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MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 12:11 am
by tchen
i know, i know... another "how do i get the my bloody valentine sound" thread...

but not really... im not trying to cop the sound, i was just CURIOUS what fuzz pedal people thought "sometimes" resembles?
i think i read that its actually just an acoustic maxed out through a fender bassman!? amazing... but still just curious what style fuzz people would compare it to?

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 12:15 am
by Blurillaz
Live at least, it's a rather obscure fuzz pedal on that song.. I believe it's the Vorg/Pearl Warpsound? It's tone control is strange as it works akin to a wah... Sadly they are rather rare-ish and go for a high price nowadays..

Tho since you've reinterested me in it I'll have to find a schematic and have someone clone it :p

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 12:58 am
by Wizard
Blurillaz wrote:Live at least, it's a rather obscure fuzz pedal on that song.. I believe it's the Vorg/Pearl Warpsound? It's tone control is strange as it works akin to a wah... Sadly they are rather rare-ish and go for a high price nowadays..

Tho since you've reinterested me in it I'll have to find a schematic and have someone clone it :p


i'm totally into that, keep me in the loop.

Honestly,

run an acoustic through the Melxowtone 2 and an old 80's digital reverb rack jawn and you'll get pretty close.


the melx 2 is an awesome shoegaze fuzz.

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 1:36 am
by hazelwould
Wizard wrote:
Blurillaz wrote:Live at least, it's a rather obscure fuzz pedal on that song.. I believe it's the Vorg/Pearl Warpsound? It's tone control is strange as it works akin to a wah... Sadly they are rather rare-ish and go for a high price nowadays..

Tho since you've reinterested me in it I'll have to find a schematic and have someone clone it :p


i'm totally into that, keep me in the loop.

Honestly,

run an acoustic through the Melxowtone 2 and an old 80's digital reverb rack jawn and you'll get pretty close.


the melx 2 is an awesome shoegaze fuzz.

:mad: Mee Needz MELXZZ'ZSs

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:07 am
by IG88
don't know how he got the sound on record. live he gets it with an acoustic through a vorg warpsound and a cornish p2. colm plays guitar on the track as does debbie so that beefens things up considerably. the vorg really isn't all that great sounding so if you're thinking of paying 400 bucks for one and you'll cop that sound you won't.

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 11:03 am
by pothole
a square font green big muff get's fairly close.

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 3:24 pm
by askthedust
A Soda Meiser will get you exactly there.

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 11:49 pm
by futuresailors
askthedust wrote:A Soda Meiser will get you exactly there.

:lol: :lol: :thumb:

Blurillaz wrote:Live at least, it's a rather obscure fuzz pedal on that song.. I believe it's the Vorg/Pearl Warpsound? It's tone control is strange as it works akin to a wah... Sadly they are rather rare-ish and go for a high price nowadays..

Tho since you've reinterested me in it I'll have to find a schematic and have someone clone it :p

:animal: ...

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:33 am
by nightraven
i'm getting some cool sounds with my ibanez od-855 gain and volume maxed going into an ibanez od-850 (big muff) also with the distortion maxed ( :joy: :joy: ) then into my ibanez ad202 on the 'doubler' mode

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:45 am
by Blurillaz
Just listened to it again...
Basically any wall-of-sound fuzz will get you there. The only problem is there is definitely 3 guitar tracks on it. The acoustic one mixed low, no doubt clean, and then there are different tracks for the fuzz guitar in each speaker... Basically unobtanium as is every MBV song.

But it gives you an excuse to get a warpsound :p

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 1:40 pm
by tchen
Blurillaz wrote:Just listened to it again...
Basically any wall-of-sound fuzz will get you there. The only problem is there is definitely 3 guitar tracks on it. The acoustic one mixed low, no doubt clean, and then there are different tracks for the fuzz guitar in each speaker...


not that it matters that much, but i was under the impression that the acoustic wasn't just mixed in clean, but was actually fuzzed out itself... being blasted through a bassman head. forget where i read it.

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 3:50 pm
by Gilmourish
nightraven wrote:i'm getting some cool sounds with my ibanez od-855 gain and volume maxed going into an ibanez od-850 (big muff) also with the distortion maxed ( :joy: :joy: ) then into my ibanez ad202 on the 'doubler' mode


*if there was a smiley for extreme jealousy it would be here*

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:12 am
by nightraven
vorg warp sound has surfaced
http://www.ufoclub.it/strumentazione/STRUMENTAZIONE.htm
€170
too much for me though

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:08 pm
by tuffteef
it does really remind me of the soda meiser now that i think of it

Re: MBV "Sometimes" fuzz pedal

Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:47 pm
by edkoppel
It's actually the Vorg Warp Sound going into a Big Muff.

and right now I have my Vorg boxed and ready to send to John/Basic Audio for a Vorg+Muff clone in 1 pedal!
It will be awesome and I will let you guys know what's going on with it.

:omg: