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Great Wall: What To Expect
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:43 pm
by Bassboar
I finally scored a Great Wall, courtesy of proroby.
What should I prepare myself for?
Does like active pickups and stacking?
How dark can it get?
Basically, I want any and all info you guys have on it with bass.
Thanks bros.
Re: Great Wall: What To Expect
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:08 pm
by Almonds
I never tried it with bass but I assume it would be amazing. I think it sounds best with the tone circuit off, but I imagine it can get pretty dark when you turn it counterclockwise.
Re: Great Wall: What To Expect
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:08 pm
by sylnau
I never tried it... and I play guitar.
But this demo sound great to my ears.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeibHQYtYR4[/youtube]
Re: Great Wall: What To Expect
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:00 pm
by FuzzHugger
Bassboar wrote:I finally scored a Great Wall, courtesy of proroby.
What should I prepare myself for?
Does like active pickups and stacking?
How dark can it get?
Basically, I want any and all info you guys have on it with bass.
Thanks bros.
Which Great Wall did you get? There are...a few...versions.
Re: Great Wall: What To Expect
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:01 pm
by Bassboar
Phil Spector graphic, 2 switches.
Re: Great Wall: What To Expect
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:20 am
by Bassus Sanguinis
Tom Dalton wrote:Bassboar wrote:I finally scored a Great Wall, courtesy of proroby.
What should I prepare myself for?
Does like active pickups and stacking?
How dark can it get?
Basically, I want any and all info you guys have on it with bass.
Thanks bros.
Which Great Wall did you get? There are...a few...versions.
the evolution of the Great Wall makes it a fuzz beast not unlike the quality wines.
Bassboar wrote:Phil Spector graphic, 2 switches.
A bass player friend I jam with has one of those two knob Spector versions. I had absolutely no problem whatsoever with the active bass, but it DID sound and react a little different with a J-bass and a Ric. Very balanced and ...musical, for lack of a better word, despite the amount of fuzzy fuzzness.
If You like dark sounds, then yeah, back up the tone knob, if the trebles can't be killed form Your bass. But the toanz excel IMHO when the tone circuit is bypassed and the high end does the frosting on the fuzz.
Haven't tried stacking, though, You can get a lighter overdrive sound from it, too, and when You engage the both You get a huge saturated wall of fuzz sound. Judging by the bass preamp, stacking it with a treble booster or a bass booster - or both - should give results that in studio make the engineer enthusiastic, and metal guitarists envious.