Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Screaming Butah!

My Ibanez TS7 & CMATmods Butah are good friends. I've been enjoying the Butah as a stand alone pedal, it serves me very well as a cruncher for single coil tones. It simply means, the drive generated is slightly hotter than the typical OD unit (think Tubescreamer) but isn't as hot as a distortion. The Butah is wonderful for single coil tones, simply great for that jangle with more definition & sensitivity for solo inducements, not just rhythm work. It sounds like the drive sits on top of your favourite cleans & not intruding into what you already like to hear.

Things get really interesting when the TS7 is used to boost the Butah's drive. Instead of masking the inherent Butah drive, it adds more to saturation rather than churning out a fresh drive voicing. This pairing aleviates the drive sensitivity to shredability levels; that's what appeals to me.

4 comments:

Ijau D. Koceng said...

it's still a funny name for a pedal :)

subversion.sg said...

he he... it's not the case back in its birth place :-)

Ijau D. Koceng said...

and when i thought MOEN was a funny name for a pedal... and yet there's another

have u ever tried MOEN pedals?

subversion.sg said...

yup... tried them. so far, nothing outstanding.