D-Day wrote:Anyways you guys know I'm not Mr Salesmanship all day in here so let me give the pitch one time. The Ape Blaster has two nasty agressively clipped fuzz stages followed by a massive mosfet boost that beats the fuck out of your amp. So it's brutally dirty, hits the input as hard as anything ever hit an amp and yet maintains uncanny string clarity for all your fancy chords. Lastly it's not a clone with a couple of capacitors cleverly swapped. Oh it's nothing fancy or particularly brilliant mind you, I'm a total cromag in this shit, but it's not a Muff, FF, Colorsound or any of the other popular Doomclones. It sounds FILTHY with a Matamp/real Orange. There.
My oldest dog is now all fragile and sick so I hang with her just about 24/7. I've been taking custom work and busting clones to fill the days. Here be a Sonic Titan I built up for myself to compare to a schematic Nick drew up ages ago. I thought it turned out neat looking.
i haven't bought a single dirt pedal since i got an ape blaster prototype several years ago. seriously, this thing is the shit. sure, i've been too broke to really buy pedals, and there's been some that i wanted. but i was on a desperate quest before that and this was the pedal that i needed. it's loud, it's heavy as shit, and no other fuzz i've owned has been able to maintain balance and clarity in chords and across frequencies at high gain like this thing can. i can hit a low drop b power chord as a drone and play a higher lead over it and this pedal manages to be balanced and clear with both. other pedals i had would throw out a crushing low chord and the high notes would be totally lost and quiet when i tried to play over it. or more complex chords would be muddy, with the lower notes overpowering the rest or an open drone string would be all you'd hear.
i know i go on and on singing the praises of this thing, but for a couple of years i was a broke ass fool buying five or six dirt pedals a year chasing a unicorn. i got this and it delivers. it is the unicorn. it's been at least two years now. which means i've probably saved $1500 not buying dirt pedals trying to find what this thing does. currently i stack it with a badascan in front, which is absolute sonic heaven.
to be fair, both black arts and mr. dunwich here have some dirt pedals that i'm absolutely dying to throw money at when i can afford them, so it's not like i'm done buying dirt, but the ape blaster really delivers the goods. it's open and raw and super heavy and reflects the character of my amp incredibly well.
new05002 wrote:Darren should make a DLUX version with Fuzz, Tone, and Volume controls!
D-Day wrote:GORILLA CANNON
DoS, I can take money
any time 
About tone controls. I tried! I didn't like any at the time. Maybe I can figure something out but everything I tried tamed the rawness and rawness is what I'm about.
i'm actually super into the one knob thing. if there was a deluxe, i'd just want to set it how this sounds. it's a primal scream of a pedal. an angry caveman. i'd be worried extra knobs would interfere with that.
although i do think darren should get another pedal or two out there. there's been some in the works, yes?
) I've been known to spend an hour or two with it jamming variations of "Into the Night"s opening riff. Normally around 2-3 in the morning.
