Brad Davis Wants His Creepy Fingers Inside You.

[Gunner Recall]

Fuzz made by Brad Davis of Fu Manchu fame blah blah blah
http://www.myspace.com/creepyfingerseffects

So I think it's about time I checked out one of these babies...not looking for anything special, though the doomidrive/harakiri/pink elephant did catch my eye.

I'm digging through the 35 page thread over at DAM, but I'd like to hear opinions from some of you fine folk if you have any.

[laxlover_bill369]

I can not belive the doomdive is a fuzz omg

[Gunner Recall]

On a second run through his myspace the fuzzfight seems interesting.

Fuck it. I want them all.

What's the deal with the point to point "upgrade" option for extra bones? Does it add any mojo?

[Derelict78]

[hazelwould]

If your looking at the doomidrive, I'd also check out the Ox Fuzz. The dude from Odis makes em. It's like a souped up fuzz face with more gain and tons of bottom. There like $150 as well. I've heard good things about 'em. I think it's just myspace.com/oxfuzz.

[Gunner Recall]

probably ups resale value and thats about it... PTP is the hot "in" thing right now

i do have to admit a couple of my PTP pedals are extremely awesome though and there is something satisfying about looking at a pedal built that way. Its very cool.

Does it make it sound any better? Unlikely.

Yea I figured as much...I think the ptp work looks amazing and I understand the extra work, but I can't justify the price on my end.

Thanks for the heads up on the oxfuzz, I'll add it to my "list".

One of the things I liked about the doomidrive is that it isn't really a fuzz,
more a very old school dirty boost/od with the ability to dial loads of low end that can bump you into fuzz territory when stacked or used with a dirty amp.

The doomi is at the top of my list right now, though I do love Brad's take on the fuzzrite.

[Gunner Recall]

No current owners eh? Better get in before he starts having to create "lists" for his pedals

I want a doomi but the gf prefers the fuzzfight...
She gets a say in the matter because she'll be funding it mostly. (She lost a bet...all of our bets involve designer labels and fuzz pedals)

[Scruffie]

Where is this pedal from? If it seems rare... it probably isn't... ala zvex... (I made a FFact clone for £22-7... as apposed to the £129 price tag...)

[Gunner Recall]

The doomi? It's based on the univox unidrive from the 70's using the original parts with added tweak of bass control.
DAM and DBA have done a few one offs...and it has been suggested the skreddy screwdriver is loosely based on it, but I'm not aware of any proper in-production clones.

I'm sure a cheaper one could be done, but this is true of almost any pedal.

[Scruffie]

Yea except DSP, my only worry was like the D*A*M tone bender Mk II clone that was going in the thousand pound mark... the simmilar to original style casing mighttttt have taken it to £100... but not £1000...

Since building my own effects I question alot, as alot seems to be a glorified something or other (this is not the case with devi... dunno where the designs came from)

I shall look up the univox though.

[Gunner Recall]

Just paid up on a doomidrive...I'll be back with results once it comes in.

I'm hoping it jives well with my devi collection

[hazelwould]

Just paid up on a doomidrive...I'll be back with results once it comes in.

I'm hoping it jives well with my devi collection

Damn dude! Let is know! I've alwas had my eye on his superfuzz clone. Maybe one day.

[dorfmeister]

Just paid up on a doomidrive...I'll be back with results once it comes in.

I'm hoping it jives well with my devi collection

Any thoughts on the Doomidrive?

[Gunner Recall]

*I had a nice long response and I accidently navigated away from the page without submitting it...let's try this again from memory*

The doomidrive is a spot on unidrive clone (besides the addition of the bottom control), with all original parts/transistors etc blahblah (take that for what it's worth).
The point is Brad's work is clean and impressive, and he's easy to deal with.

When you first plug in a doomidrive, you are tempted to dime the drive and bottom knobs for ultra doomy sludgey riffs...and it does this excellently. It is the doomidrive after all.
But if you rollback on the knobs a bit you have access to a really old school overdrive/boost (the unidrive was a rumored secret weapon of page/hendrix in the early 70's).
Plenty of "volume on tap", and bottom knob lets you dial in anything ranging from treble boost to full on fat/bottom boosts.

Add it to a slightly distorted/on the verge of breaking up amp and you get an interesting fuzzy/distortion hybrid sorta thing going on.
It also stacks very well with fuzz, I like adding it at the end of a dirt chain to goose the signal.