PennyRoyal

My thoughts exactly.

No worries, the whole album is pretty good. Fat and soupy, with the occasional belter of a riff breaking the surface

I tried the SD1, and the same thing happened. Tried switching the buffer, changing cables, all to no avail. I’ve eventually narrowed it down to how the attenuator was working with the Jet City amp. I have no idea why, but when I had everything balanced but the attenuator letting the amp run a bit harder, it just killed the UD/SD. Taking the volume down and pulling the attenuator down brought it back in. Why it only affected the SD or UD, and not the fuzz or Bad Monkey, I have not the faintest. There’s a lot less drive on the Monkey, and a lot, lot more on the fuzz. Anyway, PITA, but solved.

So YouTube did the thing, and showed me this today - seems interesting, and cheap https://youtu.be/utzkwr6Scnk

I’ve really not enjoyed Zoom’s drive models, I played a Line 6 job a bit ago that impressed me, an HX One I think. All the models are the same as their flagship units iirc, and it was less than £200 second hand. That’s not stupidly cheap I know but it’s quite a lot for the money I think

This may help, though the general consensus is that low volume (eg running whatever amp at low volume, not necessarily having a big loud amp) won’t give you very nice sounding/feeling distortion. The received wisdom seems to be, for low volumes a cheap amp sim/modeller is the best sounding option, which often comes with a bunch of drives/effects built in.

I’ll chuck an SD1 in and see what happens. It’s the fact it behaves as expected in one amp but not the other that throws me, while everything else does what it should, and the split is outside of the switcher. Like the fuzz, which is definitely fussier, does exactly what it should.

The switcher is a bit odd - it’s a Hotone Cybery. It’s a weird little 4-channel thing, only made for a bit, but you can chain a couple of them together to have 8 channels controlled from a relatively small switcher. It’s Bluetooth too, so you can set it all up without grovelling around on the floor.

Nasty

It’s about 10 years of extremely poor impulse control… sounds great though. The switcher has a separate tuner out, and a switchable buffer, which is (hopefully, I’ll check) on.

I sympathise, as much as I can for someone without that set of anatomy - I’ve twice had a camera shoved up my nose to look down my throat. First time, they just jammed what felt like a VHS camera straight in there, and it seemed like the front of my skull was on fire and splitting in half. Second time they used a lidocaine gel, and I felt exactly nothing. How the hell this isn’t standard in IUD fitment (installation? Application? Don’t know what you’d call it, that all sounds worryingly like something involving a mechanic, there has to be a better description) is mind boggling.

Thank you but no!

Horn please ok