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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT - Wattson efy-6 fuzz

From: gino wong <wonggster@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-03-29

With your permission Bernie.  Depending on what you are doing compressors vary.  If you want a noticeable compression to amp up your lead guitar sound and do the normal stuff, you could look at a Pigtronix Philosophers Tone. It is not the most subtle and true but its workmanlike for the guitar and one of the few circuits that are not copies of the MXR or Ross, If you go boutique there are builders that make great stuff but before you go there you should become a n FX Anorak, Otaku, Nerd.  I don't use compressors much myself.

If you need a compressor for recording get an FMR RNC compressor or a Neve Portico or anything Fritz Doddy tells you to. 

Re the Watson
I don't use any fuzz that scoops mids cause I'll want to put them back. If they are copying the Shin -E unit  Aka Duo Fuzz or Super fuzz, those are classics. They only ever worked for me at volume when I could back off the ambienrt mics.  It's all taste.

The best guitar pre - od in my opinion is the Super Gainiac made by Milos Popvic in Serbia at MP Custom FX.  I cascade parallel or inverse switch my germanium od - pre with my silicon unit often, I now use a Germaniac by MP.  I also have an extended hybrid transistor-diode, optical and diode selectable, octave, boost and sustain unit called Grunfiac.  It is all boutique btw. 

best

Gino




On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Robert rmrmax@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Hi Bernie,

I tried to send you this link directly, but it seems that you no longer have the email
address that I used for you around 4 years ago.

One of the reasons I am considering this pedal is because the knobs are all on
the front. Do you think I'll be "ok" with this as opposed to the Wattson FY-6, or should I stay with your recommendation ?

Also, would you or anyone else care to recommend a current boutique Compressor / Sustainer pedal that is way better than the Boss CS-3 (recent vintage) that I already
have.

Thanks for your opinion(s)...

Robert

http://www.analoguehaven.com/wattsonclassicelectronics/efy-6/

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On Sat, 3/26/16, tron400@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Electroharmonix Mel9
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com: Saturday, March 26, 2016, 8:11 AM


I recommend the Wattson FY-6 Classic Fuzz. I have
one of the originals that was labeled "Superfuzz".
It looks and sounds exactly like my old bluish-grey Univox.
I've tried some other Superfuzz clones and, to me, they
didn't make the grade.

Bernie

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n a l o g u e h a v e n : w a t t s o n c l a s s i c e l e
c t r o n i c s



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n a l o g u e h a v e n : w a t t s o n c l a s s i c
... capturing
the precise tone of the original classic fuzz pedals from
shin-ei and univox was our primary goal in designing the
wattson classic fuzz fy-6.


View on www.analoguehaven...


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