Help me make the Creepy Fingers Pink Elephant sustain longer

DaveLawrence · Post by **DaveLawrence** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:53 am

I really like the tone of this pedal but I have a problem, the gated sound is really killing my good vibes about this pedal.

After a few hours of putzing around with the controls and knobs on my guitar I was finally able to make it handle chords on my guitar well enough, but then I ran into a bigger problem: the internal gating of the pedal is literally killing my tone. When I play softly the sound barely makes it through to the amp, and I often have less than a fraction of a second of sustain on my notes before it decays to silence. It sounds like a someone got a little too heavy handed with a noise gate to be honest and it is annoying me.

Is there any way to remedy this? Add a compressor or a boost before the pedal maybe?

Thanks for reading!

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:15 am

Yes try a clean boost before or a compressor after... Or the other way around... Have you tried anything before or after it yet, do you have anything to try with it??? Some gated fuzz is just like that and that's what you get, short, choppy, rippy fuzz... It's great for some stuff but not so great for others...

DaveLawrence · Post by **DaveLawrence** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:31 am

I don't own the pedal currently, I was simply at a local shop a few days ago to try that pedal specifically and spent close to four hours with it dialing in different tones to make it work for me. It was one of the better sounding fuzzes to my ears and I really loved the octave effect but I didn't take it home because of the gated-ness issue I was having.

I was planning on going back to try it with a boost / compressor or whatever other solutions you fuzz enthusiasts could come up with.

chutneyfarmer · Post by **chutneyfarmer** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:46 am

I know my MXR Blue Box is seriously gated when used on it's own, but lash a boost in front of it and it sings. See if you can try out the Creepy Fingers with a simple LPB-1 in the shop. It may have an impact on the sound but who knows, it could sound even better

futuresailors · Post by **futuresailors** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:08 am

Put a rat in front of it.

hclapp219 · Post by **hclapp219** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:25 am

Like others have said, you'll need to put something in front of it, probably a boost. Putting a compressor after it would do nothing to change the gated fuzz it outputs.

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:06 am

DaveLawrence wrote:I was simply at a local shop ... and spent close to four hours with it dialing in different tones ...I was planning on going back...

Oh, the shop employees must love you.

I'd e-mail Creepy Brad and see if he's willing to build you one with some altered specs to give it a little more sustain. That'd be the easiest solution.

Other than that, I'd try boosts both before and after the Pink Elephant. (Might not work.)

Chaosmic · Post by **Chaosmic** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 10:46 am

Mine sounds amazing with my Monarch driving it. Definitely increases sustain.

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:07 pm

If you read the title and have no idea what it is it kinda sounds like a weird euphemism for "Help me find Extends so I can make my penis longer"...

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:09 pm

sonidero wrote:If you read the title and have no idea what it is it kinda sounds like a weird euphemism for "Help me find Extends so I can make my penis longer"...

No, no, no. More like "longer lasting erections".

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:16 pm

Chankgeez wrote:
sonidero wrote:If you read the title and have no idea what it is it kinda sounds like a weird euphemism for "Help me find Extends so I can make my penis longer"...

No, no, no. More like "longer lasting erections".

Oh my God it's been 4 hours and 20 minutes... CALL THE AMBER LAMPS... :whateva:

DaveLawrence · Post by **DaveLawrence** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:14 pm

Chankgeez wrote:
DaveLawrence wrote:I was simply at a local shop ... and spent close to four hours with it dialing in different tones ...I was planning on going back...

Oh, the shop employees must love you.

I'd e-mail Creepy Brad and see if he's willing to build you one with some altered specs to give it a little more sustain. That'd be the easiest solution.

Other than that, I'd try boosts both before and after the Pink Elephant. (Might not work.)

I left because the store actually closed before I could do any more XD

And I will try that.

MaxMaps · Post by **MaxMaps** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:02 pm

DaveLawrence wrote:I really like the tone of this pedal but I have a problem, the gated sound is really killing my good vibes about this pedal.

After a few hours of putzing around with the controls and knobs on my guitar I was finally able to make it handle chords on my guitar well enough, but then I ran into a bigger problem: the internal gating of the pedal is literally killing my tone. When I play softly the sound barely makes it through to the amp, and I often have less than a fraction of a second of sustain on my notes before it decays to silence. It sounds like a someone got a little too heavy handed with a noise gate to be honest and it is annoying me.

Is there any way to remedy this? Add a compressor or a boost before the pedal maybe?

Thanks for reading!

Gate fuzzes are meant to be nasty. That being said you can blend or boost it and that may help your problem.

But in kind of defeats of the whole purpose of the thing, the original circuit was called the Scrambler so, you know.

DAMBLE TOANZ

DaveLawrence · Post by **DaveLawrence** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:32 pm

Hmm, I suppose that makes sense.

Are there any less-crazy but still sweet-sounding octave dirt pedals?

hclapp219 · Post by **hclapp219** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:35 pm

Do you have a favorite fuzz already? If so, look at the Fuzzhugger Upper: http://fuzzhugger.com/pedal-upper.html

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