself and also maybe a clip of the amps BE channel hit with the timmy to compare the those two types of drives (so far I much prefer the BE-OD pedal gain over BE channel + Timmy pedal in that regard as they are different voicings).
Anyways, it's really cool. The pedal adds that third channel to the amp (HBE IMO), the amp + pedal gives me three distinct channels, the plexi/clean, which is great for anything from cleans to VH type brown sound (with the Timmy adding some hair), the stock BE channel for vintage or hair metal type crunch, and now, the plexi channel set clean + the BE-OD pedal for leads. And that last option is what's great, the pedal gain is voiced differently than the BE channel of the amp, clearly Dave is straight when describing the SB BE channel as being a slightly different (more vintage) variation of his BE100 amp. I guess it goes without saying, the BE100 and the pedal would be redundant, even if the pedal does indeed have more saturation than even that amp (and if you have THAT amp, heh, you probably wouldn't bother with the pedal newayz). But yeah, the pedal is pretty hip!
