Hi,
after several attempts of profiling amps with (more extreme) fuzz pedals with bad results, I did some testing today, trying to find out what´s goining wrong here.
guitar used: Fender Thinline Tele with a Barknuckle Blue Note P90 in neck poition
stompbox: Z.Vex Fuzz Factory, setting Vol:3; Gate:0; Comp:0; Drive:5; Stab:10
amp: Sans Amp PSA-1 with a clean, slightly breaking up Plexi-like preset
recording: RME Fireface 800, analog inputs
I recorded the following signal chains:
1: GTR -> FuzzFactory -> SansAmp -> Fireface
that´s the "source sound" to deal with
2: GTR -> KPA input -> KPA direct out -> FuzzFactory -> SansAmp -> Fireface
you can hear significantly more gain, the fuzz sounds over the top, kinda destroyed.
3: GTR -> KPA input -> KPA direct out -> FuzzFactory -> SansAmp -> KPA return -> KPA master out -> Fireface
sounds even more destroyed
4: GTR -> KPA input -> KPA direct out -> Pickup simulator -> FuzzFactory -> SansAmp -> KPA return -> KPA master out -> Fireface
the pickup simulator is a little passive device I built to create a guitar pickup-like impedance at the input of the pedal. Some pedals, especially fuzzes need to "see" a guitar signal incoming, they don´t work as expected with line level signals for example.
This sounds better, but still too far away from example 1!
5: the profile, KAP out -> fireface
the profile sounds completely different, even after refining ´till the cows came home
somewhat clean, without the splatty character of the fuzz.
please give it a listen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2y7pkq3o0a6g…FactoryTest.mp3
So here I am, just slightly smarter than before, because I have no clue what to do to get a final profile with the sound of example 1.
Any ideas?