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I forgot about the Elements and Black Forest... I own both and they fill this role pretty well. I actually use the Black Forest as a synth preamp and then slam it with a Mini or an Elements
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Yeah Ive been using the Forest for this, but I want to go back to using it as a high gain dirt in conjunction with other fuzzes, pkus im an asshole and I want more eq options than are ever necessary.

As much as I want a PYears, I'm probably never going to be able to afford to get one down here.

Thats actually a decent price, Mr Lasombres, but no way can orange justify that retail price.
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sorry but what does FAC mean ?
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drolo wrote:sorry but what does FAC mean ?
I don't think there is an official explanation of the term. Probably something like Frequency Adjustment Control. Its just a series of caps that allow you to alter the input capacitance of the amplifier thus emphasizing treble or bass frequencies.
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hmm I see .. first time I heard that term, thx :-)
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I find it useful in a fuzz or dirt in general but in an EQ you have the bass control already to deal with the chugga :-)
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Are EQ pedals actually worth giving up a pedal space? I recently thought about taking off my Dittox2 in place of a EQ pedal between my 2 dirts. What yall say?
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drolo wrote:I find it useful in a fuzz or dirt in general but in an EQ you have the bass control already to deal with the chugga :-)
FAC is on the front end of an Orange/Matamp preamp. The EQ is after a few gain stages I believe. So one shapes the texture of the gain and the other shapes the overall tone.
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sergiomunoz74 wrote:Are EQ pedals actually worth giving up a pedal space? I recently thought about taking off my Dittox2 in place of a EQ pedal between my 2 dirts. What yall say?
I find them quite useful after dirt, especially fuzz as they allow you to change the sound drastically. I recently built myself a double eq pedal (incidentally a 3-band bax) because I was constantly bowing down to go from scooped to boosted mids :-)
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In the spirit of my recent effort posting I just want to say you can all go FAC yourselves

Sometimes I think I want an old Graphic Fuzz again, because that sounded awesome boosted. I don't know if it's worth the space but then you at least have some OD in your EQ
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drolo wrote:
sergiomunoz74 wrote:Are EQ pedals actually worth giving up a pedal space? I recently thought about taking off my Dittox2 in place of a EQ pedal between my 2 dirts. What yall say?
I find them quite useful after dirt, especially fuzz as they allow you to change the sound drastically. I recently built myself a double eq pedal (incidentally a 3-band bax) because I was constantly bowing down to go from scooped to boosted mids :-)
That actually sounds really fun, I wonder how an eq would effect my pedals. I really like the idea of getting radically different tones, currently I use an even anguish and rat. I really like the rat for more heavy distortion/fuzz and the even anguish as an fuzzy OD. The only problem is that the Rat is really really dark and stacking the rat on a lower od setting plus the even anguish together are much too harsh. Having something to balance it out would be nice for stacking and brightening up mah rat.

I'm interested in your double EQ think, mind if I send you a PM?
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don't mind at all
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