DVM's ZYS

[Spudman***]

Bah.. I´ve come across some photo evidence of your dirty work! Here is DVM preparing another set of chicken bones!



*edit* good idea to use gloves, you dont want to catch the bird flu. Talk about Mojo!

Where are da knobs? Musta hab dem chiken hed nobs.

[oldguy]

Overdrive recordings are much better. Is there a reason the guitar is totally to the right in the mix? It's hard to really hear it that way. Which guitar was that? Do one on the tele neck pickup.....

Guitar is to right because it's thrown together on two tracks of the BR549 and not mixed down. Slide your PC's volume control balance/fader setting to the right more to hear more guitar and less BT. (Start/All Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Volume Control).
It was the Switch's bridge EMG Select. The tele's down till I get some strings on her. I think my neck pickup's different than yours, yours will sound different, but I'll get a clip on here w/ it when I can. In the meantime here's another higher gain clip. I mixed this one down just for you Tone. Enjoy!!!
Oh, I forgot, you can't get them at work, can you???


http://www.box.net/public/q025r6jlvr

[Tone2TheBone]

Guitar is to right because it's thrown together on two tracks of the BR549 and not mixed down. Slide your PC's volume control balance/fader setting to the right more to hear more guitar and less BT. (Start/All Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Volume Control).
It was the Switch's bridge EMG Select. The tele's down till I get some strings on her. I think my neck pickup's different than yours, yours will sound different, but I'll get a clip on here w/ it when I can. In the meantime here's another higher gain clip. I mixed this one down just for you Tone. Enjoy!!!
Oh, I forgot, you can't get them at work, can you???


http://www.box.net/public/q025r6jlvr

*laughs* Ummm...no sir I can not. You know I'm dying for some clips aren't you. hahahaha

---I also pulled the stereo headphone jack out halfway and that helps A LOT.

[duhvoodooman***]

Where are da knobs? Musta hab dem chiken hed nobs.

Whaddya, blind? I see them clearly!

Attachment 977

[oldguy]

Tone, check yer e-mail, buddy!!!

[Tone2TheBone]

Tone, check yer e-mail, buddy!!!

Ok thanks! Listening to the first clip again via your tip and my forced mono headphone trick. Nice sound on the 'buckers there actually....

[oldguy]

On the 3rd clip I started w/ the ZYS off so you can hear the difference when I kick it on. Again, just guitar, ZYS, PB&J delay pedal, then straight into the ValveJR.
One difference... I picked up a Shure SM57 coming home (when they sent us home from work early today) and recorded w/ it into the BR549. The sound is much closer to what I'm actually hearing now than it was before with the other mic.

[Tone2TheBone]

Guitar is to right because it's thrown together on two tracks of the BR549 and not mixed down. Slide your PC's volume control balance/fader setting to the right more to hear more guitar and less BT. (Start/All Programs/Accessories/Entertainment/Volume Control).
It was the Switch's bridge EMG Select. The tele's down till I get some strings on her. I think my neck pickup's different than yours, yours will sound different, but I'll get a clip on here w/ it when I can. In the meantime here's another higher gain clip. I mixed this one down just for you Tone. Enjoy!!!
Oh, I forgot, you can't get them at work, can you???


http://www.box.net/public/q025r6jlvr

*grins* the Zonkin' Yeller has sweeeet saturation. I like I like!

[Tone2TheBone]

On the 3rd clip I started w/ the ZYS off so you can hear the difference when I kick it on. Again, just guitar, ZYS, PB&J delay pedal, then straight into the ValveJR.
One difference... I picked up a Shure SM57 coming home (when they sent us home from work early today) and recorded w/ it into the BR549. The sound is much closer to what I'm actually hearing now than it was before with the other mic.

Can't go wrong with a 57...glad you picked one up! Thanks again for the recording G!

[oldguy]

Tone, here's the settings you wanted. Bridge HB, EMG Select, Valve Jr. set about 1:00, I might mention I've retubed w/ JJ's, a "36" grade EL84, and changed the preamp from 12AX7 to 12AT7(ECC81) for less preamp breakup, so ALL the gain you're hearing is the ZYS,on "normal" mode, with gain/bass boost on setting#4 of 6, and "drive" full up, the amp won't start any breakup until around 3:00 w/ humbuckers spanked hard.

[Tone2TheBone]

Tone, here's the settings you wanted. Bridge HB, EMG Select, Valve Jr. set about 1:00, I might mention I've retubed w/ JJ's, a "36" grade EL84, and changed the preamp from 12AX7 to 12AT7(ECC81) for less preamp breakup, so ALL the gain you're hearing is the ZYS,on "normal" mode, with gain/bass boost on setting#4 of 6, and "drive" full up, the amp won't start any breakup until around 3:00 w/ humbuckers spanked hard.

This is one good looking pedal. This is one good sounding one too. Thanks for posting the pic, it answered my questions. Normal mode on the diode selector really sounds good. I'm remembering Voo's clips with the pedal in hot mode too. I think Voo is gonna be rich soon.

[oldguy]

It really is a very vesatile pedal. You have to tweak it, and get to know it, because every single knob and switch actually (gasp!) DOES something!
I'm still learning, but if you can't get a sound (or several) out of DVM's ZYS that you like, you haven't found the right settings to match the pedal to your gear, IMO.
I'll be checking out the full-on gain settings w/ EQ before too long, and be adding some dual chorus, reverb, etc.
I wanted to try it w/ just some delay straight into the amp first, so it wasn't being colored w/ a bunch or other effects.

[Tone2TheBone]

It really is a very vesatile pedal. You have to tweak it, and get to know it, because every single knob and switch actually (gasp!) DOES something!
I'm still learning, but if you can't get a sound (or several) out of DVM's ZYS that you like, you haven't found the right settings to match the pedal to your gear, IMO.
I'll be checking out the full-on gain settings w/ EQ before too long, and be adding some dual chorus, reverb, etc.
I wanted to try it w/ just some delay straight into the amp first, so it wasn't being colored w/ a bunch or other effects.

Glenn is the Valve Jr. the only amph you have? It isn't I don't think. I would think you'd get even more versatility and tone options with an amph that has treble, bass, mids and presence etc. But what you've recorded so far makes the pedal sound pretty good...especially if you had the pedal's tone knob below 12:00 and running through a Valve Jr with no amph tone knobs.

[oldguy]

Oh, no, I've got a '65 Blackface Super, a Musicman 2x12 Sixty-five, and a Traynor YCV-40WR... but I wanted to use the amp I could crank a little w/o disturbing the neighbors, and besides, what fun would it be tweaking all those settings on amps when I wanted to have fun tweaking on the ZYS?
Seriously, if a V.Jr. w/ 1 knob sounds good, you can make pretty much anything sound good w/ this pedal.
I'm thinking of hooking into the Traynor next and combining the OD channel w/ the ZYS to see how over the top it can get and still sound tasty. Or maybe run stereo into the Musicman and Fender w/ the ZYS driving them both into some nice crunch sounds. But I always end up playing half as loud as I want to and twice as loud as the law allows....

[Tone2TheBone]

Oh, no, I've got a '65 Blackface Super, a Musicman 2x12 Sixty-five, and a Traynor YCV-40WR... but I wanted to use the amp I could crank a little w/o disturbing the neighbors, and besides, what fun would it be tweaking all those settings on amps when I wanted to have fun tweaking on the ZYS?
Seriously, if a V.Jr. w/ 1 knob sounds good, you can make pretty much anything sound good w/ this pedal.
I'm thinking of hooking into the Traynor next and combining the OD channel w/ the ZYS to see how over the top it can get and still sound tasty. Or maybe run stereo into the Musicman and Fender w/ the ZYS driving them both into some nice crunch sounds. But I always end up playing half as loud as I want to and twice as loud as the law allows....

Ah ok I get it. Dang neighbors anyway! Yeah I agree and that is what I was trying to say. If you get good results with the V Jr. and using just the pedal for your tones then I'd say it's doing a fine job. Good point.

[Tone2TheBone]

Since there hasn't been any recent activity in this thread I decided to post a link on "The Scream".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

.....bears a striking resemblance to a little red guy I've seen.

[Spudman***]

Played my first gig last night with the ZYS.

I ran into the ZYS first then into the rest of my pedal board which is Rotovibe>Wah>Loop selector>DS1>TS9>Flanger>Delay>Tuner>amph. Usually I use the modded TS9 to fatten things up and can leave it on a lot of the time so I did that for a bit. Then I thought I would try the ZYS so I clicked the button and OH MY GOD! Words are not adequate to describe the tonal bliss with a Delta Blues and a ZYS. Creamy, fat, thick, present, controllable, delightful, pleasant, spectacular and so on. I think you get my drift. By comparison the TS9 is anemic and toy like compared to the ZYS.

Voodoo - you built an amazing pedal. Somewhat better at gig volume than at home levels. When the amph is working the ZYS does too. :

[duhvoodooman***]

Very cool to hear that the ZYS is "gigworthy"! Thanks for the report, Spuds! : :

[Spudman***]

I did an open mic tonight but only used my TS9 Tube screamer. What a shame. It sounded like a wispy fart in a tornado compared to the glorious sweet thunder of the ZYS. :

Looks like I'd better get my next pedal board configuration figured out soon. It's amazing how lame the TS9 sounds by comparison.