sevenSHARPnine wrote:V_____ wrote:Really? My singing tree sounds very dark and...I'm not even sure how to describe what it sounds like compared to an amp. But I have one of the old pre-mellowtone singing tree fx overdrives with four knobs, so it might sound totally different from the lite one.
Does anyone know how the two compare in sound? Maybe I should try the newer one, too.
FWIW, mine's a 3-knobber, I've never tried a Lite. My ST definiely has some chunk to it, but I wouldn't call it dark. It's most definitely not lacking in the low end though. Yours has a tone knob does it not?
Yup. The controls are clipping, volume, gain, and tone.
Strangely the tone is much more effective with a battery power than with a 9v supply (which makes it sound brighter in general to my ears). Some people might consider this weird but I consider it a bonus feature

If you push a lot of bass into my singing tree version it starts to sound like your amp is exploding.
For example:
http://venter.bandcamp.com/track/john-tuckerOf course that is also stacked with something else too...I think it's a Danelectro CC Drive or Transparent Overdrive. I could check the mix files.
But most of the impact is actually an EHX stereo polyphase in envelope down mode slamming the Singing Tree with extra bass frequencies on every string attack.
This is me fucking around with a rather non-standard setup. A step sequencer is being fed into the pickups of my guitar in series and then out through the STFXOD. It's a weird setup but it still has kind of a similar.... I don't know exactly how to describe it...explodey quality to it in this one too.
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/cjmventer/v-disastercaster-demonstration-with-mochika-2-and-singing-tree-fxod[/soundcloud]
That one is just the signal being sent through the overdrive into a JCM800/Hiwatt Hybrid head on the "clean" channel (lol, yeah, clean...sure)