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A Sample of What Others are Saying... bobby@hinson-design.com Hey man,
Just got the pedal. My initial impressions, under less than ideal conditions (a questionable battery through my hybrid practice amp): holy crap!! This is one sweet sounding pedal. All the gain anyone could ask for, while staying smooth, articulate and organic. The true test will be with my performance setup (AC powered pedal through a class A tube amp), which is over at my band's rehearsal space. But I have faith that it will sound even better :-) Thanks a lot, Bobby CanderHS@bp.com Alf,I received the Mosferatu over the weekend and have run it through a couple of amps and will use it at band practice tonight and at a gig on Saturday night. The pedal works and sounds great. I really like the pedal and will not be returning it. So, congratulations on building a nice pedal. Here's what I like about the pedal: surpringly good sustain, even at lower gain levels. Thick, yet believable tone. The pedal actually sounds a bit like an old Fulldrive that I have (one of Fuller's first Fulldrive's -- unpainted box). However, the Mosferatu has a more "open" sound -- you get a little more detail on the high end than the Fulldrive. In other words, it's a little more amp-like than the Fulldrive. The pedal seems to work best with my 6L6 based Marshall amps (JTM45 and Bluesbreaker combo), but it also produces Robin Trower tones with my EL34 based 50 watt Marshall (a good thing). Overall, this is a pedal that I would recommend to people that like Tubescreamer-type overdrives, but think that Tubescreamers and Fulldrives don't sound "real" enough. The Mosferatu provides the thick mids without sounding synthetic. Lastly, the Mosferatu sounds good regardless of whether the amp is breaking up or is running clean. I also like the way the pedal reacts when I put a volume booster in front of it and send a big signal in. You get an even thicker, singing tone that works well for leads. Suggestions on the pedal: I have large feet, but I think that even people with normal sized feet might appreciate having the footswtich farther away from the knobs. The footswitch on mine is close to the middle of the pedal. I realize that space is cramped inside those boxes once you throw a battery in and that you have to make compromises. Also, I will probably use double stick tape to mount one of those cheap Radio Shack battery clips to the underside cover plate -- just to ensure that the battery doesn't slide around at all... unless you tell me not to... Thanks for the fast service and keep up the good work. Best regards, Harris filgate66@comcast.net Alf
OK, here's my review. My goal was to
see how the Mosferatu prototype would work with different amps. I used a George
Dennis 30 watt Mighty Mouse (4xEL84) into a Gibson 2x12, a 1969 Fender Champ, a
Behringer GX110 (2 channel SS) and Yamaha 115B (30 watt SS bass amp). I played a
1972 Tele with Bill Lawrence L290's, a LP Jr with Bill Lawrence P90's. a H-S-S
Strat, and a Teisco del Rey with G&L MFD's. Ernest jmeehan@opentext.com Hi – Will Ellis was kind enough to lend me his Mosferatu 1 to check out. I had a chance to gig it this weekend and Will had mentioned you might be interested in my findings. This weekends gig was a casual holiday party, we covered many styles of music. I used an ash strat with Kinman Woodstocks and an Allen Accomplice 1x10 which is like a cross between a black-face deluxe and a Princeton reverb. I also used a Schecter C1 which is a neck thru “shredder” guitar with 2 humbuckers. My main board is a behemoth, but I threw together a small board consisting of the MOS, a Maxon AD80 and a BOSS PQ4 for solo boosts. The MOS performed great! I really dug the sounds. Plenty of gain on hand, I found pinch harmonics worked well, and it sat in the mix rather nicely. The “back off the volume on the guitar” was cool and I liked the tones I was getting. The single tone control is useful and I found the tone I was looking for with more room to spare, which is good. Plenty of volume on hand. I did find the location of the switch a bit too close to center and closer to the edge would be more beneficial as I found myself hitting the controls a few times when I stepped on the switch. Also, spreading the knobs out more across the whole width of the pedal would benefit “foot tweaking” and using knobs with bigger pointers, or whatever you call the white dots that show you where the knob is, would aid in visibility on a dark stage. The knobs from a Rat2 that glow would be great! All I all, a great pedal. This is a list of the pedals in that vein that I’ve currently got and am comparing to. I can see the MOS making me consider selling off some of this gluttonous herd!. Pharaoh Sweet Cheetah 2 BJF Dyna Red Original Marshall Guv’nor Barber Direct Drive SS Tonebone Hot Brit Rat 2 Willie is going to have a tough time getting this back from me J Regards John kshows@covad.net Hello Alf,I got the pedal today ... sounds great! Heavier (more gain) earlier in the sweep than I thought there'd be, but you can never have too much gain! :) Thanks, Kevin sturnialo@lucent.com The
pedal came Friday, but I was not there to sign for it so I picked it up
Saturday. It sounds great. Plenty of sustain and I particularily like the
"crunch" sound. Sounds like a cranked Marshall, what I also like is it doesn't
have that buzzy sound that many OD's have. I was wondering what order the
channels are cascaded in? It seems that the left channel comes first. I was
trying to set the pedal to give me a rhythm and lead sound, any suggestions? I
was also wondering if you had done any mods so that you could switch between the
channels quickly? What I mean is have channel 1 as the rhythm channel and
switch to channel 2 without having to turn off channel 1.
Thanks, Joe Got The M3 today.....what a killer pedal man......alot different than my mos.....whats up with that? Will said a volume drop??? i dont get it.....it will blow my speakers out at half volume.....i got some serious fat gain happenin with this thing..the mid control seems kinda funky.....just not used to it maybe..more of the Marshall vibe than the Dumble vibe im hearin on mos1 ...might be cool to market it that way.....mos1 dumble...mos3 marshall....make a double.....marshall and dumble in one ped.. more later thanks bud Tony adambaker29@comcast.net absolutely killer!!! great bass response, great snarl and bite! great od, great distortion. I like the drive on 8:30, 9 and 11 o'clock, the tone at 4 o'clock and the volume at 11 o'clock. I want it!!! sounds like a modded Marshall...only 1 niggle, it seems from 11 o'clock on the gain stays the same...heavy!. can the taper be adjusted between the boost and od sounds to distortion?
i just turned it up..w/ my prs mccarty into a clean
amp i got the greatest allman bros. tone on the neck p/up and a great gray moore
tone on the bridge. . this is great!!!!!! so amp like!!!!!!
fredz@pe.net Hi Alfonso..got the pedal and played it a couple of
nights.It's got good lively pizazz in the mids.. the gain comes on pretty quick,
but it does have a clean region..I bought it for the gain tho.I like the
muscular finesse in the sound..better than the typical 4558 based pedals out
there..It's got more believable snarl than i expected.. it goes great into other
pedals, or behind another booster/od pedal..good workmanship and sound. doesn't
seem to be amp fussy either. I'll be tying it thru some more amp/speaker
configurations this week... thanks Alfonso..Keep me posted on your new
developments... fred z
williebudda@hotmail.com Hey Alf, Man, I had about another 2 hours to play the Mos after I spoke to you. You really NAILED it on this one!! This is one amazing sounding pedal. Thanks again! |