What is your take on the Mellowtone stuff?

[dorfmeister]

I know there is a Mellowtone connection here.

I am finding the prices, the uniqueness of the concepts, and the designs of the pedals to be intriguing (I really love the look of the wood-grain Singing Tree).

Especially interested in the Tree, the Meep2, and the Wolf Computer.

What is your take on those and how do they compare and play with the DE pedals? How is the build quality. What do they offer that is unique?

[Ghost Hip]

Excellent stuff, I have the three knobber singing tree, I can't really compare sounds with Devi's cause I haven't tried any of her overdrives. (But hopefully my next pedal is a KP!) Very organic sound, nothings gone wrong so far and the graphic is killer. One cool thing is when I turn the gain knob it makes a scratchy sound like rubbing against bark on a tree. Pretty cool effect especially with some reverse delay. Cleans up well with the volume knob for some 'About a Girl' tones and goes from tube transparent overdrive/boost to distortion-like crunch, but still very much overdrive.

Woot Mellowtone!

[tigerdriver]

i own this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLdBjmRfog[/youtube]
which is the high five and a sorta-singing tree in one box.
the video fails to capture the harmonic percolated greatness it can produce with everything cranked. i think steve albini would approve.
of course, there's only this one and it's mine

[dorfmeister]

i own this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLdBjmRfog[/youtube]
which is the high five and a sorta-singing tree in one box.
the video fails to capture the harmonic percolated greatness it can produce with everything cranked. i think steve albini would approve.
of course, there's only this one and it's mine

So is the Singing Tree supposed to be a similar circuit to the legendary Harmonic Percolator?

Albini was pretty tough on the Barge Concepts updating of the HarPerc.

http://www.gearwire.com/bp1-albini-comparison.html

By the way Electrical Audio (Albini's Studio) has a pretty good discussion board y'all might like too.

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/

[dorfmeister]

Devi Ever search on Electrical Audio's board.

http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/search ... de=results

I notice that at least a couple of members here are already there!

[tigerdriver]

no, i don't mean to imply that it is a HP clone, it isn't at all...but i had the barge pedal, and the coyote box is more what i expected it to sound like. that is just at extreme settings, though.

sort of a related story, when i tried to sell the barge on ebay, the guy who owns the harmonic percolator trademark (not the actual inventor) had my auction PULLED, because apparently nobody on the internet can type the words 'harmonic percolator' without his consent. i found this pretty hilarious that this guy has nothing better to do...you don't see dunlop doing that to the 10000 handmade fuzz face clones on ebay.

[Communarchy]

Mellowtone is cool, I have a wizard fountain which is a fuzz that you can blend a clean signal into. Cool graphics, fine build quality. Definately high quality stuff. I'm looking into a singing tree overdrive next because, firstly, the name rocks, and secondly I hear it has a mean midrange growl on it.

On the second demo on my bands' page you can hear a REAL LIVE wizard fountain in action creating the wall of sound at the end of the song. pimp pimp...http://www.myspace.com/nightsband

[dub]

offtopic:
That barge pedal has an imput buffer that the original doesn't have (which quite heavily effects the results). Albini mentions putting anything infront of his pedal changes the sound dramatically.
Barge say you can turn it off, but I haven't heard any samples.

I've got one of the chuck collins ones, its a very musical pedal on the lower settings, highly responsive to picking attack. The kind of thing you could leave on all the time if you were a blues wanker. With the sliders all the way up I was getting feedback across the room from a practice amp. madness. no wonder Albini uses a noise gate with it.

[tigerdriver]

still offtopic: yes you can turn off the buffer, but that doesn't make it sound any better

[Bellyheart]

I'm into it. I was set on the White Spider, but now the Wolfcomputer seems to have more of the tone I want. That could be wrong considering I've not heard or played either live, but I imagine having both wouldn't hurt.