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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

top is for guitar
bottom is for drum loops (PA)

this is what makes me happy

That looks great! how is the MPX8?

great so far
its really my introduction into drum machines/samplers so i don't really have much to base it on
but it's been fun trying to sync up my guitar loops with the drum loops on the m9(whilst adding effects to it)
i need to get a SD card for it though

The I'm-home-for-Christmas-rig

That pickguard...
Those pedals....
Oh my that is all just so very nice!

Daaaaaaaamn dude that is so tight. That's the first pedal in the chain?

chillerthanmost wrote:The TAFM is my favorite fuzz pedal....(edited for space)....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.

I have never used the TAFM this way, I must try it...

Hollow Earth dafuq!

B.K. Butler Mini Matrix > 68 vox v828 Tone Bender > Lotus Orange > Dr. S Cosmichorus > Red Panda particle > EAR ad4096 > van amps sol-mate jr

Downsized from a PT Pro to a PT Jr. Still getting a tone of mileage out of this set up though. I have the h9 covering so much ground I might ditch the Reverb.

MXR Bass Comp>IE SubT>SA OFD>IE Xero Dlx>Eventide H9>SA Dimension Verb. EB VP Jr controlling the H9

MEOW.

wfs1234 wrote:The I'm-home-for-Christmas-rig

dude. space6oy wants a space pickguard. where'd you find that?

space6oy wrote:dude. space6oy wants a space pickguard. where'd you find that?

It was painted by Ben (heartben) a member here!

wfs1234 wrote:The I'm-home-for-Christmas-rig

how's the hollow earth? don't need to hold back critisism. it's only way I can improve them

also, for science-themed pickguards! mine's a bubble chamber photo of matter and antimatter self-annihilating