KingsXJJ
Shredder
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I’ve been spending some time tweaking some nice pedals. One thing that has been eye opening is the difference in feel and tone when you vary the voltage. Going from 9v to 12v and definitely 18v can have a big impact. Great headroom, less sag, increased clarity, sometimes higher frequency response.Just a whole bunch of fun in “my lab” experimenting.
I was pondering and smiling about it all when suddenly I had a fantastic idea. What about applying the same logic and reasoning to modelers? Luckily, I have no shortage of logic on hand so I jumped right in with little or no forethought.
I just happened to have one of these from my Army days. I thought it would work perfectly for my purposes here so I grabbed it from storage.
After dusting it off, I went straight to the studio. I powered it up and 220v was ready to go. I use only the best in critical experiments such as this, so I hooked up my beloved AxeFXIII right in to it. Tuned up my guitar, plugged everything up and powered up the Fractal. Right away I was excited because I noticed the display was considerably brighter. Scrolling though my presets and menu diving was noticeably snappier and more responsive.
But the proof is in the pudding inninit? I scrolled to my favorite #34 Marshall patch and started playing. Immediately I noticed a difference in tone.. there was a TON of harmonics added! Almost like a hazy wall of sound and noise that just kept out from my fingers and pick. Quickly I found that if you breathed on or even looked at your bridge pickup it began to wail and create a feedback sound I would describe as electric. Lots of electric.. yes that is probably the best way to describe it.
I began playing furiously and couldn’t stop. It was simply totally inspiring like lightening running through my fingers (see sig). After god knows how long, I paused… it seemed like perhaps a storm was coming! The strong smell of ozone was in the air and that odd feeling like hair standing up on the back of your neck and that something was about to happen… Something very soon..
Being one for safety, I thought I should probably unplug everything before the storm hit. First, I think I’ll unplug my
I was pondering and smiling about it all when suddenly I had a fantastic idea. What about applying the same logic and reasoning to modelers? Luckily, I have no shortage of logic on hand so I jumped right in with little or no forethought.
I just happened to have one of these from my Army days. I thought it would work perfectly for my purposes here so I grabbed it from storage.
After dusting it off, I went straight to the studio. I powered it up and 220v was ready to go. I use only the best in critical experiments such as this, so I hooked up my beloved AxeFXIII right in to it. Tuned up my guitar, plugged everything up and powered up the Fractal. Right away I was excited because I noticed the display was considerably brighter. Scrolling though my presets and menu diving was noticeably snappier and more responsive.
But the proof is in the pudding inninit? I scrolled to my favorite #34 Marshall patch and started playing. Immediately I noticed a difference in tone.. there was a TON of harmonics added! Almost like a hazy wall of sound and noise that just kept out from my fingers and pick. Quickly I found that if you breathed on or even looked at your bridge pickup it began to wail and create a feedback sound I would describe as electric. Lots of electric.. yes that is probably the best way to describe it.
I began playing furiously and couldn’t stop. It was simply totally inspiring like lightening running through my fingers (see sig). After god knows how long, I paused… it seemed like perhaps a storm was coming! The strong smell of ozone was in the air and that odd feeling like hair standing up on the back of your neck and that something was about to happen… Something very soon..
Being one for safety, I thought I should probably unplug everything before the storm hit. First, I think I’ll unplug my
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