Ander87

Hey Mick! The American Original 60s, thanks to @d_g from this to something more like this:

And I’m the 3rd @admiralchew 😁 diamond BCP 2.0 for me fellas. Huge running at 18v (36v internal). If you’re interested, speak to Nuno, he’s running an offer and could let go of the units with my casing (being replaced on colour/print) for a bit cheaper yet - but I didn’t say this 😉

That is a thing of beauty Mick, love the relic’ing!!! Looking super genuine! Can’t wait to take my pbass for a bit of roughing up 😁 Ander.

Aaaand to make things more interesting, they’re gonna deliver it to my Spain address since I’ll be there from next weekend for a week - saves me all customs taxes etc, win win!!!

I can confirm they work perfectly, opened them and no issue whatsoever so I must be lucky - also they must show the quality of sealing around knobs etc… they were dripping! … and plus now I have the nicest scented pedals in the business!!

well! Tell me about any company that will follow up your order via instagram! I’m assuming this is gonna be leaving Italy on Monday, then the whole UK customs palaver… but we’re getting there! I should start looking for the Nano+ 😅 I also have a Mesa amp head coming this week, and flying out to Spain for a quick visit over a week, it’s gonna make me want to come back here to properly play with the new toys more than ever 😁 PS all in it’s been more like 3 weeks at most if folk are curious. Ander.

If it helps, I’ve had chances to compare a bunch of 8x10s, Ashdown and Ampeg mostly, against the Barefaced Six10. I love the advise from barefaced on the Eight10 page ‘just don’t. Buy a Six10 instead’ Guess what’s at home?

Running this in front of an SVT 2 Pro for the time being.

Nik just bought a set of strings from me. In fairness I was late a couple days in delivering due to a bunch of defensible reasons but Nik made no fuss about it. Understanding, quick payment and just a great guy to deal and chat with - would completely recommend! Ander.

This was out tonight at TTT Motorcycle Sudbury…! of course, sound man spilled a mug of coffee over my new pedals (all except Polytune arrived this week for my bday). Dried them in a rush and they all seem to be working, but man, what the ffffffflip…!?!?! Will not play them for a couple days and pray they still work as they did, happy to hear any tips just in case 😢

Steve just bought my beloved Ric 4003. Top chap to deal with, committed, punctual and great comms all the way. reassuring buyer, deal with him in trust. Enjoy that beauty, Steve! Ander.

feeling the same way! Feel free to share some interesting settings, I just received it yesterday!

Plus, this is the older enclosure with a printing error (9-12v opposed to 9-18v) so I got a good price from Nuno and couldn’t resist 😊

Indeed @Bigwan! I’m the fat general clone is great but of course the thought of a diamond v2.0 was attractive. Both great, but I’d say the Lusithand has more headroom - takes 9-18v with a circuit doubler so mine is effectively working at 36v. It is also more flexible with the EQ with two different set points to shelve/tweak at 250/900hz. Potentially more sustain too, but then again, whilst I think I prefer it to the FG, it doesn’t make the FG bad in no way.

Lots to talk about this, but here we are - missing the Capo on its way to me this month I hope…

Hey gang, decided to take the jump on something unusual. I was really thinking of a C4 by Source audio for my synth stuff but I know myself and I'm not the laptop fiddly kind. I wanted something more knob friendly. So, somehow I ended up with something I hadn't seen here at all... Mastro Valvola. I went over to Joe's Pedals after being introduced to the shop via 'Andy Bassist' on YouTube and looked for Octave / Fuzz pedals, tempted to add some sort of modulation after to make my own synth like stuff. Lots of interesting pedals, but I settled (after measuring up and down and planning the board etc) on the Mastro Valvola stuff, specifically the Octave Fuzz Filter pedal and Lysergic Emotions Module (multi delay for ambiances). Before I dive in, I'll say the treatment I got from Joe was fantastic - fair pricing, great advise and took p/x of some pedals I was parting with at a fair price - he also shipped them super quick so in no time I had them just as I came from my little holiday in Paris. Check this short video out...: The pedals are smaller than the pictures make them look, definitely less tall than, say, an Alpha Omega. Super well built, with solid knobs and brushed aluminium casing - made in Italy. I was initially set for the OFF1 as I wanted that fuzz octave flexibility and this pedal had more knobs than most octave fuzz's I had seen. It has a mid scoop switch, an octave up switch (2 octaves down on knobs) and the filter circuit with resolution and cut off. Then I watched the videos of this combined with the LEM and all the synthy lead stuff really got me. The LEM has 8 ambiance types, even presets! dual modes etc - a mess of LFO, trails, shimmer, delays reversed, fifths up and double function buttons - I will definitely need to work on it but very, very interesting pedal - combined with the OFF1 is just trippy. They feel like Strymon type of pedals but sensibly cheaper than those if that'd help. Huge amount of headroom and analogue circuitry. I'll share more as I progress but these three videos really captivated me - they're on guitar but amazing nonetheless - also basstheworld did a very good review of the OFF1: And of course, the updated pedalboard picture - I'll tell you more about the Alma Compressor some other time... - note I will need the Nano+ for the Jad Freer Capo