Created a page to keep track of the stuff that I do with the Schumann PLL. Since it’s such a unique beast, and I’ve had such an obsession with it for so long, I figured it needed its own home.
Schumann PLL Page currently includes:
The SonicVI Champion Fuzz Unit, the only exact clone of the vintage and rare Barnes and Mullins Fuzz Unit (aka:B&M Fuzz Unit, Barnes and Mullins Champion Fuzz, G.B. Fuzz Unit, CMI Fuzz Unit, Protraffic Fuzz Unit).
Initial thoughts:This is a pedal that just randomly appeared in my universe…. maybe it was kismet. SonicVI was doing a small run of this pedal and posted on the D*A*M forum about making them available. The pedigree seemed nice, the build quality looked impressive, and the price was more than reasonable. I waited patiently and got excited when my name came up on the list. My initial reservations about the size of the pedal and the layout quickly melted away as I began to explore the fuzzy bliss…
All the new stuff is in place and working. The ‘Test Equipment‘ page has been updated to reflect all the changes.
I’ve been doing test runs and things are going pretty well so it’s time to get on the review wagon again. I’ve finished a review on the Lovetone Cheese Source so expect to see that in a couple of days.
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!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).
Initial thoughts:I acquired this pedal in a trade and it’s been lurking here in the periphery for a bit. It’s one of the pedals that presents so many options that it causes problems for me to capture the feeling of it with a couple of minutes of video and a couple of dozen words. That isn’t to say I won’t try, but it’s always with a bit of hesitation that I tackle these types of pedals.
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