Death By Audio Harmonic Transformer

[the5chord]

Who has played one of these? Is it worth the high price? Sounds pretty great on the few demos I have found of it. Thinking of one of these or the soundwave breakdown.

[Holy Schnikes]

I had the OG Harmonic Transformer and it was cool but fairly limited in terms of variety. The enclosure is ridiculously HUGE too, like cinder block on your board. I sold mine.

I def prefer the 3-knob Soundwave Breakdown, amazing sounding and unique fuzz with way more variety going on.

[theavondon]

I know the bass player of Ringo Deathstarr told me she really loved her HT, and that she barely ever turned it off.

[the5chord]

I had the OG Harmonic Transformer and it was cool but fairly limited in terms of variety. The enclosure is ridiculously HUGE too, like cinder block on your board. I sold mine.

I def prefer the 3-knob Soundwave Breakdown, amazing sounding and unique fuzz with way more variety going on.

I see they have a micro version of the Harmonic Transformer that is small. But yeah the soundwave breakdown does sound more versatile. How close do these come to overlap?

[psychedelicrelic]

I had a HT clone I got on ebay for like 100...still there last I looked. Like schnikes said, its limited. I only liked one of four settings. I used to own a 2 knob soundwave. Loved it, want another one. Most settings just squealed a high pitch noise but when I found a position I liked, I really loved it. Only down fall is that if I came back later the the same position, it didnt sound the same. I remember once on acid I had a bass plugged in the the soundwave and headphone into my amp and I could hear the electronics working in the house. ..with depth. Like I could hear the fridge in the kitchen and the tv in the living room and they sounded like where there were in the house. The ac, lights, bathroom fan....heard it all in the amp. But I could have been trippin way to hard. I also thought I hear voices but very faint. I tripped on that for like an hour before I started playing again.

[Holy Schnikes]

The Soundwave def does some squealing and has some totally insane noise settings that tend to change depending on the physical location of the pedal or my guitar or amp or whatever but those sweet spots are soooooooo good. Something I've noticed over the years is no two Soundwaves (that I've tried) sound quite the same. I know a guy that builds DBA clones (Glass Hero Amplification) and he said he couldn't get it sounding right either. I do know it's based on the Super Sonic Fuzz Gun but I can't quite remember the specific changes.

[the5chord]

I see some company called CBC pedals on eBay makes harmonic transformer clones. Any word on how good they are? The gut shots of the pedal seem pretty simple so maybe not too hard to get right?