I bought the gok and at half the price of a tc electronics sentry it performed half as good. With any of my blackstar amps it didnt do the job. In fact after many ng pedals Ive tried thw only one that really does the job is the sentry
after watching 40+ videos on youtube, here I come, bumping into a video 14 years old and learning as a total begginer im doing it the best way possible... awesome : D i guess no rules really, just let the body discover naturally what suits it the best, and in my case it was this one.. i feel totally retarded if my hand is floating in the air, especially with alternate picking ...
I just received one of these [Crazy Cacti] pedals as a Christmas gift and must say, I was not very pleased with the pedal as it came from the factory. Obviously it is supposed to be a clone of the Fulltone Full Drive 2 MOSFET - it even uses the same setting names on the switches. Reading the FFD2MOSFET operating instructions I noticed that the Comp Cut and FM modes should have a negative feedback loop to control overall gain and freq response and that the FM and Vintage Modes should both share the clipping circuit with the selectable silicon diodes or MOSFET clipping diodes. Yeah - I know, they are FET transistors but a whole lot of research starting last year when I was gifted a large bag of 2N7000 MOSFETS has led me to realize that the way the ZENDRIVE and the FULLTONE circuits used them, that only the protection diodes across the Source and Drain leads were being utilized. Something I see being glossed over in every video review I have seen is that the Caline's FM position does not have either the negative feedback loop or the diode clipping circuit. The only positions that work correctly are the Comp Cut and the Vintage modes. And in the Vintage mode if you switch to the MOSFET position it sounds horrible. (My opinion…) I opened mine up to see what the heck and found two rather large errors. 1. The three position switch is an ON-Off-On type, which means the center position has no connection to either side of the switch. It is a dead (Off) position. The correct switch here is an On-On-On type which, in either extreme, acts just like the On-Off-On switch. The difference is in the center position, where the switch makes contact between a pair of contacts on opposite sides. This is how the Feedback and diodes are switched in & out in the CC & Vin settings, and are both in circuit in the FM (middle) position. Once that switch is changed for the correct one you will now find the FM position has a bit less level boost, and the clipping diodes now work in that position. Now there is one more thing I had to do to mine to make it work like the pedal it is a clone of. The 2N7000 MOSFETs (Q3 & Q4) in mine were installed exactly as the diagram silkscreened on the circuit board showed. Unfortunately that is backwards to the way they need to be. Simply removing them and reinstalling them rotated 180 degrees solved that problem. Now my pedal works like it was supposed to in the first place. The FM & MOSFET position is now my favorite mode. I do find I have to turn the treble up nearly all the way in this mode, but I think that might just be because the neg feedback loop is reducing the HF range along with (maybe) flattening the mids. If you are happy with your Crazy Cacti the way it is then by all means, don't change it, but if like me you find it almost intolerable in the FM position, or when in Vintage mode with MOSFET selected, then you might want to look into these changes. The FM mode with MOSFET clipping is the best sounding position imo once these changes (I hate to call them modifications when they are actually correcting production errors) are performed.
Great, scientific advice! What combination of pick and string strength do you recommend for fast Be Bop Jazz playing? I'm 6'6" with huge hands and really long fingers.. and long forearms. I can't rest my elbow on my Jazz archtop at all, just the forearm. Also, who makes your 7 string? I:m looking for a 7 string Tele (not baritone length though, and I want 52 mm nut and 60 mm E to E @ RH play area). My archtop is an Eastman 7 string converted to a 6 string, and has those dimensions, which fit me perfectly. Thanks, great video!
I like economy picking for 3nps patterns but I really like your idea for how to hold the pick. I applied this years ago in my playing when I originally saw your first video
Another great and detailed video!! I've been looking all around the web to answer a single question, do you know if this model has a cab sim? like the Joyo ones that can also be tweaked to bypass that, thanks a lot in advance!
Hi! I see this video's been around for a good long while! I think I first encountered it way back in late 2020, and I FINALLY watched it. Thanks! This is a truly useful video. I appreciate your brief, clear explanation of the mechanics of how the fingers, hand, wrist, and arm work together to keep the picking process as simple and streamlined as possible. "Less is More!" ;-) I'll note for the record: I am a quite accomplished piano player with decades of experience, as well as a proficient violinist (and used to play the French horn, too). I've been frustrated for years at my inability to get beyond a sort of late-beginner stage on the guitar. For one thing, I got thrown by the major third interval between the G and B strings that breaks the long parade of fourths between all the other strings. [To a pianist or even a violinist, that seems strangely illogical! Though it's also part of the special magic of the guitar, I know!] And I also had an exceptionally hard time with picking. Maybe from a piano background, I've been instinctively better at finger-picking than at controlling a pick. Anyway, recently, I've been going "back to basics," and am trying to learn the guitar from the ground up, and to unlearn some of the things I taught myself wrong over the years. And finally, it's kind of working, I think! [For instance, I FINALLY know my way around the fretboard!] And I have no doubt that your video will help in this long-delayed process. [By the way you speak, you sound just like one of the law students I worked with at my job over the past year. As with him, I might guess that you're Canadian - but as with him, also, I might be wrong, because he turned out to be from I think upstate Michigan instead.] Anyway, thanks again for helping us all out - including "slow learners" like myself. ;-)
so the only thing to this that im a bit iffy with, is when you have string jumps, multi string bends etc. also, i feel this really cuts into economy picking, maybe for a progression like you play, but for a full arpeggion style lick/riff. i dunno. i feel this will limit your playing for anything other than this. Also, in regards to tucking the fingers under, you loose balance and strength. but you also take all the control for the volume and tone knobs, not to mention the pick up switcher. I feel if you looked more into economy picking you may find what youre really looking for to get that timing down and tighten up the left and right synchronis
hello i want to buy this pedal but i need to ask something, do our effects get deleted when we unplug the power cord or are they permanently registered thanks.
Explain and demonstrate do you pick in a vertical straight up and down motion or a 45° degree angle when playing? I'm a beginner learning how to play a Headless Strandberg Boden classic with angle Frets. Reply ASAP
i want to use the blue channel from cali dual and red channel from brown sound 3. thanks i just hold the switch at brown 3 to bypass the blue channel. right?
