GAS: Source Audio Manta

[lefrash]

First I should say this was the most exciting bit of kit I've seen for a very long time. In fact its the only bit of kit for years that I felt I needed to own. I've had the full set up and used it for 3 hours tonight (but had the pedal for 1 gigs use). Heres my findings.

The pedal : On its own, it has numerous different effects (phaser, distortion, gated fuzz, filters etc) and I find these. I set it up with one preset being a synthy style fuzz and the other a basic phaser. Both at the gig (a smallish outdoor festival) sounded aboslutely stunning. In fact I'm tempted to ditch my fuzz and use this instead. I also was looking out for some sort of filter pedal so the phaser works perfectly. Can be tweaked to your perfect sound as there is soo many options. The pedal is a keeper. Well built, low noise, and endlessly tweakable.


After the first few hours of using the hot hand though, I find it not as easy to manipulate consistently as I'd like. Perhaps its down to practice, but I'm not convinced I could use it live, without looking like a twat. I'll certainly get back you all on this one, but the jury is out.

[fretmeister]

I always look like a twat live, so that wouldn't put me off!!