man that's $200 sitting there and I don't LOVE it. I hear that's the real king of Fender on 7 tone. Xpeedo XMF08TT at 210gr will be your answer for the lightest 2 side SPD clipless pedal. IF you can handle what it brings to the tone, it does sound organic and better than anything Boss or Dunlop.ĭepending on the day, the Lightspeed is for sale, and then it's not. The Lightspeed probably sounds great in a band mix, I just don't do that anymore. It masks some of the tone and adds other things, fundamentally changing the sound of my amp which is what I did NOT want. supposedly the most transparent OD out there. After trying a lot of pedals, I drank the Kool-Aid and bought a Lightspeed. ![]() But, I can't get away with the volume on 7 so I need a pedal to replicate that at 3. I just wish it had a few more tricks up it's sleeve to make it a bit more broad in what it can do.I have a Vibrolux Reverb that after some serious tone shaping, is the best sounding thing I've ever heard in my life. Still, I may pick up another Lightspeed in the future. I just wish it had a few more tricks up it's sleeve to make it a bit more broad in what it can Sanfi4u! Red Witch Empress Chorus > Memory Lane Jr. Unit67 > TD-X > EHX Ram's Head Reissue > ToL I'm thinking my board will look like the following: If it handles the low gain stuff and gives my a fundamentally different tone from the ToL at higher gain (more open and organic) all will be well. I'm hoping the TD-X will pick up the slack. At low gain it lacks "tube like" character but sounds ok. Playing by myself it sounds a bit harsh, boxy and almost metallic at higher gain although in the mix it just sings. The Tree of Life is incredibly versatile but I'm not sure what I think of it at higher gain. By itself it doesn't give much in the way of options although it stacks well with other drives. The Lightspeed was pretty great in many ways but felt pretty "loose" at times and doesn't really compress. Pedal built by local amp guru Alan Hokom at Athos music. The Sun Face is just beautiful but I struggle with the noise I also have a Vick Audio Tree of Life and a Sun Face on my board and I've been struggling across all of them to find the tones I want so I've kind of decided to blow things up and start over. I'm really excited to see what I think of the TD-X. and it'll still sing.Īctually, I just sold the Lightspeed to fund part of my new gear purchases (Dry Bell Unit67 and the TD-X). I could get the gain lower still actually. The guitar was a Strandberg Salen with JBE pickups, hence it's not as single coil sounding as I'd have liked. I suspect they are made for gigging and not. More specifically the volume knob needed to be up a fair amount for the pedal to remotely sound good or to even have much overdrive. I recorded this with a Cali76, TDX, a delay, and the Iridium. So in the past I bought 2 different Greer pedals (Tomahawk and a Royal Velvet) and both quickly flipped them as they were incredibly loud. ![]() Not like the BuffaloFX Evolution, or a Muff, or a BEOD/Dirty Shirley. ![]() ![]() It doesn't do the "sustain at high gain" thing very much either. It's well into the classic rock style, but doesn't compress as much as some other pedals. Even at high gain, it's not screamy or chuggy. I love the TDX for both low gain and high gain sounds, though I tend to keep it on low gain (with some grit), and let it push my Muff a bit more to get the extra harmonic content. I don't know how else to put it, but at really low gain settings, you can barely tell that the pedal is on. The TDX isn't smooth like a blues breaker, but it's also not like a Rat. Is this true? If so, then that's the main difference. The clips I've heard of the LS seem to suggest a very gritty tone. I don't have a Greer LS, but I do have the TDX.
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