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Initial Thoughts I got about 10 minutes with each pedal yesterday with my big rig so hardly in depth but I won't get them to play them again till Monday as I'm out playing gigs all weekend. [b] Tomato Fuzz[/b] - Woooo love it, I've been away from fuzz for a while and I had a Colorsound the other week on loan but man this pedal is great. IT's got that Fuzz Face vibe but with the treble cut I can take out the spluttery highend making it very smooth. Plenty of volume and fuzz on tap, no low end loss, fine with active basses and the turning the buffer off gives a whole different range of tones. Only thing I'm not sold on is the bias but this was using it in huge increments the last 25% of it are really nice for just tweaking the sound but when you really start to take it down its a bit thin for bass but there is still enough volume to make it usable even at the lowest bias settings. [b]Liquid Sunshine[/b] - My guitarist took this off me about 2 seconds after I walked into the room, he loved it, made his Mesa solo 50 sound so much thicker. It's a very unique pedal on bass as most bass pedals work on leaving your low end clean or dirtying up your whole signal, this allows you to do you whole signal and then distort the lows and mids more. It's really fun as I'm not a fan of high end so I can get really crunchy bass sounds while not getting any shrill sounds. Best way to describe it is, you know when you love a distortion pedal and its huge on the low strings but then you sound like a lead guitar on your top strings and it ruins the vibe well this doesn't your low end is big and crunchy and the top end is slightly gritty. Not sure if it's a keeper for 2 reasons, 1 it's very transparent and I want something darker for my boosty gain type tones like the Phat Punk, CPD or even the Chilli Boost and 2 my guitarist loved it so much that I will likely let him buy it off me. [b]Proteus[/b] - I just didn't get enough time with it, so far I prefer the Prometheus but I really just didn't get anything I liked dialed in, it can do a stellar LPF with one of the knobs dimed and one at minimum but I can't remember which but this will be the first getting hammered on Monday. [b]Baby Quasar[/b] - Well the old quasar was my favourite filter of all time, this thing kills it dead, it sounds way better so smooth and chewy, the range on the speed knob is insane I set it where I expected it to be perfect visually and it was sooooo slow, so I turned it up and bit and perfect. I don't know why we don't see more of these. This was the real stand out pedal for me, really wasn't what I was expecting and just didn't want to stop playing it, this is easily better than all the phasers in the Line 6 M series that were the reason I sold my quasar in the first place, they did a passable replacement. Overall very happy, there will be a Tomato vs Huck shootout in a few weeks when the Huck gets here but personally at the moment I think the Tomato will win, I just don't remember being as happy straight away with the Huck it was always a battle to get the right tone, once you did it was great but the Tomato is like turn a knob BAM great tone turn another BAM another great tone but totally different. Anyway, initial findings Baby Quasar is a keeper, Tomato is about to go up against my favourite bass fuzz of all time and it's looking strong. Other 2 I'm not sure about but don't want to comment on the Proteus really as I just didn't have the time with it. Cheers

HAPPY NEW SUBDECAY PEDAL DAY :hyper: Woooooo

You've always looked like a "Standby" to me personally

[quote name='steve-soar' post='900776' date='Jul 21 2010, 10:20 AM']You bast.... What does the "tayste" switch do? [/quote] When you flick it, it buys all the tube amps in the room

My new GT200, pics of it a top my 8x10 tonight

I should copyright it

Means people can use my amp with out messing up my settings, I just walk on and click, also means I know nothing as changed slightly if my tone is wierd one day, an issue I had with the 400+ a lot since it had so many knobs and sliders.

[quote name='johnnylager' post='900044' date='Jul 20 2010, 02:06 PM']Tidy mate, very tidy. Why the TaySte switch?[/quote] It sets it to a preset eq internal to the amp that is my tone

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='900009' date='Jul 20 2010, 01:44 PM']I keep coming back to look at this, it's chuffing mega.[/quote] I've barely left the page all day, all I can say is thank god I have a busy week gigging this week.

[quote name='sk8' post='899801' date='Jul 20 2010, 10:53 AM']Thats not helping me not want one [/quote] It's not helping me being at work, all I want to do is play this for hours and hours. But got another 4 hour practice tonight and then 3 gigs over the weekend with it

My new GT200 finished today Build thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87989"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=87989[/url]

Finished I jammed with it for 2 hour tonight with my 8x10 and man I can't believe I waited this long before pulling the trigger on it. The Tayste switch works perfectly even has a bit of boost on it so it sounds better than the front panel setting. Got band practice tomorrow which will be fantastic, really looking forward to it. So at the moment the front panel doesn't light up, this is due to me wanting red and they use a white electro iluminessence or however you spell it panel with a film across it, so 1 red film looked pink, they got it to red at about the 4th layer but then you couldn't see any light out of it. So they are sourcing a red plate but it will be a month, tbh I'm not fussed it looks stunning as is. I've ordered new black and red cinemascope badges for the 4x10 and 8x10 cabs. I'm just so happy now, it's been a really great birthday.

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It's my Birthday and my amp was finished just for today Here are the build pictures

You need to do the amps again

Have you tried thegearpage and harmony central? Both good forums for buying gear.