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Theres a lot of history in my GAS for this pedal, I borrowed CDog's one after I got my AC15 and it just made everything sound better with it on, I tried to pry it from his hands and he wouldn't be swayed so I've been desperately waiting for Prymaxe to get them back in stock for 6+ months now. Was checking their site after new years and WOOT they had some, so I "PULLED THE TRIGGER" and it arrived today.

Had a bit of a play with all my guitars thru it tonight after tea and I'm super stoked, it seems like it has more gain than I remember, but MAN, it sounds great, exactly what I was after, does the traditional treble booster sounds, but in the hifi mode its a really nice transparent overdrive that can seriously push the front end (oooerrrr!).

I dare say its sparkley purple sexiness shall be a keeper, its going to take pride of place as the first pedal on my board :)

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Wooo! :)

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What's the other switch for?

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jeremyb wrote:Theres a lot of history in my GAS for this pedal, I borrowed CDog's one after I got my AC15 and it just made everything sound better with it on, I tried to pry it from his hands and he wouldn't be swayed so I've been desperately waiting for Prymaxe to get them back in stock for 6+ months now. Was checking their site after new years and WOOT they had some, so I "PULLED THE TRIGGER" and it arrived today.

Had a bit of a play with all my guitars thru it tonight after tea and I'm super stoked, it seems like it has more gain than I remember, but MAN, it sounds great, exactly what I was after, does the traditional treble booster sounds, but in the hifi mode its a really nice transparent overdrive that can seriously push the front end (oooerrrr!).

I dare say its sparkley purple sexiness shall be a keeper, its going to take pride of place as the first pedal on my board :)

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You can usually buy direct from HBE if you need anything in future.

Just email them. :) pedals@homebrewelectronics.com

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Eruera wrote:What's the other switch for?
Its a 3 position EQ :)
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otisredding wrote: You can usually buy direct from HBE if you need anything in future.

Just email them. :) pedals@homebrewelectronics.com
Nice, good to know! Prymaxe do great discounts tho :)
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Nice one, JB! Way to point out the obvious but it looks like it's +positive+ centre power required so becareful with your Fuel Tank Jnr. Might need one of these: http://ampshop.co.nz/products/t-rex-ora ... rter-cable

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remember Cdogs sounding AMAZING at the Gearfest I went to.
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MogwaiBoy wrote:Nice one, JB! Way to point out the obvious but it looks like it's +positive+ centre power required so becareful with your Fuel Tank Jnr. Might need one of these: http://ampshop.co.nz/products/t-rex-ora ... rter-cable
Yarrrr, checked that thankfully!! Running on battery til I can get one of those from Ryan :mental:
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Could yer not just swap the wires on the DC socket, or is it PCB mount?

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Eruera wrote:Could yer not just swap the wires on the DC socket, or is it PCB mount?
You could, but its positive ground so I don't know how it would affect things!
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You'll need a dedicated -9V supply for this (aka 'positive ground') Wont play nicely with normal pedals in a daisy chain

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Cdog wrote:You'll need a dedicated -9V supply for this (aka 'positive ground') Wont play nicely with normal pedals in a daisy chain
I'm all good, I have enough isolated outputs to cover it :)
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Eruera wrote:Could yer not just swap the wires on the DC socket, or is it PCB mount?
You could, but its positive ground so I don't know how it would affect things!
It's not different than one of them cables, I'm pretty sure they don't have a voltage inverter in them, they just cross over the +ve and -ve between the two plugs.

So long as you remember to keep it on its own supply (or shared with other +ve earth) then it'd be fine.

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