sylnau wrote:How do you like the Middle Man?
Never tried TAFM on guitar... how it is?
The Middleman is alright. It's a hair brighter then I expected. It also doesn't pass as much low end as I would want it to at lower gain settings. It sounds great with a dark amp though. My Sound City is pretty dark so it matches it pretty well. But it didn't really pair too well with the Sunn Sorado. It also doesn't seem to have as much headroom as I'd like. Even with the gain all the way down and volume at unity the MID knob alone adds dirt. That is NOT a bad thing, it just depends what you're looking to use it for. Again, with the Sunn being only 60w or so, it was pushing it too far into overdrive, however the Sound City has much more headroom and they pair up great. So it just seems to be sensitive to what amp you pair it with. It does the high gain thing MUCH MUCH better than the low gain thing. Unfortunately I don't need it as a high gain since I have plenty of that else were. So it's kind of a step child at the moment. I dig it, but eh, I could go without it. I was trying to sell it forever but no one was interested. The ad is probably buried in the B/S/T somewhere. Right now it sounds good at low gain with a MID boost (obviously) going through my Sound City, so I'm okay if it doesn't sell or anything. It's useful. It does exactly what it advertises.
The TAFM is my favorite fuzz pedal. It is beyond superb on bass but I absolutely LOVE it on guitar. It sounds so THICK and I mean THICK!. i also find it more versatile on guitar. Sometimes the features don't make a huge difference on bass, but on guitar you can really tell apart from the clean blend/volume switch, the mid select switch, and the input gain. I have plenty of "muff" pedals that do the muff sound really great, like my Bluebeard and Pharaoh, so I don't really use the TAFM as a "muffy" type of fuzz tone, I keep the fuzz and fuzz volume really low and boost the input gain and push the clean volume set to "dirty" on the switch. It just gives me a massive medium gain fuzz tone that sounds like four amps instead of two. It's raspy which cuts through, but it's still relatively dark which sits balanced in a good mix.
As that board sits:
Volume, Reverb, TAFM, Fuck, ABY
A: Ditto, Middleman, Sound City
B: Delay, PDF-1, Sunn
it's only way I can improve them
for science-themed pickguards! mine's a bubble chamber photo of matter and antimatter self-annihilating