so. ab-synth.

[mathias]

Just remember your settings.

This. Also, I keep a small notebook by my gear so if I find a new setting, or have a combination of pedals set just right, I can jot it down right quick.

I played my absynth(5k) with guitar yesterday (usually use bass), and I couldn't stop. I fuzzing love this pedal

I can't stop playing my Algal Bloom. Can't wait for my AB-Synth to get here, but I think I've said that in every thread.

The notebook tip is great. Thanks!

[Jero]

No problem! It helps some times, with new sounds and you're not used to the settings, or if you have cats that are rambunctious....or if you have a mini basketball hoop with breakaway rim in your living room and use it daily.

[julius_deane]

Just remember your settings.

Part of my gear box: masking tape and marker.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Just remember your settings.

Part of my gear box: masking tape and marker.

Yeah, I have planned to put in use transparency sheets.

In general, I undersign the Phenomenon of the Magical Fluctuation of Sounds that Tom was referring also to: some days stuff act differently, funnily enough. Especially with old gear, ge-diodes and tube amps can be really temperamental, literally: when the gear warms up it sounds just right. But when it's been onstage through the night, it can sound different from what it's supposed to when You finally walk onstage Yourself. Maybe my old amp just didn't like waiting for me.

With pedals the Magical Sounds Days are also depending on the knob tweaking order, really, which can be really confusing. Devi TBD and some delays have taught me to go back to some well remembered basic settings and start tweaking again from there, if it doesn't seem to work first. With AB-Synth, for example, there's also the guitar vol control rolling up/down that can become just hard if not impossible to remember right without marking it on Your axe. It's more than likely to be hard to dial in exactly the right tones if using the volume control of Your guitar AND then tweaking them knobs. Easy to get lost in there. I have, once or twice but the sonic journeys have been thoroughly pleasant adventures for me.

[DJFNB]

I'm glad I found this thread. I have a similar relation to my Ab-Synth, (that I love, I keep at the same spot & safe on my board Jazz Bass>EHX HOG(on bypass 80% of the time) >Ab-Synth...) It seems to be hyper sensitive to radio interference and random "spirit" based aural phenomenon, which in turn effects how and when I use the pedal. I was actually just about to e-mail TD@FH to ask if this is normal and/or what may cause this. Also I should mention this has been most apparent, in two particular places I've practiced, formerly in an old warehouse bldg that housed a jazz radio station and many random industrial and commercial workshops and my present spot which is directly adjacent to a major interstate. So it would make sense that the phenomenon does not start with the AB, but is perpetuated and multiplied. However, NOTHING sets ANY of it off like the Ab-Synth.

While I'm here... I love my Ab-Synth, I would have gone 5k if they were around back then.

and

In my mind, a phrase I need on more bumpers...

T Dalton is my Charlton Heston!