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Just put some money down on a Heavy Machine......and immediately started regretting it because the Magnetar began calling.........damn......gonna stick to my guns with the Heavy Machine, though. It's called to me for a while.

Falselight wrote:Hey guys quick question,

I just bought a Tectonic Shift on ebay. How do these compare with the Megalith? I play guitar and I tune to drop A and play through a Matamp Gt120 and an Electric VU120. I play grind and doom mostly.

Thanks!

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When I got my Tectonic Shift in the mail I had to repair the shoddy soldering then played it and posted it that evening.
The megalith I've bought and sold several and it is useful and truly unique where the tectonic was a combination of two pedals that sounded OK but not life changing.
Megalith=gamechanger

Ok, I got a question for all you fellas with a megalith. I've owned one for close to 4 months and I like to set my megalith (on bass) to slope 4, notch 11/max, shift 3, output 7 (max before it starts to sound lamed) input 10 (1 short of max) and more heavy to 7( Pretty much the highest I conceivably set everything without losing anything I don't know I need).
I'm currently using BEAD(no G) strings from a 5 string set, tuned DEAD (standard except the Low B string raised 2 whole steps)

Seams crazy right? Like why the fuck would someone tighten their lowest string like that much? and let me just say it does cause me problems having been learning scales on standard tuning for the last 2 years.

buy holy fuck I love the sound it makes when I bash down around on the 8-16 frets with my thumb and then I like to control the vibration with my thumb after hitting a note, or bash down on certain frets or both to create crazy harmonic screams.

I wish I knew the lingo better so I could give you a better Idea of whats going on or had a clip or something but I'm kind of hoping this is what everyone does because I'm starting to get the feeling that "I'm doing it wrong" like I'm abusing the megalith/not using it in the way it's been glorified and there are other ways to get the effect I'm finding or even worse that I shouldn't be doing these things on a bass because in a band mix the guitarist would need those freqs or something... IDK BE KIND IM A NOOB

ps. I just realized I'm tuned DEAD

Your numbers confuse. Are you talking in o'clocks?

MEC wrote:Your numbers confuse. Are you talking in o'clocks?

no number of marks, in o'clocks: Output 1, more heavy 1(and always on), input 4, slope 10, notch 5, shift 3

Ah! I like the Megalith A LOT better with the Input down around 9 o'clock.
Other than that, I just adjust everything else to taste depending on what I'm using it for.

Right now (with guitar) I have it:

Output- 2
More Heavy- 9 (always on)
Input- 9-10
Slope- 12
Notch- 3
Shift- 2

I agree with MEC, I use mine with a pretty low input. Most of my main basses are all active, and hitting it with too hot of a signal will get mushy.

What exactly was your question?

excane wrote:I agree with MEC, I use mine with a pretty low input. Most of my main basses are all active, and hitting it with too hot of a signal will get mushy.

Everyone says low input but i can't stand having it at less than 2 o'clock but I prefer 4 o'clock (which is just a lil to much) then rolling back the volume a tad. Then I can roll it back for a lil more clean or crank it for all the Fuzzy goodness it can produce.

excane wrote:What exactly was your question?

Anyone else do shit like this?

and by that I mean cranking most the settings and producing huge harmonic screams by either striking the right frets with your thumb and/or reducing the amount of vibration with your thumb.

I bought both. Got the tectonic shift on ebay and I got one of the Megalith Ultras. Now selling the tectonic shift since the Megalith is the heaviest fuzz Ive ever had/heard. Absolutely crushing. The tectonic shift doesnt compare. Its way too huge and just sounds ok.

Necrosis18 wrote:Anyone else do shit like this?

and by that I mean cranking most the settings and producing huge harmonic screams by either striking the right frets with your thumb and/or reducing the amount of vibration with your thumb.

To be honest, not really.

It's fun to dick around with in a noise/sludge/experimental setting, but for jams and playing with the band I find myself backing off most of the controls that would turn my sound to muddy shit.

excane wrote:
To be honest, not really.

It's fun to dick around with in a noise/sludge/experimental setting, but for jams and playing with the band I find myself backing off most of the controls that would turn my sound to muddy shit.

Definitely!

Falselight wrote:I bought both. Got the tectonic shift on ebay and I got one of the Megalith Ultras. Now selling the tectonic shift since the Megalith is the heaviest fuzz Ive ever had/heard. Absolutely crushing. The tectonic shift doesnt compare. Its way too huge and just sounds ok.

I love my TS, it's friggin' awesome.
That being said, I still pretty much want every Mountainking pedal

excane wrote:

Necrosis18 wrote:Anyone else do shit like this?

and by that I mean cranking most the settings and producing huge harmonic screams by either striking the right frets with your thumb and/or reducing the amount of vibration with your thumb.

To be honest, not really.

It's fun to dick around with in a noise/sludge/experimental setting, but for jams and playing with the band I find myself backing off most of the controls that would turn my sound to muddy shit.

The last couple of days I've been experimenting and it's not hard to do what I'm talking about without getting muddy. You can achieve everything i was talking about at almost any settings. The stickler is the input can't be below 8 o clock or they become insignificant but they are still there, at 2 o clock they become prominent. I like to keep it on 4 o'clock though, that's where the magic is. I would say that it's not muddy but I'm tuned tight 2 tones if you were in down tuning you probably wouldn't be able to get anything nice sounding.

Bluebeard>Megalith kicks serious ass.
I need a volume pedal to clamp down on the noise with now.
I've got my main sounds covered for fuzz, legit.
I might pick up a Rollback soon, looks like it it'll come in handy with the Behemoth when I want some extra grunt.
As well the Megalith and the SB.

Yeah I think I'm selling some stuff to get a Rollback. Isn't the Rollback just used to make two different distortion/od tones? you set it up so it's less saturated when you click it on, then you click it off and you have your heavy distortion tone? kind of like setting up different settings without physically bending over to frig around with the knobs?