gorch Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 New FX day! Well, I'm constantly hunting special solutions and tricky ideas. While exploring the Brian May theme for the planning of the Bo Diddley Red Special project I came across the Doxy pedals delivering the quite the best Deacy Amp replica tone available. Moving up and down in mind for months, I came to the decision to order the Doxy Maxx FX pedal. http://www.doxyworld.com/doxy_maxx_fx.html The pedal will be pre-feed with treble boosted signal then going into a Boss DD-6 for nice BHM style stereo echoing which then will go stereo into the Rockman XPR stereo FX-return. I have both a BSM RangeMaster and a BSM BM-Q TB at home for either 70s or 80s Brian May sound. Manuel from Doxyworld said I will be surprised with what I'm going to hear. So, I can't wait for it to arrive. Order was made yesterday, already approved, and will be made on order in 2 weeks time. The story continues...
BlueRedWhite Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 I guess we'll be a few that can't wait to have your review either!!!Congratulations!
gorch Posted July 2, 2012 Author Posted July 2, 2012 Awesome! Yes, please, keep us posted about it.Will do. Just received a note telling that it is ready built and going to be finally tested today. Ships tomorrow if working as designed. Possibly arrives towards the end of the week.
zorrow Posted July 2, 2012 Posted July 2, 2012 I am a HUGE fan of Brian May's tone and style, although I have never tried to copy his sound. But I do use a treble booster (influenced by May, of course) together with a Pignose pre-amp (influenced by Michael Schenker) and some slide licks inspired by George Lynch -which add these open, vocal-like inflexions to my phrasing (or so I like to think). So yes, please let us know. I might after all try to copy May's tone one day. One cannot escape one's heroes!
David B Posted July 2, 2012 Posted July 2, 2012 The pedal reminds me of the "News Of The World" album cover.
zorrow Posted July 3, 2012 Posted July 3, 2012 The pedal reminds me of the "News Of The World" album cover.True!
gorch Posted July 3, 2012 Author Posted July 3, 2012 The pedal reminds me of the "News Of The World" album cover.True!True!Mails from yesterday evening telling shipping will be Wednesday testing turned up no issues.For the master's sound to copy, I have 2 TBs. One BSM Rangemaster for the 70s sound and a BSM BM-Q for 80s onward. So, I might get both worlds to hear.
zenmindbeginner Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 The pedal reminds me of the "News Of The World" album cover.They sampled the cover's background and used the same fonts and color.Epic album cover and the first record I ever bought.Good eye man.
sirDaniel Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 is this a recording rig? If it's live you want, the BHM vox sig amp is pretty damn cool,I await your review. I've never seen those before. ?$
sirDaniel Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 I've found the true magic of the BHM tone comes with the interaction with the guitar at a specific volume, the guitar and amp become one. That usually doesn't happen at "low" manageable volumes.
gorch Posted July 4, 2012 Author Posted July 4, 2012 I've found the true magic of the BHM tone comes with the interaction with the guitar at a specific volume, the guitar and amp become one. That usually doesn't happen at "low" manageable volumes. Well the thing is that the Deacy amp always operates at low volumes. The pedal is supposed to cover the Deacy amp's simple amp design of the time made from NOS components. There are some videos out there. I'm supposed to getting the same circuit as used in the video worked out as a pedal.
sirDaniel Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 I found the red special pedal worked decent for recording, but very compressed live. IMHO, its easier to get a recorded tone, thats why I asked if it was for live or recorded. That being said, this pedal sounds really good and I can't wait for you to get it and review!
gorch Posted July 12, 2012 Author Posted July 12, 2012 Boys and girls, the new play-tool arrived 2 days ago. No need to take pics as it looks exactly as in the Doxy website advertised. Manuel, who makes the Doxy did a tremendous job to recreate the Deacy sound we all love to hear on the Queen records. He is a very nice guy to talk and to deal with. Except for the unbelievably made orchestration of the masters, I now have THE sound live at my fingertips in a simple guitar pedal.The very important and first impressions are that highs are for pussies with this item. In order to achieve the sound on your equipment you have to get rid of anything sounding high. So on your amp turn off the highs, middle to full, and bass to your taste. That will lift the curtain. Don't forget to have your RangeMaster style treble booster at the beginning of the signal chain and feed the amp directly and not within the FX loop. My BSM RM treble booster has a certain amount of warms in it that perfectly serves the MaxxFX pedal. However, the RangeMaster TB was the TB of choice for Brian at the time since there was only one available.- For my stereo driven Rockman XPR I will possibly require an additional equalizer to downturn the highs far more as expected for the installation. The Doxy sound is great even with highs on, but not the original.- Vox AC-15 with the EM86 channel and a Blue adds substantially more bite to it. Very nice.- VAC 25 and '65 Silvertone groal to Tie Your Mother Down. The latter amp's speaker thankfully is unable to create any highs with its age. Thanxs to JohnnyB, who once sold the amp to me, shipping it half the globe.With a Doxy you get a made to order, manually produced, individually setup, and tested product. For anyone who likes the 70s recorded sound of Brian May just for the tone, the Doxy is highly recommended. For anyone exploring the Queen sound the Doxy is a must, honestly. - I'm not affiliated!Since I'm not into exploring Queen repertoire in the way Zenmindbeginner explores VH, I will see what I can do for listening.Well, you see I'm overwhelmed...Edited to add: The sound itself is highly overdriven and very spacey in the high notes 1st to 3rd string without sounding clinic rather warm. Highs on the amp turned on, its a journey to Mars. If that explains it. 4th to 6th string just rock on the solid way. Hit 2 strings at a time and it distorts immediately and hard, but still warm.
BlueRedWhite Posted July 12, 2012 Posted July 12, 2012 Holy cow! Your review does make it more desirable now!!!Congratulations again and start playing with the new sound!!!
zorrow Posted July 13, 2012 Posted July 13, 2012 You're giving me serious GAS, man. I think I'll be next.
gorch Posted July 13, 2012 Author Posted July 13, 2012 Here is an amateurish example of what it sounds like. Stupidly I'd missed to switch the tick on and adjust the bpm. So I managed to play only 2 voices. Finally cut off some of the highs.http://soundcloud.com/gorch_de/doxy-bhm-deacyGear: My goody RS BoDiddley through BSM RM TB, through the Doxy MAXX FX pedal right into my good old Silvertone, mic'ed stereo with a Zoom H2 into Cubase EL6. The crappy old notebook partly came to limits and had some drop outs occur.Next time I'll write the notes down for any voice in advance and switch the tick on to be able to replay any voice to make it more colorfull.All done on a Friday 13th! It could have been worse.
mathman Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 That sounds really cool. Hope you don't mind me jumping in on your thread Gorch. I've been on a Brian May kick for the last month or so. I've been learning some May solos and lately I've been learning the parts for dreamers ball, slowly and trying to get close to the sound using Amplitube on my computer. I'm using their British Copper 30 TB emulation based on a Vox® AC30™ - Copper Panel with a phaser and a seymore duncan powergrid in front of it. I don't have a treble booster in amplitube so I am just experiementing with various other effects. I don't think it is quite as authentic as your Deacy pedal but I'm getting close. One guitar part only of the intro.The solo sectionI haven't bought a real pedal in years but I may look into the deacy.
zorrow Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 I don't mind if gorch minds, he, he. I will be very probably buying this pedal anytime soon, me too. BTW, cool samples!
gorch Posted July 14, 2012 Author Posted July 14, 2012 That's very nice playing Kirk. Dreamer's Ball certainly is one of THE examples for the Deacy amp tone. Mustapha on Jazz is too. I have a book with selected Queen songs broken down into pieces. It contains a CD with slow and regular played parts. Once, I went into getting on the Killer Queen solo. It's bending galore and I gave it up after a while. Later on, I gave it a second try that brought me further ahead. I have left it for a while since and might give it a 3rd try now.Your effects selection sounds really nice.
mathman Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 That's very nice playing Kirk. Dreamer's Ball certainly is one of THE examples for the Deacy amp tone. Mustapha on Jazz is too. I have a book with selected Queen songs broken down into pieces. It contains a CD with slow and regular played parts. Once, I went into getting on the Killer Queen solo. It's bending galore and I gave it up after a while. Later on, I gave it a second try that brought me further ahead. I have left it for a while since and might give it a 3rd try now. Your effects selection sounds really nice. Thanks, Where did you get the book/cd? I wonder if it is still available. I working on Killer queen right now also, using youtube tutorials. I having a lot of fun. Honestly, for years I thought Brian May was beyond my skill-set but I'm starting to get it. The hardest part for me is the layering. Too many parts to learn. I did find these on youtube which has helped a lot.
hardheartedbill Posted July 14, 2012 Posted July 14, 2012 Let us know when you get Good Company worked up
gorch Posted July 14, 2012 Author Posted July 14, 2012 The book: ISBN 0-7935-6697-5Wolf Marshall, The Best Of Queen, Hal Leonhard, Guitar Signature Licks.http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Queen-Step---Step/dp/0793566975/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342285435&sr=8-1&keywords=0793566975
zorrow Posted July 15, 2012 Posted July 15, 2012 Just emailed the guy just to create "human contact", but once his reply arrived, I'll proceed to order. BTW, the guy is in France, so I guess he speaks French. That's cool for me!
gorch Posted July 15, 2012 Author Posted July 15, 2012 Yes, it's from France. Manuel is a very nice guy and a pleasure to deal with. Post sales support was very nice too.
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