Oh boy, guess what I got?

My offer for a mint Hoarse Fleas was accepted on Reverb, the Barstads. I've put my Blues Driver and TU-3 tuner up on CL. I also have a Polytune coming in, whenever SW gets their stock replenished. I listed my MXR Sugar Drive as well, but then changed my mind. It's little, it will fit somewhere. At the rate CL usually goes, I'll be able to try the BD and the HF at the same time. Maybe.
 
aamefford said:
My offer for a mint Hoarse Fleas was accepted on Reverb, the Barstads. I've put my Blues Driver and TU-3 tuner up on CL. I also have a Polytune coming in, whenever SW gets their stock replenished. I listed my MXR Sugar Drive as well, but then changed my mind. It's little, it will fit somewhere. At the rate CL usually goes, I'll be able to try the BD and the HF at the same time. Maybe.
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I snagged one on the 'verb yesterday. Good deal....$140

Damn you Howie!!!!!!!! 😂
 
aamefford said:
Ahhhh. You bought that one!
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I wonder if that one was on there when I bought mine. I got mine for $129 plus tax, free shipping. It came with the box and all of the goodies in it. It has a few light scratches on the bottom of it that looked much worse in the pictures than in real life. I never see the bottom anyway and if it goes on my pedalboard, which it very well may, it will get Velcro stuck on the bottom anyway.
 
Funnyish thought. I started with an SE Custom 22 and a Fender Mustang GTX or something 100 modeling amp, which actually didn’t suck. 6 months later I had a Mkv25 and an S2. The quality level of my stuff has maintained or increased from there. My pedalboard is a learn as you go project. None of the pedals are “budget,” Boss or better, and none of them suck. I’ve never really had “bad” gear. Contrast that to my life in motorcycles, where I started with a 50 cc mini bike, worked my way through others’ clapped out race bikes and finally started getting the good stuff several years later.

I guess my point is that myself and the other geezer newbies like me, likely don’t have a lot of “bad” to compare the good to.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to the horsemeat, even if it is comparing a good ribeye to a good New York. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
 
Got to plug mine in and try it today. First impression is a solid thumbs up. There is a lot of tones to be had.
I love the mid control, as had been stated already, it really let's you dial it in to different amps.
Need to spend some time and "horse" around with it more, but I would definitely recommend it.
Good call Howie!
 
Short update: Got some amp time last night, but went back to the Blistertone. That amp sounds great!!! I’m still trying to decide what I would compare it to… whatever it sounds like, it’s great!
 
Mine showed up today. About five minutes on the Mesa TC-100 on the clean channel. I've been playing the KL-380 triple soapy. With the guitar straight into amp, with the gain pegged on the clean channel, is still pretty much clean. Maybe very some slight fur on the bridge pickup with the volume on 10. With the Mary Cries compressor with the pedal gain about 9 'o'clock it will break up a bit, and can be pushed a bit more. With the "remorse sleet" (I'm running out of rhyming nick names), the reaction is pretty similar with the gain at 9 o'clock, treble and bass at noon, voice about 2 o'clock. I didn't have enough time to try much else. You can turn the gain all the way down, and it's - wait for it - less gainy. And you can turn it all the way up, and... The voice knob is cool, and has more effect than YouTube demos would make me think. All the way left, and it gets kinda sharp, grainy, raspy like the Blues Driver seems to, to me. All the way right is smoother, maybe more liquid sounding? Anyway, so far after just a few minutes, I like it a bit right of center. I'm pretty sure it will bump the Blues Driver. I never really gelled with that pedal, except as a sort of clean boost with the gain down, level at unity +/- and the tone a bit right of center. Anyway, a keeper. It seems to play really nice with the Mary Cries, at least from what I could tell in the couple minutes I messed with it. Funny side note - I set it on the amp, plugged the guitar in, and plugged it straight into the amp. I couldn't figure out why it didn't work. Silent when the foot switch was on, and pass through worked. I figured it got killed in shipping. Then I realized it needed power... Age plays nasty tricks on a guy. That's all I've got so far.
 
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