Magic Meter Review - Preliminary

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Magic Meter Review - Preliminary

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i received my magic meter today.
i have played with it for about 15 minutes with my granger m45 and a hamer studio with lollar low winds humbuckers.
i know after a few seconds if a pedal is yay or nay - this is yay!
highly tweakable with many many tones in there.
all the controls are interactive so you could mess with this for quite a long time and never hear the same tone twice.
very quiet. i did not notice any RFI.
eq - very useful. i turned the treble and mids down quite a bit and the bass up to suit my taste.
lots of articulation and wicked bite on tap. no mud. like my algal bloom.
easy to use as a light to mid boost adding some crunch and pleasant compression.
not totally transparent per se but pretty damn close if you want.
dials up into light through heavy overdrive and then onward into liquid lightning fuzz easily.
the fuzz can be as thick or as thin as you want. controlled or out of control.
gain 2 (input) seems to me to be the driving control in terms of overall character of the gain.
clip 2 (input) goes from raspy spit to full bloom.
i think gain 1 and clip 1 complement the input side as opposed to being the defining controls but i have not spent enough time with it to say.
the frequency multiplier switch is nuts. notes and chords rise up, focus with a fiery snarl, sizzle, rip, and then settle back down.
i guess a bit like a lightning strike you could say.
the setting that really lit me up was with my neck pickup - sizzling, biting, ringing, singing, with tons of sustain.
a bit like brian may meets tony iommi meets meth.
it is a pedal that anyone could use - blues/rock/metal/doom/etc. players.
cool pedal indeed!
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after 15 more minutes, stepping back, turning up the amp, and playing with guitar tone and volume,
it sounds awesome.
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Tom it's happened again, someone got in and stole a MM... That's cool F.O.F. I'm just wondering how an ILF noob scored such an awesome pedal??? Did you trade Tom some ball bearings??? :idk:

Tom can you make the Charge Toggle a Stomp??? Seems like I would be able to utilize that more effectively...
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as long as you say noob with a smile :)
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faceful-of-fuzz wrote:as long as you say noob with a smile :)


Oh yeah totes... I'm just joshin Tom...
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Sounds Awesome!!! :love:
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Need moar demos.
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sonidero wrote:Tom it's happened again, someone got in and stole a MM... That's cool F.O.F. I'm just wondering how an ILF noob scored such an awesome pedal???


:lol: It all comes down to asking and timing!

He asked nicely, and I had just finished a Magic Meter that was going to go out for review. So I decided I'd rather hook someone up. :)*
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Tom Dalton wrote: :lol: It all comes down to asking and timing!


True dat... I'm preemptively asking nicely for next time timing matters... :p

I got the Blue Bomb Phantom Flower today to tide me over... :trippy:
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