ANALOG.MAN

Groupie Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 72

Does anybody have any experience with any Analog.Man gear?

http://www.analogman.com/

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:20 am

No experience with it, but I have been looking for an old square wave type fuzz sound like the one used on "Can't get no Satisfaction". I had a couple of fuzz boxes years ago that made this sound. I will check these guys out. It looks like they will have something.

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:10 pm

This is one of the boxes that I had. It was sold under a lot of different names, including LRE. The little tone select switch offered two different sounds. One of them was a real buzz saw effect and the other more like the Big Muff maxed out.

I also checked out the fuzz boxes on Analog Man and the sound samples are great. The site is a little hard to locate everything but worth poking around.

I fond another post by the owner of the company and he is really info vintage fuzz tones. I suspect he makes a good product.

Here is a link to the tread which includes a big pic of his personal vintage collection.

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/archive/index.php/t-173801.html

Groupie Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 72

I've already got a number of different distortion pedals. I was looking to replace my chorus pedal. I had a bunch of Dan Electro boxes and I'm more and more realizing that they really aren’t as good as I originally thought. The Cool Cat chorus is the last to go. I just bought the Standard Chorus from Analog.Man last night. I'm hoping it will be worth the $230 I'm paying for it.

The drive pedals or distortion that I have now are the Rat, Fuzz Face (w/Hendrix Mod), Kelley treble booster & MXR Distortion +. It would be nice to get that chainsaw type that you're talking about that the Stones used.

Groupie Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 72

Check these FX out if you are in search of some alternative FUZZ or distortion sounds.

http://www.javaboost.com/index.html

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:24 pm

BannedFromEARTH wrote:

Check these FX out if you are in search of some alternative FUZZ or distortion sounds.

http://www.javaboost.com/index.html

Thanks for the tip, but not what I am looking for. The Peppermint from Analog Man is pretty cool though.

Good luck with the chorus and let us know how it turned out. I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Groupie Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 72

For sure. I can't wait to hear what this chorus will sound like. As time goes on the Dan Electro that I have just makes me sick! The sound is not consistent. Last night at practice I was just miserable with it.

After I get done with this retro-fit I'm going to have a whole crud load of pedals that I might want to get rid of.

Groupie Joined: Nov 06, 2007 Posts: 72

Well I don't want to say that I'm disappointed with the ANALOG.MAN chorus but it did not make the huge change in my sound that I was thinking I would get.

Things that I do like about it:

The robotized sound that I would get from that Dan Electro (Or any other mass produced chorus) that it's replacing is history. The tone is much better and the chorus effect is much smoother.

The level drop that the stereo chorus was giving me is gone. Levels are pretty much the same with the pedal in the loop our out and when it's in the loop and being turned off and on there is no level changes. This was the big problem I had from before.

The controls are quit a bit more variable. At full blast is can sound almost like a leslie effect.

Overall I'm happy with it. It fixed every problem I had with the old chorus. It looks very nice. The workmanship is top notch. It almost has that hand made quality. This is something that you will not get from a BOSS box.