Author Topic: Digitech Hendrix Pedal (Read 469 times)

jalevinemd · « **on:** April 14, 2005, 08:47:27 PM »

Hey Guys,

I've never been much of a digital effects fan, but I gotta give credit where credit is due. The new Digitech Jimi Hendrix pedal is awesome! Pre-programmed settings to give you fairly dead-on tone for 7 of Jimi's biggest songs, from Purple Haze to The Star Spangled Banner. I'm not saying this Jewish Kid from New York is going to fool anyone into thinking he's Hendrix, but I didn't need to go out and buy a Fuzz Face, Roger Mayer Octavia, EMT Plate Reverb, Vox Clyde Wah, Unicord Univibe and whatever else to come close enough for my pedestrian ears. $199 well spent! If you enjoy playing some Hendrix now and again and don't feel like trying to cookbook his tone from whatever effects you've got, give it a whirl. Plus, you can't beat the purple velvet carrying case!

Regards,

Jonathan

dnburgess · « **Reply #1 on:** April 15, 2005, 01:23:18 AM »

That seems consistent with reviews for the Digitech Eric Clapton pedal, which is programmed to emulate the tone of a number of Clapton's famous tunes.

So who do you end up with if you use the two pedals in series?

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 15, 2005, 05:39:48 AM »

Jimi Clapton?? Eric Hendrix?? Slow Teeth?? Perhaps a pile of melted wires and blown speakers, or just frustrated sidemen going hey, I'm playing too.
JK
Come back David TLO and bring Tornadic Thunder with you.

Mike

kmh364 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 15, 2005, 12:22:06 PM »

I'll have to ck that one out. As a Hendrix devotee meeself (no, I can't play like him either...come to think of it, who can? Robin Trower? LOL!), it's worth investigating.

Thanks, Jonathan. How's the amp search going?

Cheers,

Kevin

alembic76407 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 15, 2005, 01:23:24 PM »

Tornadic Thunder is alive and well, I just need some Marshalls to chew on!!!!

and a large P.A.

David T {TLO}
have amp, will travel

(Message edited by alembic76407 on April 15, 2005)

jalevinemd · « **Reply #5 on:** April 15, 2005, 04:42:18 PM »

Kevin,

I haven't decided what to do amp-wise. I love my JCM 2000 and think the itch is more GAS related and I'm trying to resist the urge to scratch. I don't know that I'd be able to discern any real difference between mine and something closer to a Plexi. I've also been looking at the new Reeves amps. I'll let you know.

Jonathan

kmh364 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 15, 2005, 07:47:56 PM »

Well, whatever you decide, play everything and have fun doing it! Ck out Scott Splawn's site (splawnguitars.com, if I'm not mistaken)just for sh*ts and giggles. He's got lots of sound clips of his modded amps. He does wonders with Marshalls of all vintages, including JCM-2000's, for very reasonable (i.e., dirt cheap) prices.

Kendrick, Victoria, Koch, Matchless, Dunble, Two Rock, Bogner, CAE (Bradshaw), etc., are all good also, depending on desired sound, features, power, etc.

Now that I've got my preferred clean and dirty amps, I'm toying with the idea of a hand hardwired vintage Bassman/Champ/Princeton-style low-wattage blues amp and/or maybe a handwired Vox AC-30 myself.

BTW, I've been trying to find those pix you posted of your entire guitar collection. Truly inspirational. Can you point me in the right direction?

I've been toying with the idea of a pair of custom-spec'd Warmoth guitars: a tele and strat-style, but with Fralin p/u's, custom wiring/necks/FB's/frets, etc., and premium woods. I can build 'em both and have my expert luthier/guitar teacher set 'em up for less than a single Fender Custom Shop guitar. I've also been eyeing Hi-Dollar jazz boxes, Gretsch Nashville Flame-tops and/or Brian Setzer Customs, and Rick guitars and basses.

Don't even get me started about effects...I want a Pete Cornish custom effects pedalboard in the worst way, LOL!

GAS indeed! LOL!

jalevinemd · « **Reply #7 on:** April 15, 2005, 09:02:41 PM »

Kevin,

Here's the family. There's a new Alembic in the works. Just about ready to enter the design phase. Should have something started in the next few months.

For beautiful neck-thru Strat/Tele guitars, check out Reurrection.

Regards,

Jonathan

tom_z · « **Reply #8 on:** April 15, 2005, 09:37:11 PM »

I'll put in a couple cents here, Jonathan, and recommend that you try a Two Rock. I don't have one myself (yet), but a friend plays through a Two Rock (Emerald, I believe). These amps are truly TONE machines. They are based, more or less, on Dumble amplifiers, and can sound beautifully sweet, chimey, and clean with tremendous headroom - but crank up the gain and they have the tastiest overdrive. Two Rock amps match very nicely with Tone Tubby speakers.

If you can find a Dumble Overdrive Special and can afford it's inflated price, it would be a very nice choice too, though I've read that they can vary in tone quality quite a bit.

Both of these would be different from the Marshall sound as they are based on Fender architecture, as I understand it. But, it sounds as though you may be looking for something a bit different and new. I believe a Two Rock would sound amazing with your Alembics as well as your Resurrection - have a listen to Steve Kimock playing his Cripe through a Two Rock and Dumble - sublime.

Good luck with the search for tone.

Tom

kmh364 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 16, 2005, 05:28:12 AM »

Nice family!

Resurrection does have nice stuff.

I had actually wanted to order a neck-thru strat-style from Alembic before the 1/05 increase, but I couldn't make it happen in time. My Alembic dealer was temporarily out of commission at the time, and I didn't wanna deal with anyone else. In hindsight, by the time I'd have been done with the specs., I'd have a hideously expensive monster I'd be afraid to take out and play, LOL! (e.g.,I doubled the MSRP of my custom Orion bass before I was through).

My buddy has a Fender Custom Shop neck-thru quilt-top Tele that is awesome, and between that and the G&L Comanche (strat-style) with the flame top, birds-eye maple neck and MOTO pickguard that I like (well, I like everything BUT the ugly headstock shape and the Z pickups, LOL!), I figured I'd do a super-strat and/or tele. Fender is out of their mind with the prices they want, so my luthier suggested Warmoth. He's built a few for customers and is very impressed with the quality (this from a man who uses a micrometer to set-up guitars...he's also been waiting to build some arch-top guitars for over twenty years, but they have not yet been assembled because the wood is still moving! LOL!). When I priced them, I can have him build me two hi-spec Warmoths for the street price of one non-custom Fender Custom Shop instrument (i.e., the '48 Nocaster reissue). As a bonus, I won't feel so paranoid about taking those guitars out because of the relatively low price.

After seeing that gorgeous figured-wood carved-top PRS-style guitar on Roger's THG Knobs site (the one with his knobs, tuner buttons, real wood P/u rings and p/u covers!), I can also do a Warmoth like that...albeit with a bolt-on neck instead of set-neck (or neck-thru) construction.