EmmettC Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I was just on the way out the door to collect the kids from school when UPS arrived with my new Jad Freer Capo. I won't get a chance to try it until later, but it looks great. It's definitely a solid piece of gear. I'll update with some clips and opinions once I've had a chance to get my head around it. Including customs it comes in around £500, so it's not cheap, but not too expensive for a hand made bit of gear. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sibob Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Would love to try one, but not a financial likelihood at the moment unfortunately. Let us know what you think. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshy Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Yeah I would love to hear what you think. I ordered one from their distributor in Italy and got messed around for ages and took the full refund in the end. Shame as I was super keen to try one at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDinsdale Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Snap! I also didn't get time to play with mine but build quality is awesome. My pedalboard is dismantled ready to try all the different signal chain combinations with the pre/post send. Gonna do the sensible thing and work that out before I commit to Velcro and cable ties for once. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmettC Posted February 8, 2023 Author Share Posted February 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said: Snap! I also didn't get time to play with mine but build quality is awesome. My pedalboard is dismantled ready to try all the different signal chain combinations with the pre/post send. Gonna do the sensible thing and work that out before I commit to Velcro and cable ties for once. Aww nice. I was happy with my signal chain, but I have an angled pedal board in a flight case, and the Capo is tall, so I'll need a rethink to fit it in. Slightly annoying because putting it lower down will restrict access to the xlr outs. I still haven't tried it, the kids are asleep and I'm struggling with Mendeley reference manager and word, they are not playing well after an update..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDinsdale Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 That's just the universe trying to tell you to kick back and play with your new pedal! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDinsdale Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Had a play with some different levels of drive and grit with the LPF on/off: Only had about 5-10 mins fiddling but really love the sounds on this thing, it does super warm vintage cleans all the way to glassy distortion. I find lots of products claim that level of versatility but I think this actually gives it. In the sample it goes from bypassed, A side, B > A side, Longsword + B > A side and finally Longsword boosted + B > A side. Each with LPF off and LPF on. Not remotely scientific but a useful reference. There are some extra details on the soundcloud. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this thing. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattpbass Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Heh, good to see you both succumbed! 😁 I’ve now had a couple of rehearsals with mine and I still can’t say enough good things about it. You’re completely right that its versatility is absolutely as claimed, but I think what impresses me most is every sound I get out of it is usable. Every time I think I’ve got a favourite setting I try something else and it’s just as good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 I want to know more! I play neosoul and punk rock, im always in search of those 3 tones: Motown phat clean, SVT esque clean with a bit of hair, and full whack distortion ala Lil Fella / Darkglass b3k… it could replace a couple pedals, like the fore mentioned lil fella and Blackstone Mosfet overdrive… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattpbass Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Motown clean no problem, clean with some hair no problem, distortion definitely but I dunno if I’d say full whack, but I don’t need that so not looked for it, the other fellas might have pushed more in that direction. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Ahar! Yep that’s my biggest question, whether it can do full whack distortion… thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmettC Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 Well it plays nicely on my board, I've only tried it straight into my amp and using just the power amp of my head. I'll try it on a gig next week, but I'm confident it'll be a great di too. I was looking for something that would be a nice warm clean sound and sound good in my amp and as a di, I'm really happy so far. A practical thing though, it's too tall to go on the top row of my angled pedal board, it won't fit in the case. I've ordered an agled xlr to make a patch cable so I can just plug in a cable at the side of my board. I've already done that for the jack cables, so it'll keep the jack and xlr outs side by side. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattpbass Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 No worries on the DI front, it sounds awesome. Looking at getting a flight case for my board and I’ve also realised it’s taller than my other pedals, it’s such a dinky footprint I guess they had to squeeze it all in there somehow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmettC Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 Yea, it's just a small thing and probably particular to me. I'm only keeping the Genzler REQ pedal on there for the hpf and lpf, I don't actually need the eq section now. I'm sure I'll find a smaller filter pedal then I'll have a bit more room to play with. I put the aguilar octamiser on because it's narrower than the OC2 and the korg tuner because it's a lot smaller than the TU3. I really don't want a bigger board though. 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmettC Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 I like to have Star Wars stickers on my pedals when there's a bit of space, I can't bring myself to do it the the Capo. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDinsdale Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) 3 hours ago, Ander87 said: I want to know more! I play neosoul and punk rock, im always in search of those 3 tones: Motown phat clean, SVT esque clean with a bit of hair, and full whack distortion ala Lil Fella / Darkglass b3k… it could replace a couple pedals, like the fore mentioned lil fella and Blackstone Mosfet overdrive… These were really rushed and didn't spend any real time dialing stuff in but this is just my J4 into the Capo and straight into my Scarlett 2i2 and logic. It's pretty rough but just to try and show a little diversity. Barely touched the EQ or made use of the J/F preamp blends either. Edited February 10, 2023 by MrDinsdale 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmettC Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 At the risk of boring everyone to death, this thing is amazing. I've settled on a nice clean tone with preamp A and a small bit of grit when I add preamp B. I'll still use my B3k for full on drive. Everything I played sounded great, it is so well designed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 8 hours ago, MrDinsdale said: oh. Uh oh. Gawd. Oh. It does have a good heavy grit eh…? Dang! The second tone sounds amazing for the type of distortion I like. Damn… I think I’m in trouble. It could even do fuzzy bit I can see from there…. how wide is it? Like an Alpha Omega/B7k kind of thing? this could potentially replace the woolly mammoth, Blackstone Mosfet and lil fella and almost pay itself that way……… Could do mini tuner, el capo and c4 synth (c4 would do chorus, octaver, filter and synthy lead stuff of course). HMMMMMM….!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 6 minutes ago, Ander87 said: oh. Uh oh. Gawd. Oh. It does have a good heavy grit eh…? Dang! The second tone sounds amazing for the type of distortion I like. Damn… I think I’m in trouble. It could even do fuzzy bit I can see from there…. how wide is it? Like an Alpha Omega/B7k kind of thing? this could potentially replace the woolly mammoth, Blackstone Mosfet and lil fella and almost pay itself that way……… Could do mini tuner, el capo and c4 synth (c4 would do chorus, octaver, filter and synthy lead stuff of course). HMMMMMM….!!! Ah now, behave yourself @Ander87! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 Hard to do so when I’ve all of youse seducing me with your gadgets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 10 minutes ago, Ander87 said: Hard to do so when I’ve all of youse seducing me with your gadgets! Enablers all! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Well! I am back bringing some goodies - being the instagramslut™ I can be at times I took advantage of a post from Jad Freer's insta on 'DM us with any questions!' I have to say they were super nice and answered my questions... Mattia was happy for me to post this here: So in essence, yes it can do pretty high gain, not sure it gets to the level of Darkglass but still... It could well replace my current gain stage (Blackstone devices mosfet OD, woolly mammoth, lil fella) to purchase a Capo for similar sale value of those... and leave space in my mini board for a C4 synth to put on the effects loop. That and a compressor and you'd have a pretty mighty mini board eh? The links Mattia referred to: Not maxed out And this is 2:08, with gain at about 1-2pm on both A and B sides, potentially could work out for me squeezing it a bit more: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Also I'm quite liking this for a saturated tone, around 4:08 : 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDinsdale Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 The clank style they described is pretty much exactly what the settings i settled on. It has a tone that's pretty Darkglass-like but without having that really recognisable Darkglass eq. Genuinely everything i try sounds great. It even plays nice stacked with other drives really well. My current dilemma is if I should get rid of my Model Fet. It still adds something incredibly subtle that I can't quite seem to pin down further than it making the bass feel thicker. I think if it wasn't there I'd probably never notice in real terms. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ander87 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Aha! I love the darkglass clank but my gripe with DG is that it eats bass from the EQ all the time, making it thinner sounding. the Lil Fella is better in that end but I’m still to find a distortion that does me the same fat thick bassy tone as my clean… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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