Oh yes, got things mixed up thereAFAIK the Gladio is not a clone, but a “Dumble in a box”.
Oh yes, got things mixed up thereAFAIK the Gladio is not a clone, but a “Dumble in a box”.
I guess EJ must be stupid...Bullshit. Nobody can be that stupid.
I guess EJ is talking about battery sag, this is a common issue with less quality batteries.....alkaline batteries will sag a lot less than zinc caused by a different internal resistance. Some manufacturers of power supplies such as Voodoo Labs included this "effect" to their products.....The ability to speak does not make one intelligent. Nor does the ability to play guitar. Idunno if EJ's stupid or not, but I've met plenty of talented people in my life who've been sucked in by snake-oil wholesale. People I'd otherwise have thought were relatively intelligent.
Maybe it's possible that varying aspects of 9V batteries (such as inconsistent voltages across its lifespan, I guess?) can have an effect on a powered analog circuit. The entire concept just sets off my BS meter, though. And hard. Not to say that it necessarily is bullshit, I guess, but my immediate reaction is still something like...
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lol yeah, just like those chumps buying NOS Mullards.The ability to speak does not make one intelligent. Nor does the ability to play guitar. Idunno if EJ's stupid or not, but I've met plenty of talented people in my life who've been sucked in by snake-oil wholesale. People I'd otherwise have thought were relatively intelligent.
Maybe it's possible that varying aspects of 9V batteries (such as inconsistent voltages across its lifespan, I guess?) can have an effect on a powered analog circuit. The entire concept just sets off my BS meter, though. And hard. Not to say that it necessarily is bullshit, I guess, but my immediate reaction is still something like...
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I guess EJ is talking about battery sag, this is a common issue with less quality batteries.....alkaline batteries will sag a lot less than zinc caused by a different internal resistance. Some manufacturers of power supplies such as Voodoo Labs included this "effect" to their products.....
The impedance of the battery is what I've always heard is different and can cause some circuits to sound different - usually the older, discrete transistor circuits is where the big changes happen....
and test/compared it with a "reactive load box" that only does the voice coil impedance rise up but not the resonance hump (such as the cheap Torpedo Capture) and claims they are all the same, such as Glenn Fricker...... (which is not the case, I told him back then, explained it in tech detail, but his fanbois wont listen....as always)lol yeah, just like those chumps buying NOS Mullards.
Battery sag is an effect not affecting all circuits the same.....for some people, this can be pleasing, for others not. Alkalines have not much battery sag, that's why EJ seems to not like them for his pedals. He can marketing his wisdom as he wants, we can now discuss if it's important to explain the tech details to his "clients" or "fans" or if his clients should know it already I remember n old REH or HotLicks video were he explaines the effect of different batteries in his pedals....this was 20+ years ago - so I guess he did a lot of times. Now it all depends on the knowledge of the common people to decide what is needed to their tone and what not. I see a lot of guitarists who buy a shit lot of gear and think it would make them "better", not knowing what they could do with it.....soThat's right. Power Supplies and Batteries have Impedance (the output impedance of a PS is the ratio of change in output voltage to change in load current). If there was a parameter to change the virtual Power Supply Impedance at the Drive Block, we would see if it has some real effect or if it is just another cork sniffer stuff. If it has audible effect, I guess that it would be very subtle and irrelevant to the overall tone
I built a Fuzz Face back in the '90s with generic, Mouser supplied Ge transistors of the type required by the schematic. FF circuits are particularly sensitive to the Hfe of the transistors, and can really sound great or horrible or anywhere in between depending on the two transistors' relative Hfe. Mine sounded meh until the battery started to die, and the thing started biasing itself into the zone, and it sounded F***ING AMAZING. I'd save all my 9V batteries from other gear so that I would have a supply of almost-dead batteries to feed the thing....I think the EJ Battery legend is just perpetrated in a wrong way.
If two batteries of equal quality, potentially even from the same factory line just with different logos attached to them, everyone would agree there's no difference.
But man, even my ears can hear a shitty battery. There are batteries that cost 5€ here in Finland. And there are ones that cost less than 1€. The latter die at any moment, and last for 1/5 as long. And they can really sound different in an analog pedal. When the battery starts to die, tone starts sucking. A quality battery won't have that problem, whereas the shitty battery can sound questionable right out of the box.