Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal
RonSonic wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:51:42 -0600, The Repair Guy
> <repairguy1993@yahooo,com > wrote:
>
>> RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>>
>> I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?
>
> As seperates, the Electric Guru treble booster goes $110, Hero's $160
> and the combo box is $210. A bargain for handwired goodness.
>
> There's now another clip of this pedal by our own Don Evans over at
> his myspace page that shows another aspect. He was extremely humble
> about the qualities of it, but we should be going to listen to this
> man play anyway. Check out the other tunes while you're there. Those
> are album quality and give a more fair example of his playing - the
> man can throw it down. The pedal demo is "Sonic Blue" and has just
> the clean amp chording in the middle, a bit of the Hero OD on the
> right channel riffage and both effects on the lead work. Each chorus
> he takes is with a different switch setting on the booster.
> http :// profile.myspace,com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18842405
>
> One of the things that gets lost around here is the talent and
> ingenuity of so many of the people here. Just one more reason to
> focus on that and ignore the goobers and turdslingers.
>
> Enjoy and thank you for checking it out.
>
> Ron
Thanks for the kind words, Ron. I gotta say that I only scratched the
surface of the many faces of that pedal. On it's tamer settings, the Hero
side has a way of sounding like the amp you use it with, just more
overdriven, and when you turn up the gain, even a Vibro Champ becomes a
monster. I kinda wish I'd done the demo with that, just so you could hear
it roar.
I like the treble booster (Electric Guru) alone, but with the Hero it brings
out a whole other set of voices. The demo shows how I normally would use
it, but you can go way into fuzz world as well, complete with violin sustain
and effortless controllable feedback. I hope someone goes nuts in a demo,
or if it comes by me on the way home, I'll do one like that. And, the final
thing ... crucial for me since I tend to set up and walk away from my
pedals, is the guitar cleans up real well when you turn it down. You can
tailor the clean up point by playing with the gains ... you have the booster
gain, the distortion gain and the final output level.
Between the three switchable boost settings and the three distortion modes,
you pretty much can make this thing your own. Passing it along was not
easy, I can tell you. I'm looking forward to hearing more demos.
Don