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CHEESE SOURCE™
SOURCE
The Source is an instant flash-back to that dynamic, singing
late 60's / early 70's brown sound that is associated with countless
classic records spanning the whole musical spectrum. It offers unparalleled
purity and touch sensitivity and an uncannily warm "valvey" grunt with the
absence of the unnatural fizz associated with most overdrive pedals. It imparts
a tangible sense of electricity (so prized by samplists in vintage
recordings and so elusive with computer-based technology and will make any
new guitar or bass sound 40 years older!
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Three classic ways to use the Source with a guitar are for snap
crackle and "pop" into a clean amp, dripping fat into a cooking amp and
controlled feedback with singing harmonics into a driven amp. On bass, its
soft rounded distortion and inherent compression makes it reminiscent of the
toneful and plummy psych era bass sounds. In the studio it can perform amazing
transformations and blended with the straight signal can be used to add a touch
of dirt and girth to those unfashionable clean cut sounds!
CHEESE
The Cheese is a loving homage to the buzzy, gorgeous and
harmonically rich early fuzz. However, while having many of the classic
characteristics that every fuzz fan will relate to it goes beyond to create
an absolutely distinct character of its own. Its innovative controls can
take it from almost "gated" break-up to overkill of shred proportions. Far
from being just a guitar effect the Cheese is eminently useful for seeing
to any sound with the temerity to be naff (with particularly amusing
consequences in the lower regions). To lovers of "furrrzze bass" it offers
thunderous, buttock-clenching mayhem. The Cheese works exceptionally well in
the fx loop of the Meatball and can transform virtually any instrument into a
super-squelchy synth with no tracking worries (especially with an octaver immediately
before it for the classic double octave effect).
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