Just got the chunkiest of metal tones with the IR-X using the Timmy in front of it. I was kinda struggling with the attack and clarity of the IR-X by itself and even with a TS-9 or Tumnus in front for drop-tuned heavy rhythm tones. But the Timmy is an absolute revelation!
The bass cut on the Timmy gets removes the bloatyness in the lows and low-mids that the BE channel has with anything below D on the 6th string. For anyone else struggling with drop-tined tones, using anything that has some sort of a bass-cut knob in fromt of the BE channel is the secret sauce. I’m guessing the Buxom Boost might fare well in this scenario.
Also, with the Timmy’s treble wide open (note that the knobs on the Timmy work backwards), I didn’t even have to crank the treble on the IR-X much (unlike with the TS-9) to get that string-y attack that usually 2203-style circuits have. Maybe we don’t need that IR-JEL afterall…
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