Sunday, November 15, 2009
I Know You Wanted It....
Following the advice given by Bjorn himself, in the interview here, with Six String Soul, I am going to Photoshop (not meant to be picture perfect) the stacking setups of his pedals that he recommends. He says that "stacking" is a craze to some gearheads, and that the above combination (described in the interview as: PGC>MGMV>EGDM>LGW) is known as his "Green Sound". He says the PGC (Pale Green Compressor) is used to give a hint of sustain and keep control of peaks, so exact distortion levels can be set accurately. MGMV or MInt Green MIni Vibe (I quote) is used to give just a flickering of vibrato at the tail of phrases. LGW (Little Green Wonder) is there for just a tad of breakup as controlled by PGC. EGDM is finally set to give moderate distortion of it's own but in conjunction with the other pedals it adds just a protruding upper midrange to the LGW sound... just enough to make it standout. The 'Green Sound' allows several levels of distortion with or without compression as well as straight sound. I thought it would be nice to decode the descriptions for one and all (newbies) and lay them out visually as Bjorn describes it... so you can actually see what he puts together visually. Next up.. visual of: PGC>LGW>DRD. (Just for giggles and ....)