All things driving
by Rhoy Pamparo on Jan.20, 2009, under Personal Thoughts
of Winter Driving,
So I finally bought new set of winter tires (General Altimax Arctic). Now, I kept asking myself, “Why didn’t I buy these things before”? I am now a believer! I am now having so much fun confidently driving in snow & ice. I am looking forward to the places that we will go to this winter. I’m sure that it will be fun!
of Hermida Zendrive,
So far so good. I re-arranged my pedal board last night to fit the Zendrive in my chain. I am still unsure how I am going to use it in the band context as my SFX-03 is really making it hard for me. I will be using it at rehearsal volume on Thursday and live on Sunday. I will have to keep my judgment until then.
January 20th, 2009 on 7:11 pm
Bro! Good luck with the Zendrive. I make it the first drive after my compressor or wah, and i give it gain about 10 o’clock, volume just a touch above unity, and tone about 1, and voice about 2. The midhump works great for light leads and a nice crunch that cleans up to a sparkle with your guitar’s volume knob. In fact, I like this so much I took my TS9 off the board because the Zen lets you dial in how much mids you want!
It sounds sweetest with gain about 2, very sweet, but too hard for my playing at church
January 21st, 2009 on 7:34 am
Thanks for the tip Larry! Still experimenting, I am hovering the gain around 12-2, tone around 11-2, and voice around 10-1. I put it after the Sparkle Drive since I am kinda using it primarily to boost the signal from my Tele.
January 21st, 2009 on 11:12 am
Oooh, Zendrive! Such a great box. I’d like to hear it in conjunction w/ the Sparkle Drive. Audio clips?
January 25th, 2009 on 6:02 am
hey mark, I’m still playing around with the Sparkle Drive with the Zendrive. I would definitely give a better review of this setting once I get more mileage, and maybe with audio clips, too!
January 25th, 2009 on 12:52 pm
I would try the Sparkle into the Zen. With the blend knob you can make it pretty transparent, but with some drive, then have the zen ‘enhance’ your tone with the amp quality.
Then again, the zen sounds good by itself, or pushing your amp. I love that thing.