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Is thing a clone? Because if it isn't this is a great sounding design!

Chicken Mode FTW!!!!

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YATS?

I believe if you watch the video at 1:12, you'll see that it is, as Mr. Deville says, YATS.

Gooped too, but white?! Special Japanese "goop" maybe?

Well that's a shame. I mean it's a nice sounding pedal. I just don't get the TS clone thing..........I mean how far can you really take it?

freq67 wrote:Well that's a shame. I mean it's a nice sounding pedal. I just don't get the TS clone thing..........I mean how far can you really take it?

Quite a long way!

I know several Boutique Boobs who make a reasonable living out of only producing Tubescreamer variants. It's remarkable how much variation you can get by just a few component changes!

jwpartain1 wrote:I believe if you watch the video at 1:12, you'll see that it is, as Mr. Deville says, YATS.

Gooped too, but white?! Special Japanese "goop" maybe?

I didn't have the patience to sit through the video, but based on 15 seconds of sounds as I jumped through, I concluded: YATS.
Thanks for citing the time where a gut-shot is available.

Nothing like a hand etched PCB for the mojo's and toan, right?

some gutshots

I think you guys miss the point that with this pedal you can dial thru a series of animals (chicken, duck, elephant, pig, maybe even a weasel?) to select a 'character' and that alone is worth the boutique price of admission.

"And the most noteworthy features of this pedal, it Character knob.
By turning this knob you can adjust the bass guitar sound to low in a liver, and TS sound system called rounded, bluesy sound dead to enjoy a variety of sound change.
(And animals are painted image and sound does not matter)"

Listening to the demo, really to confirm that it is really YATS, I noticed that this BB has missed a trick: I did something similar, with switchable clipping modes - using diodes of various types (because they can sound slightly different). However, the clipping point of each diode type can vary by volts (the LEDs I used clip at 2.3V, and the ordinary silicon diodes go over at 0.65V for example). I then used the other half of the clipping selection switch to switch in differing gain set presets for the subsequent "make up gain" stage. Switching the diodes then doesn't give a change in output level. This means that it's possible to make the diode type, and the distortion characteristics completely musician-friendly - they can change modes mid-song - if they wanted to - without having to tweak levels.

I now find that the session guys I meet tend to have (typically) seven or eight effects with them. There's almost always a Fuzz face of some kind (or a Tonebender), a Tubescreamer variant (seldom a "real" one), a wah pedal (usually a Morley or similar), a volume pedal, a compressor, a chorus pedal (the TC ones seem popular), a phaser (usually described as "unused", and most often an MXR), some kind of echo / reverb unit (digital, mostly these days) and a line send / buffer / DI box. All of them say that the distortion effect they use most is their Tubescreamer. Some of them like the boutique versions because they have more tonal variation than the plain vanilla original. I can see this "Landmighty" effort appealing to some of them, as long as the price isn't stratospheric.

I call YATS too!
- Two sets of diodes on an on/off/on type switch
- A timmy/zendrive type bass/voicing control
- Two low pass filters somewhere at the end of the circuit on an on/off/on type switch.