Mailday!

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:01 am

I reckon all days should start like this...

Happy days indeed.

Post by **Capt. Black** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:03 am

They look great. Can't quite make out the smaller pedal. What's it do?

(Can't be arsed googling

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AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:07 am

Damn! A Fetto! Was that a TGP deal?

It's mail day for me too ... well, actually, I have to go to the airport to pick it up ... a 65Amps London, 65Amps SoHo and a Reinhardt Ampzilla.

Come out my way sometime soon Jono and bring your collection of ridiculously sweet pedals!

crushing day · Post by **crushing day** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:15 am

mailday for me too ... big box of Barber's on the way

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:16 am

65 Amps!! I'm there!!!

The Fetto is for a friend. We went straight through Joakim to get it, its serial #19. Awesome guy to do business with. I'm taking it to the friend at lunchtime, we are going to put it through its paces...

The Echodrive though... that is for me. I've been looking for one for 4 months now (only 200 made WW), finally found one, and promptly broke the bank. (Had to use the Klon as my bargaining chip...)

Have a read!

AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:25 am

Yeah, the Echodrive has a really good rep, should very sweet! The original Matchless guys were involved with SIB huh? What sort of power supply does yours use?

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:28 am

All I know is that Rick Hamel was the man behind SIB. I didn't realise he was affiliated with Matchless...? Cool either way.

Mine is 110v. I'm still thinking about how to approach that problem... step down transformer... or maybe talk nicely to Crowther, or Clarry even...

Any ideas?

AmpShop · Post by **AmpShop** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:45 am

You're probably not going to require large VA for your stepdown, right? So you'll probably be able to use quite a small, cute stepdown TX.

Still, it would be nicer to get the pedal running straight off the mains. Crowther or Clarry should definitely be able to sort it. Wouldn't it be nice to open in and finds taps for 230V on the transformer just sitting there unused! If not, it'll just be a case of how much you want to spend getting a new transformer or getting the original re-wound for 230V.

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:52 am

Beautiful stuff - music to my ears! The only thing that was worrying me about the stepdown was the tube preamp... it uses a 12ax7, so I was unsure whether the draw would be large or not. Finding specs on this pedal is a nightmare!

Next up on my purchase list is a Lovetone Big Cheese... apparently DAM did a one off clone of it for some guy. It was on TGP the other day... damned pricey though. Fuzzzzzzzzzzzz...

philipnz · Post by **philipnz** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:33 pm

I had a SIB Varidrive. Great pedal. It was 110v. You just get one of those wallwart type ones from dick smith. Not very ezpensive

Mailday for me too - My 66 Vox AC-30 has arrived

thehenderson · Post by **thehenderson** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:11 pm

sweet looking amp:

angry_young_poet · Post by **angry_young_poet** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:14 pm

argh.. mailday too.. bills

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:29 pm

philipnz wrote:I had a SIB Varidrive. Great pedal. It was 110v. You just get one of those wallwart type ones from dick smith. Not very ezpensive

Mailday for me too - My 66 Vox AC-30 has arrived

Kawww! There's a loaded post! Lets see some pics of the AC! How does she sound?

Thanks for the advice on the wallwart. Appreciative!

Henderson - is that your Reinhardt? Very cool!

Just dropped the Fetto off to its owner. We played a Strat and a Gretsch into an Orange AD30. Some quick thoughts:

Great sound. Very much sounded like a cranked version of the amp + guitar combo, and the "core" control worked really nicely at compressing the sound, or opening it up, depending on what sound we wanted. The low drive control is brilliant!

The highly touted string separation thing - we hear it. Its very much as advertised - a rocking pedal, with no mush - the clarity is outstanding. I am rather impressed by Fetto... I may even have to order one for myself!

(Even if its just for that ostrich head!)

philipnz · Post by **philipnz** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:40 pm

This ran my varidrive no problem. Sadly I wont get a chance to try out the JMI till tomorrow - damnnnnn

http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storef ... View/M1155

crushing day · Post by **crushing day** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:43 pm

yep, i've got one of those DS transformers running my Korg SDD delay too .. never had a problem with it.