Shredder777
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(This review deserves its own thread...)
I bought this pedal to find a good boost to use in front of mid/high gain amps. The SD-1 has been my old standby for years, but I was looking for something with more adjustment that can still do the same/similar thing. Boost and focus lead guitar. My overall complaint with the SD-1 is that it lacks "air" on top. While it is focused, it also sucks out some presence (which may be from the buffer, or may be from circuit design.) This one had a bright control so I had to check it out! $20
Part 1-- Initial Impressions
Had a chance to test the Movall Jumpspace next to an SD-1. My amps aren't set up but I ran them into front of a clean sim.
The character knob is a hpf for the drive effect. This could be useful when layering drive onto an already overdriven amp to keep the bass cleaner.
The Jumpspace doesnt cut bass like an SD-1. It doesn't have much control over bass. It doesn't get that tweaked cocked wah mid that the SD-1 has. It has about as much gain as the SD1. Maybe a touch more. It sounds like it has the same number of drive stages. Its not a distortion, but an OD how we all think of it. This is based on a TS or SD1.
But it gives you alot of tone shaping in the upper frequencies between the Bright / Tone / Mids.
My gut feeling is that going with a standard BMT like a Wampler Triumph will give better control of bass and be easier to dial in. The bright / tone / mid layout of this pedal could allow fine tweaking of the voice. When I crank the tone control, I still hear more bass than I do with an SD1.
Its a good pedal, but it just doesn't roll off the bass when engaged like an SD1 so I'm not sure if it will help get a focused lead guitar tone. Until I'm with my amp I really can't say how it will interact, but without bass roll off it could be muddy. Compensating with more high end could leave it sounding scooped.
If you take the "character" knob out of the equation and don't use it, the Jumpspace is an "open" 3-band eq OD pedal with the controls focused on mid/treble/pres interaction instead of BMT.
Part 2 - Dialing it in A/B with an SD-1
The settings you see in the pic are as equivalent as I can make them!
This is how I run the Boss SD-1. With a little bit of gain, a little bit of treble boost, and roughly unity gain, maybe boosting a little.
Character- This is a HPF for the drive effect. What I found when AB with the SD1, is that the SD1 appears to ALSO have some of this hpf built in which lets some of the underlying notes through without distortion. (did not know this.) The setting you see on the Jumpspace roughly equivalent to the SD1. You can turn it all the way left to get rid of this effect and have distortion through the whole frequency. Or turn it clockwise to raise the hpf.
Mids- To get the mid push of the SD1, you have to run this control on full. No other way around it. This is the only way the pedal will sound like a SD1/TS type circuit. That said, you have the ability to lower the mids, but if you go down much, it doesn't sound like a mid push OD anymore.
Tone- Where you see the knob is the sweet spot to give nice balance of tone with the mids dimed. This control seems to be more versatile than the SD1. If you turn it left, it will seem to add bass and can become boomy. This is a very "active" control with alot of range.
Bright- To get the top end of an SD1, you have to roll it all the way down! It will still be a touch brighter. Just a touch. And it has the whole sweep to add even more brightness.
Gain/Vol- Roughly equivalent to SD1 gain and volume controls.
Conclusion- With mids dimed, bright on zero, and tone in the noon-2 position, this pedal can be dialed in to sound very similar to a TS/SD1. I don't have a physical tube screamer to test, but I suspect this is symmetrical clipping like the TS. (It doesn't have the focused, nasally mids of the SD1, but overall has similar eq with these settings, and lots of mid push).
With that said, there are a ton of other adjustments. If you want a pedal that can cop a Tube Screamer but can also get much brighter, this is the droid you are looking for. I needed to see if this pedal could do the lead boost thing, and it certainly can. I'm looking forward to opening it up with my real amps to see what it can do. Well made, the pots are stiff/smooth and won't move. Yadda yadda. Totally worth for $20. Rumor is that there is an internal trim pot in the original Tube Zone pedal, will have to check if this has that too. But I'm thinking its probably not worth tinkering with it further.
I bought this pedal to find a good boost to use in front of mid/high gain amps. The SD-1 has been my old standby for years, but I was looking for something with more adjustment that can still do the same/similar thing. Boost and focus lead guitar. My overall complaint with the SD-1 is that it lacks "air" on top. While it is focused, it also sucks out some presence (which may be from the buffer, or may be from circuit design.) This one had a bright control so I had to check it out! $20
Part 1-- Initial Impressions
Had a chance to test the Movall Jumpspace next to an SD-1. My amps aren't set up but I ran them into front of a clean sim.
The character knob is a hpf for the drive effect. This could be useful when layering drive onto an already overdriven amp to keep the bass cleaner.
The Jumpspace doesnt cut bass like an SD-1. It doesn't have much control over bass. It doesn't get that tweaked cocked wah mid that the SD-1 has. It has about as much gain as the SD1. Maybe a touch more. It sounds like it has the same number of drive stages. Its not a distortion, but an OD how we all think of it. This is based on a TS or SD1.
But it gives you alot of tone shaping in the upper frequencies between the Bright / Tone / Mids.
My gut feeling is that going with a standard BMT like a Wampler Triumph will give better control of bass and be easier to dial in. The bright / tone / mid layout of this pedal could allow fine tweaking of the voice. When I crank the tone control, I still hear more bass than I do with an SD1.
Its a good pedal, but it just doesn't roll off the bass when engaged like an SD1 so I'm not sure if it will help get a focused lead guitar tone. Until I'm with my amp I really can't say how it will interact, but without bass roll off it could be muddy. Compensating with more high end could leave it sounding scooped.
If you take the "character" knob out of the equation and don't use it, the Jumpspace is an "open" 3-band eq OD pedal with the controls focused on mid/treble/pres interaction instead of BMT.
Part 2 - Dialing it in A/B with an SD-1
The settings you see in the pic are as equivalent as I can make them!
This is how I run the Boss SD-1. With a little bit of gain, a little bit of treble boost, and roughly unity gain, maybe boosting a little.
Character- This is a HPF for the drive effect. What I found when AB with the SD1, is that the SD1 appears to ALSO have some of this hpf built in which lets some of the underlying notes through without distortion. (did not know this.) The setting you see on the Jumpspace roughly equivalent to the SD1. You can turn it all the way left to get rid of this effect and have distortion through the whole frequency. Or turn it clockwise to raise the hpf.
Mids- To get the mid push of the SD1, you have to run this control on full. No other way around it. This is the only way the pedal will sound like a SD1/TS type circuit. That said, you have the ability to lower the mids, but if you go down much, it doesn't sound like a mid push OD anymore.
Tone- Where you see the knob is the sweet spot to give nice balance of tone with the mids dimed. This control seems to be more versatile than the SD1. If you turn it left, it will seem to add bass and can become boomy. This is a very "active" control with alot of range.
Bright- To get the top end of an SD1, you have to roll it all the way down! It will still be a touch brighter. Just a touch. And it has the whole sweep to add even more brightness.
Gain/Vol- Roughly equivalent to SD1 gain and volume controls.
Conclusion- With mids dimed, bright on zero, and tone in the noon-2 position, this pedal can be dialed in to sound very similar to a TS/SD1. I don't have a physical tube screamer to test, but I suspect this is symmetrical clipping like the TS. (It doesn't have the focused, nasally mids of the SD1, but overall has similar eq with these settings, and lots of mid push).
With that said, there are a ton of other adjustments. If you want a pedal that can cop a Tube Screamer but can also get much brighter, this is the droid you are looking for. I needed to see if this pedal could do the lead boost thing, and it certainly can. I'm looking forward to opening it up with my real amps to see what it can do. Well made, the pots are stiff/smooth and won't move. Yadda yadda. Totally worth for $20. Rumor is that there is an internal trim pot in the original Tube Zone pedal, will have to check if this has that too. But I'm thinking its probably not worth tinkering with it further.
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