Pretty Years settings/notes/hax

[Strange Tales]

Glitchy arpeggiating bass fuzz heaven.

Bias sets the intensity (good spot there, further to the left, about the halfway point, makes it behave more like a high pass filter)

Resonance will set how often it glitches around.

FM will also control how pronounced the glitch effect is.

Gain 3 can be turned up for more fuzz altogether. Don't touch Gain 2, I find it makes everything sound like shit.

Frequency changes the sound altogether. Adjust to taste, but a distinct possibility you take out this glitch arpeggiation with it (I left it there).

Keep the Tri/Pent switch set upwards. Downwards takes out the effect. Same with the FM switch, needs to be downward.

[Chankgeez]

It could reach 1000 pages

[Eric!]

I had a low gain 2, filter modes 2 and 3 up, and it ACTUALLY STARTED CHIRPING. LIKE BIRDS.

[Ev_O)))]

Going from some kinda gentle octavey, clangy intermodulating stuff to clean gain with a simple turn of the freq knob:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpK5AchULVk[/youtube]

It's especially present on the E string 12th fret. Cool as a sublte effect that you could fade in and out with EXP

[e-vang]

Happy to finally own this beast!! (Took a good while to get to Greece but it's worth the wait!)
Broken fuzz with ring trem as it fades away, or when strum lightly
The album rocks by the way

[coldbrightsunlight]

The album does rock, I listened to it again today on a bus ride. Love how well Pretty Years the pedal captures the sound and feel of Pretty Years the album.

[augur44]

Hi! I do think this pedal can sound very close to many distortion/fuzz pedals on the market.
Here are 2 settings I made based on some of pedals I've been playing or some time.
I'll try in the next days to do the same with : Fuzztone, Fuzzrite, Shin-Ei I have in my possession.
I play on a Jazzmaster AVRI w/ Dollar pickups through Hiwatt 50w combo from 1979.
Settings may be different for you, but it's to give you some ideas.

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[augur44]

You can probably get similar sound with another setting.
This one is just my take on it.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

Hi! I do think this pedal can sound very close to many distortion/fuzz pedals on the market.
Here are 2 settings I made based on some of pedals I've been playing or some time.
I'll try in the next days to do the same with : Fuzztone, Fuzzrite, Shin-Ei I have in my possession.
I play on a Jazzmaster AVRI w/ Dollar pickups through Hiwatt 50w combo from 1979.
Settings may be different for you, but it's to give you some ideas.

i love that you did this! so awesome.

[coldbrightsunlight]

You want to borrow more of my pedals? Because I have a great FF.

[UglyCasanova]

Random settings:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMi6AD5ZkMw[/youtube]

[Eric!]

Thick and grindy, and each of the FM settings add either spitty or choked sounds (that's what those two extra footswitches do..)

Also I might've taken it apart and sandblasted it and the knobs. Relic'd/80's-ified

[jrfox92]

Also I might've taken it apart and sandblasted it and the knobs.

For a second I was gonna ask, "how the hell did you manage to get all that grime on it?"

[Eric!]

Also I might've taken it apart and sandblasted it and the knobs.

For a second I was gonna ask, "how the hell did you manage to get all that grime on it?"

VINTAGE 80S MOJO.

I ...don't like super glossy or shiny stuff. MATTE OR SATIN FOREVER.

[ritz]

Damn... idk if that's really cool or if I want to cry for it. It's definitely a commitment.

Used-to-be-Pretty Years