RE: message from Electro Harmonix!!

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: message from Electro Harmonix!!

>>What's your opinion on the black-finger? I was curiously looking at those in a
catalog awhile back, wondered how they sounded. None of the local vendors carry
'em.<<

I don't think I'd've put this design into a stomp box- the adjustments are capable of quite a range of results, way beyond the bit of squish one typically needs on a bass. it feels like a rack unit. there're two sorts of compression available, and different fixed ratios for both, so you can use it in "LED" mode for a fairly modern fast response, or "lamp" mode for a gentler sound with a longer release. switching between what I imagine to be two fixed ratios makes much more difference in the latter mode and there's an immediate and enormous level change, which makes the thing difficult to use on stage. also, I noticed some unpleasant distortion at one extreme of the settings, that sounded like a solid-state stage, despite the thing having two 12ax7's poking out of it.

there are good settings to be found, for sure, but for a bass player it'll be set-&-forget. a rackmount stereo version would fly off the shelves, but I'm just not sure about it on the floor. still, nice unit, pretty cheap, and it's great to see EH back in business, not least because they appear to be knocking out their own tubes now too.

d.

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