by veryzer » Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:31 pm
Oops, sorry.
First of all, I'm an incompetent player with a kid, which means I play in the basement for my pleasure and my neighbors' displeasure. I bought my first ever pedal 6 months ago. It was a tone pump purchased directly from Dave and it's the best money I ever spent. It makes my PRRI sound absolutely huge in my little room. I can't imagine a better pedal, though I decided I wanted something to both offer lower gain and boost the tp to stratospheric levels. Enter the half gainer. I found a good price on a used one on tgp (I apologize if that makes a posting on this site in bad taste. I actually asked on tgp if this would be kosher and people basically said Dave would be only too happy to help) and immediately jumped on it....after all, everyone and their mother has been lauding this thing. Like I said in the initial post, the sound is tasty--fat and smooth, but I'm getting this goddamned dirty, farty speaker-type breakup on the attack. My two other Barber pedals continue to make sweet love to my PRRI, but the hg is having an issue...I don't get it. The fella I bought it from said he used it as his go-to od for over six months without a problem and I'd love to trust him. Triviani over at tgp said he had the same issue with one of his amps, though he failed to respond when asked which amp was the culprit. Please help me complete my Barber dirt board!!!!!!!!!
Cort M800 (PRS hollowbody copy) w/ Fralin PAFs, Crybaby 535Q, half gainer, tone pump, dirty bomb, small stone, nova repeater, jamman stereo, princeton reverb ri w/ tone tubby ceramic