Comments for Tales From Fat Tone Guitars

Comment on Can You Yelp Yelp? by kareem

kareem — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:20:33 +0000

i have only had good experiences with fattone.
they went way out of their way to help me and i let everyone that i know about phil and his staff.

one real satisfied customer here. ka

Comment on Fat Tone’s Top 10 Effect Pedals of 2009 by K Campi

K Campi — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:51:35 +0000

What about ACEffects? They have been around forever, hand made in the US and no one writes about them?

Comment on Shoutout To Gearmanndude by paul

paul — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:49:07 +0000

I can appricate the vol of work GMD has rendered, he has set up some of the more interesting tests and comparisions on the web. My only problem with so many of them is the little one speaker amps. They are thin, tinny, and all midrange. I do not care they are high dollar names. Even those recording through little amps who think they are sounding lust like a high watter multi-cab are fooling themselves, apparently. The matter of an OD is how it pushes the front end of a tube circuit, not how it sounds clean and on, like a light gain box much less through a single speaker, low wattage amp.

Even if you fry that little amp it is still low wattage and single speaker and that is limited in sonic range. Sure a little a little champ produces a great tube when cooked, but it is at best a one trick pony. Note Jeff Beck and Robin Trower’s recent forray into little amps, bad tone, light, midrange, no balls or real depth.
It takes wattage to push low frequency, a basic law of sound physics. the larger the speaker and more of them the greater the frequency spectrum and dimensional quality of the tone. Again sinple physics, a larger speaker produces more lows than a small one. A single speaker, open back, is just mid range w no real watts to push any headroom. Congrats to GMD for all his work but does it all have to be 95% a little Dr Z?

Comment on Campbell American by Campbell American Precix Guitar

Campbell American Precix Guitar — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:13:34 +0000

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Comment on That Sputter You Hear in Your Head by shotfromguns

shotfromguns — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:30:34 +0000

That sounds like a great tool for recording purposes

Comment on TV Yellow by andy@gmail.com

andy@gmail.com — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:15:55 +0000

Powerful but beautiful!

Comment on Distortion And Overdrive by EffectsBay

EffectsBay — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:12:05 +0000

Phil

This is a great article on distortion and overdrive. I remember looking at the MJM Phantom Overdrive a little while ago.. but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

Comment on 5 Great Big Muff Style Fuzzes by Bing

Bing — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:30:34 +0000

MUSKET!!!! I got it two weeks ago from FTG and still loving it! Tons of versatility. Endless possibilities!

Comment on 5 Great Big Muff Style Fuzzes by Roscoe

Roscoe — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:43:27 +0000

Best Big Muff style pedal I’ve ever heard is “The Sweet” from Frantone. Fran worked as a designer at EH before starting her company. “The Sweet” has incredible bottom and is meticulously built.

Comment on Fat Tone’s Top 10 Effect Pedals of 2009 by GTR Music

GTR Music — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:25:41 +0000

How about EHX effects pedals?