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Just arrived today, and I'm thoroughly impressed with it, the controls make it very versatile, it can do a huge array of sounds, big growly low end, or splatty glitchy squelchy high end. Anywho, how bout some badly taken pics? I did have a better shot of her insides but it seems to have deleted itself...... The penny is to illustrate how small and inaccessible the sub switch is Y'know, I think this might be a ZVex pedal..... Now I'm gonna waffle on about this thing, this is my first ZVex pedal and I had no idea how tiny they are, it's slightly bigger than an MXR box, just on it's side, it's very well put together, the battery that comes with it is a little loose, but i took it out anyway as i run it off my 9v supply, but the controls are what make this unique, so I'm gonna go through each one, full OCD style. Relax/Push: This is a source impedance blend, which is a miracle for us active players, no more squishy gating where gating doesn't belong, with full source impedance added (all the way to relax), the pedal responds just as it should, setting it elsewhere changes the character Fuzz: Pretty self-explanatory, this thing doesn't do subtle, so it's range is lot's of fuzz - even more fuzz PW: This controls the width of the square wave, from a symmetircal, roaring "regular" fuzz on the left, to a splatt, biting glitchy fuzz on the right. Past about 10'o'clock it has a kind of gating effect, at full left there is a bit of noise on high fuzz settings, but past 10'o'clock it's silent with no signal. Some other pedals have this as a texture control Tone: This actually only controls the treble, so on bass it controls the bite of te fuzz essentialy, with it most of the way left it can do a pretty good scooped muff impression. Subs: This has 3 positions, 1 is no subs at all, as you can imagine pretty useless on bass, 2 is a little more useable there is some bass there but it's not booming, 3 is where you get the booming. On 3 there is no low end loss whatsoever, as good as every bass specific fuzz i've ever heard. This is the best feature of the pedal from a bass perespective because it just adds or takes away the sub frequencies, doesn't change the characteisticis at all, so unlike other guitar fuzzes on bass, you get the full functionality of all the knobs, not just one or 2 settings. This is my main fuzz now, it's just so versatile, I've never played a mammoth, but from samples I've heard, this can do a lot of the same things, and it works with actives, for about a third of the price, this is my new go-to reccomendation for a mid priced fuzz. The biggest problem as lemmywinks said is the sub switch, it's so damn tiny and nestled right between the vol and tone knobs, I have spindly girly fingers, so it's not a big ptoblem for me, but I can see some people finding it very annoying Hmm, that turned into more of a lengthy review than first impressions, oh well, I'll get sound clips up next week when I'm back at uni and should be revising

Are you sure you put them together right? I've never used George L's, but you mention the cap eating into the plastic indulation, but I'd assume the wire you were screwing into the cap would need to be fully stripped? That would explain the crappy sound if it was only making slight contact with the actual bare wire

[quote name='joegarcia' post='480597' date='May 6 2009, 01:44 AM']Update from me: [attachment=24856:board.jpg][/quote] That's a hell of a board, how do you choose between your 6 dirt pedals, 2 delay pedals, 2 octavers, 2 synth pedals and 2 eq's, not to mention 2 guv'nors? Plus where did you get your messdrive? I didn't think electrix had any uk dealers?

[quote name='DanOwens' post='478098' date='May 3 2009, 10:23 AM']WANT WANT WANT I love my Wooley Mammoth but god does it tear everything up!! Dan[/quote] From comments/clips i've heard it's supposed to be quite different to the woolly mammoth, it's supposedly a little tamer, not gated, but supposedly the bass response is just as good as the mammoth, but the impedance control is what really sold me, my Devi Ever cherry pop is great, but it's a wild fuzz, and it hates my active spector, I actually like the gated synthy attack, but there's only one or two settings that are usable below an open A, so a tamer, well rounded fuzz that likes actives is just what I need I can't stop talking about this thing.....

Should have probably done a better google search.....found a few around, music ground have them on evilBay for £110, which I thought was pretty reasonable, until I found [url="http://www.guitarvillage.co.uk/product-detail.asp?id=7859&catid=9&manid=272&quantity=1&product=ZVex+Vextron+Series+Mastotron%2C+New"]this[/url], I'm DEFINITELY getting one for that price, If only I didn't have to wait a week to afford it.......I'll put up some impressions/maybe some sound clips when I get it, with the impedance control and sub switch, this could be a very interesting pedal

I'm having serious GAS for one of these, does anyone know if they've hit the UK yet? I've checked all of ZVex's UK suppliers and no one has them, I could probably get one from america for the money I'm willing to spend, but I'd prefer to get one closer to home if I can

You're gonna get a hundred different reccomendations from a hundred different users, but it sounds like you're looking for more of a low gain OD, perhaps even dirty boost territory, the Bad Monkey is great for this, at low gain settings it adds a lovely tubey warmth and growl, but it can do more full on OD as well, without actually having tubes which would cost you 3 times as much. Mine was modded by one of our members, silent fly, and I love it, but it's really up to your own taste/budget. The cream Pie or the Barber LTD special recipe are some pricier boutique options too, there's plenty of choice out there

stupid geography, this sounds just right for me, but i'm down in canterbury in term time and york in the non-term time, oh well

This sounds pretty interesting, definitely my kind of thing, but what kind of commitment are you looking for? I'm fromyork but I'm at uni canterbury, I'll be back in york over the summer, are you just looking to get some songs written or have you got gigs in mind?

There's always the junction, bit out of the way from town though, and the bands aren't always to everyone's taste, haven't been there in nearly a year though, it may have changed a lot, used to do a lot of good gigs there though

If you feel handy with a soldering iron, you could knock one together yourself, there's a post with some schematics up in the forums somehwere edit, found the link: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=40389&hl=schematics"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...p;hl=schematics[/url]