I just ordered the Special Cranker

Pine Apple Slim

Pine Apple Slim

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Yea, I know. I have an OD sickness.
But Im really liking what I hear on the demos, and its so cheap....
To me its seems to be a very natural cranked amp sound. I think its gonna be great with the Carr or the old SF Bassman.
I also want to try running a mini FF in front of it.
Will report.
 
Fired it up this morning. 1st impressions.
This is a good all rounder for light/med gain into the Carr @ 2 1/2-3 vol, so super clean Fender setting. Theres no radical eq curve or nose, just adds grit pretty evenly across the range. Its great for "ragged but right" dimed amp kinda tones when you give it "More". If you're looking for something more refined its probably not for you. It gets flubby and dark the higher you go on the gain and past noon I had to turn the tone on the pedal way to the treble. But I was playing the SG, might not be so much so with single coils. Also I had six unbuffered pedals on the board and 20' cable, so Idk it may be a diff story with a buffer in the mix. With the pedal's gain at round 9 o'clock its just enough hair and is still very responsive to dynamics and is a good "edge of breakup" place to be, and stacked well with the mini FF.
I like it so far. It works for an "always on" at low gain or a dimed amp sound without busting your eardrums.
 
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I havnt tried it yet into a low headroom amp like my little Crate VC(20w el84s) or the Micro Terror, but my instincts tell me it would just be overkill. Like the reviews say, its an OD not a boost.
 
I tried the Sp Cranker with the Bassman/Cali 15 and the White Falcon. Set the Crankers gain pretty low, treble around to 2 o'clock or so. With the amp turned up loud enough to really start working I got some big tones, esp when I kicked on the FF. Then I stepped on the Protein and the Falcon went to the edge of feedback and I was in Hendrix at Woodstock mode.
Used the OBN Procession for Tremelo/Verb worked really nice set subtly with the mix low.
 
Funny - I have ONE DS/OD pedal (Tech 21 RK5) and I'm still exploring all the options in that. I will never understand how the folks with a half-dozen evern find "their" sound!
 
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