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Something like this maybe? Just sit it on top of your amp or hide it down the back and forget about it. Doesn't even need power. Spend the change on beer or something. (Gotta admit, surprised they get away with marketing that as an attenuator.)

If its any use to anyone you can pretty much add a master volume to an amp that doesn't already have one by sticking a volume pedal in the effects loop. Let's you crank the preamp valves and then turn it down before it hits the power amp.

"always wanted to own a football club and a Ferrari but settled for renting Justin King's leaky old canal boat. #regrets #buyrichenergy #6forapound #entrepreneur #pleasedonttellanyonehowilive"

Aye even one watt through a decent speaker can piss off the missus and the neighbours. I impulse bought a Bassbreaker 45 head when Thomann had a flash sale. Nice amp but it's asbo material even in 1watt mode.

Got to assume that's aussie $. And "I'd rather ship it" stinks of "it's fucked but I'd rather blame that on the courier" Nice lump of wood though. Almost the perfect middleground between Gibson and Fender, that.

Pete put out a few decent tunes tbf, just hard to believe they weren't all written by Mark Keds like most of the libertines hits.

Nice one, glad to hear first impressions are good and cheers for the feedback! (same to @sammynb!) Any issues or questions you know where to find me. More impressively, the amp in this video is said to be running on the power of his marketing wank.

Nah you're spot on to call that out. Poor form on my part and I should fucking know better. Overshot that line between just funny wordplay and bigoted, degrading, brainlessness. Anyway back on topic, the volume control on the guitar acting like a gain control in these old germanium Fuzz pedals is probably the coolest thing about them and the only real reason it's still sought after in these circles if you ask me. There's a few great Silicon adaptations that get pretty close like some of the David Main (D. A. M) pedals (and even *cough* analogman) but they're just not quite the same and don't clean up to the same extent. Feel like I've derailed this, I'll shut the fuck up until you've got it back on track. If anyone wants my input just type something like "boutique" or "analogman"

Ah fuck yeah, was just regurgitating an overused joke in the pedal scene without really stopping to think about how it's a bit offensive. My bad, I'll remove that one from my repertoire. Hey as far as the pedal goes, it's only a waste of cash if it sucks, and like you say it'll hold its value better than a lot of stuff in the guitar world. Didn't realise this was a 7 knob version so there's something else I was wrong about. Looks pretty cool and with all those options there must be some usable tones in there somewhere. But yeah that's some serious marketing guff on the Zvex page, but I suppose "featuring £2 worth of ancient parts from the old Soviet Union" doesn't have the same appeal.

Clearly had a few too many drinks last night, no offense intended with any of that. My sober take on those pedals: the King/Prince of Tone is just a modified Bluesbreaker that needlessly uses somewhat hard to source diodes for clipping the signal. If they do sound any different from the ones in the Bluesbreaker it'll be barely perceivable. They do have a very slightly different threshold for clipping the signal but it's barely worth mentioning. My bet is he scored a bunch of them on the cheap and decided to throw them in whatever pedal he was making at the time, nominal change that can be used as marketing buzzwords. Those Germanium transistors @Tom was talking about will no doubt be legit, for whatever reason Russia kept on producing Germanium semiconductors long after the rest of the world moved on. And to be fair to Zvex and Analogman they can be a total ball-ache to sort through, since they drift off spec as they age and the data sheets are in Cyrillic. They're not all that rare or expensive though.

I know a few folk who can sort you out with cheap Russian trannys if that's what you're into man. For £350 you might need a 7 seater.

Sorry man, dunno what revisions were made over the years but the most expensive conponents in the earlier versions of the fuzz factory are the control 5 pots, barely 50p each. Under the hood theres basically just three Silicon transistors worth a few pence each. Cool pedals though and from what I gather Zachary is a decent bloke who'll give you a hefty discount if your names J Mascis. (quick edit to add:) seems I was wrong, two of the three transistors are old-school germanium rather than silicon. Add £2 to my whatever my previous estimate was.

I'll give it a watch! Think they own coolaudio who make most of the BB chips you'll find in a lot of reverb and delay pedals. It's two of their "Prince of tones" stacked in one box, and there's fuck all special about the PoT parts wise (but admittedly it does sound pretty good). Check out the cunts Instagram, he's prancing around playing tennis and flying around dirt tracks most of the time, doesnae even build the pedals himself these days. Two year waiting list is a con, just artificially creating demand.

Haven't seen that but I wouldn't doubt it for a second. Can't patent or copyright a schematic so a lot of these big name pedals are literal exact clones of other stuff, no legal issues at all. Behringer have the advantage owning a fuckton of manufacturing plants that make semiconductors and Belton Bricks, so it's no surprise they can massively undercut some of the more respected brand names. I like Josh from what I've seen of him, seems quite happy to admit nothing he sells is new or original and most of this shit was childsplay even back in the 70s.

Tbf most of the chat I've seen here is around more modern stuff. Youse would've heard a lot more from me if you were lusting after stuff like the analogman pedals. Nothing wrong with them and he knows his stuff but just rips the utter piss with his prices. £200 quid base price, DC power sockets and a wee LED to tell you whether it's on or off are fucking optional extras at £20 a pop. Then the cunts got the cheek to stamp the name of a 10p transistor on the front to give off the impression that it made with rare and expensive parts. But hey, this stuff is only worth what folk are willing to pay for it. Anyway, rant over. Honestly dunno why I focused all that at Mike "analogman" Piera, he's far from the worst offender. Thankfully the helix looks a bit cumbersome to be turned into a pacemaker. Line6 punting medical gear sounds like the start of a Black Mirror episode. "if your Line6 life support machine freezes or glitches, turn it off and remove the power source for 3 three minutes, then reboot while pressing the tap tempo button in time with the hi-hat from Kickstart My Heart by Motley Crue"

Cheers man! Hope it works out for you, tone is subjective and all that but I'd say the Zendrive is well deserving of the hype, just not the price tag. Most folk seem to like stacking it with another overdrive, Timmy seems the most popular option but a fella once messaged me raving about how great it was into a Voodoo Labs Sparkle drive with its "clean blend" and after finally getting round to building one of those I'd have to say he was right. I fell for it before even stacking it with other pedals, on its own at extreme settings got into those Hellacopters "High Visibility" tones. Return address will be on the box, feel free to publish it anywhere and rip me to shreds if you think I've pulled a fast one.

Missed the 4th knob question, the lower one is a standard tone control, the top one is the Zendrive "voice" control. On paper it doesn't sound all that intuitive but essentially it dials out low end and slightly increases the ammount of gain available. Full ccw, more low end but a bit less drive available on the gain knob, fully clockwise, less low end, slightly more drive.

No worries. Theres a whole scene of eggheads who literally trace these circuits from photographs of the guts of the original pedals, usually to try to call these "boutique" cunts out. There's no black magic, it's all 60 odd year old tech and the schematics for the original circuits are widely available. 99% of the "boutique" analogue pedal scene is honestly just people modifying already tried and true circuits. Few examples, the D.A.M Meathead is literally just a slightly tweaked clone of the old Coloursound One Knob Fuzz, the original JHS Angry Charlie was traced and "borrowed" from a small time Aussie fella (even Josh Scott himself would tell you that, just added another capacitor to shave off some high end). Robert Keeley made a name for himself modding Boss and Ibanez pedals, his own pedals aren't all that far removed. Vast majority of it is nowhere near worth a few hundred quid. The Zendrive least of all. Probably barely a tenner in parts.

£30 is probably fair for something like this thats getting mass produced. I'll level with you, none of the sought after and supposedly "boutique" analogue pedals on the market that I've cloned are even close to £15 in parts. Could easily half that if you're building a few hundred at a time.

Yeah man. It's probably the about the 20th Zendrive Clone I've made over the years. I used to just do amp repairs and custom pedal builds locally as a side gig but that all died on its arse when the music scene shut down. I'm reduced to punting random speculative stuff on ebay and reverb until gigs start happening again and the tech work picks up. I only ended up here to flog a Newcastle themed pedal I'd made for a friend of a friend who vanished off the face of the planet when the pubs shut. Surprised I haven't outstayed my welcome yet tbh.

Demo's sound alright but I'll stick with my Zendrive clones. Can't match these for price but have got one listed right now if anyone's really after a Dumble in a box. Ebay Zendrive Good luck with the flitting, don't envy you in the slightest. Fucking nightmare moving house at the best of times, never mind in the middle of a pandemic.

Nice guitars like but Ive long been affected by this weird involuntary reaction whenever someone mentions them. Similar to the reaction I had that time my landlord mentioned possibly putting up the rent in the same breath as saying he'd bought a new Audi R8. @Tom could just grab a cheap cab sim pedal with a headphone out to stick at the end of your board? If you want something more portable and not tied to your pedalboard those Vox Amplug things are quite handy for just wandering about the house with headphones.

Fuck if anyone's actually gonna use that let me know and I'll spend more than 3 minutes on it. Use of that logo is conditional though, I politely request you donate at least 5 pence to any given charity (your own beer fund is fine by me) just so we can safely say that Fish Energy has generated more cash than Gimli's weird bathtub concoction.

Aye man. With a decent interface latency isn't really an issue. 3ms latecy is nothing. Even 10ms is fuck all compared to trying jam with real people after 6 pints. Serious question: if the Fly didn't exist, would you ever go out of your way to buy a plastic speaker cab with a 3" driver for your guitar?

The fish or the entrepreneur?