Anyone else totally obsessed with the Torns Peaker?

[Officer Bukowski]

The white spider sounds pretty sweet. I'm a sucker for the oscillation switch.

Univalve I've noticed it doesn't dominate the mix by any means but it's not nearly as bad as a muff IMO. I think it works for my band because it's bright and loud. Also running my fuck od after it seems to help. Even if it totally sucked in a band I'd have to keep it for recording and playing at home though.

Behndy I guess I ask that but really I'm just wondering if it would sound good in general. It seems like just about all pedals are made for guitar in the first place. We are kinda spoiled.

[01010111]

huurrrrrrrrrrrrm. 'kay. i'm gonna admit it. i get jealous of y'all Thin Stringeded Brethren having so many damn options on pedals. there ARE an amazing amount of options for bassists now in the Land Of Signal Destruction....... but still. only Devi i ever liked a lot was the Super Massive Black Hole.

doooooooooooo y'all ever think "is that going to be any good on guitar?" when you see effects pedz that are interesting?

and yah. Silver Rose is the first thing i've seen of hers for awhile that i got hard over. well, that and the Heaven's Gate. meeeeeeeeeeOW.

Yeah, whenever I see stuff that's tailored specifically for an instrument that's not the guitar I wonder how it would sound with a gutar running into it. Usually the mxr bass pedals But yeah I can feel for ya, i played bass for a long time until decided that I needed an instrument with a wider range. But those bass tones still call to me.

The dod bass flanger I tried on guitar didn't work out, the center frequency or the flange was too low so it sounded like it was only sweeping below the signal and not above. I always wanted to try the supermassive black hole on guitar but never had the chance, isn't that a mountainking electronics circuit, though?

[behndy]

moar range? MOAR STRIIIIIIIIIINGS!!!!!

[Jero]

I always wanted to try the supermassive black hole on guitar but never had the chance, isn't that a mountainking electronics circuit, though?

Yeap! You can get the decked out version from mountainking...it's called the Magnetar.

[CaptainWampum]

i had a tp and white spider. i really liked the sound by itself but both were not cutting through the mix with the band.

This is weird to me. I played in a 7 piece with two other guitarists and the TP helped me really really cut through.

[masked elwood]

i have the old E13 torn's peaker plus. i use the fuk outta it while recording but i can't use it through my live rig due it having wayyyyyyyyy too much high end that i can't get rid of. but that's just because of the way i run things on me live rig and has little to do with the pedal.
i've used it so much that i had to put it away for awhile.........so this reminds me that i need to bust it out again..

[grindonomicon]

Does the stand alone TP pedal sound 'better' than as half of a Shoegazer? Cuz I didn't like it in the 'Gazer I had. Couldn't dial in any of those cranky amp sounds or sweet velcro low-gain fuzz.

My Seppuku Octave Drone kicks the Shoegazer I had to the curb and down the sewer.

[bigchiefbc]

I had a TP for a while, but I honestly prefer the Aenima. I think there's only like 1 component different between them, but the Ae just felt like it had more bawlz, ya know? Similar sound, more bawlz.

[Astricii]

Does the stand alone TP pedal sound 'better' than as half of a Shoegazer? Cuz I didn't like it in the 'Gazer I had. Couldn't dial in any of those cranky amp sounds or sweet velcro low-gain fuzz.

My Seppuku Octave Drone kicks the Shoegazer I had to the curb and down the sewer.

Did you adjust your guitars tone and volume settings? That's a big part of it.

If you were running it after a buffered pedal that would kill it for you too. Buffers/active pickups change the make up of your signal and I notice you can't really get volume knob clean up with a buffer before a fuzz.

[SmallEQ]

I saw the name "Torns Peaker" for years thinking it was "Tom's Peaker". Then once I realized it was actually "Torns Peaker" it took me another couple of months to get the joke.

I'm Quick!

[Birthday Boy]

It's a great pedal at what it does; trebly, trashy punk and odd, broken overdrives (last one with the guitar volume back). That's what I've been using it for at least, but I mainly play a Tele. It's different, pretty compressed, fuller and less abrasive with a Les Paul, and has a lovely, squishy attack. More exciting with single coils to me though. It's pretty sensitive regarding what's in front of it. I was just thinking of trying to trade it for a low gain overdrive, cause I don't have one right now. I'd definately miss it though.

i had a tp and white spider. i really liked the sound by itself but both were not cutting through the mix with the band.

This is weird to me. I played in a 7 piece with two other guitarists and the TP helped me really really cut through.

Wouldn't it have a lot to do with how the rest of the band was EQ'd? Treble doesn't really cut through treble, but if the other stuff is lower it gets a "niche" in the mix..

[sylnau]

I wish the current TP would have the second footswitch for oscillation (like the old effector 13 or the oohlala version).
Never tried one... but, it's on my list of thing to try.

[ohsojayadeva]

I had a TP for a while, but I honestly prefer the Aenima. I think there's only like 1 component different between them, but the Ae just felt like it had more bawlz, ya know? Similar sound, more bawlz.

One resistor difference between the two. This can easily be made switchable. I can't recall the exact value, but I know that the resistor in the Aenima is 10x the value in the TP. I had an Aenima, didn't bond. I modded it to TP, still didn't bond. I passed it along to a fellow noisemaker who has been tickled with it. Different strokes.

[CaptainWampum]

I had a TP for a while, but I honestly prefer the Aenima. I think there's only like 1 component different between them, but the Ae just felt like it had more bawlz, ya know? Similar sound, more bawlz.

Aenima's just way smoother I think. TP's got a trashy wiggly thing going on.

[Rygot]

I loved the TP and always meant to get one, I only had it in a shoegazer and I wasn't a big fan of it combined.

...one day.