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Timothy: based on Paul Cochrane's Timmy overdrive
The Timmy is a hand-made boost/overdrive pedal. Originally it couldn’t be bought in any shop or webshop. The Timmy had to be ordered by contacting its designer Paul Cochrane personally. The rave reviews on The Gear Page and other internet forums and its cheap price resulted in long waitlists. Boutique but not expensive! These days you can buy the pedal in shops.
The Timmy is smaller than its larger predecessor, “Tim” (with boost and effects loop), which has been discontinued. Their names reportedly are based on Tim The Enchanter, a wizard in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
It’s considered by some to be the best overdrive pedal in the world, attributed to its transparent character and mild crunch. It’s a very flexible pedal that goes along with single coil pickups and humbuckers and stacks well with other overdrives. You can use it as a clean boost.
Analyzing The Hype: Paul Cochrane Timmy (Wired Guitarist)
The controls are:
A switch that lets you choose between two kinds of symmetrical clipping (more/less gain) and asymmetrical clipping (where one side of the wave is clipping differently from the other).
There has been some controversy around pedals from other manufacturers (Vemuram, Lovepedal), which alledgedly are copies/clones of the Timmy circuit.
Fractal Audio's Timothy model is modeled after the original pedal. Bass has been assigned to Low Cut and Treble to Tone.
About CPU:
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Timothy: based on Paul Cochrane's Timmy overdrive
The Timmy is a hand-made boost/overdrive pedal. Originally it couldn’t be bought in any shop or webshop. The Timmy had to be ordered by contacting its designer Paul Cochrane personally. The rave reviews on The Gear Page and other internet forums and its cheap price resulted in long waitlists. Boutique but not expensive! These days you can buy the pedal in shops.
The Timmy is smaller than its larger predecessor, “Tim” (with boost and effects loop), which has been discontinued. Their names reportedly are based on Tim The Enchanter, a wizard in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
It’s considered by some to be the best overdrive pedal in the world, attributed to its transparent character and mild crunch. It’s a very flexible pedal that goes along with single coil pickups and humbuckers and stacks well with other overdrives. You can use it as a clean boost.
Analyzing The Hype: Paul Cochrane Timmy (Wired Guitarist)
The controls are:
- Bass: cuts bass (model: Low Cut)
- Gain: sets the amount of overdrive (model: Drive)
- Volume: controls the output level (model: Level)
- Treble: cuts treble (model: Tone)
Cliff:
"They are labeled Bass and Treble but they are Bass Cut and Treble Cut controls."
"They are labeled Bass and Treble but they are Bass Cut and Treble Cut controls."
Manual:
“The bass control is pre-distortion. Most pedals roll off the low end before you distort the signal to keep things tight and clear. A lot of low-end distortion can get real muddy real quick. But what this means is you don’t have the low end when you need it for cleaner settings. The bass control will allow you to keep the low end for the cleaner settings, and dial it out for the good crunchy stuff.”
“The treble control is post distortion. Like the bass circuit most pedals will have a preset hi end roll off to keep the pedal from being fizzy and noisy when distorting, but you’ll lose the hi freqs for the cleaner settings. Being able to control the pre and post EQ gives you the ability to kill the evil mid bump a lot of pedals have preset into them.”
“The bass control is pre-distortion. Most pedals roll off the low end before you distort the signal to keep things tight and clear. A lot of low-end distortion can get real muddy real quick. But what this means is you don’t have the low end when you need it for cleaner settings. The bass control will allow you to keep the low end for the cleaner settings, and dial it out for the good crunchy stuff.”
“The treble control is post distortion. Like the bass circuit most pedals will have a preset hi end roll off to keep the pedal from being fizzy and noisy when distorting, but you’ll lose the hi freqs for the cleaner settings. Being able to control the pre and post EQ gives you the ability to kill the evil mid bump a lot of pedals have preset into them.”
A switch that lets you choose between two kinds of symmetrical clipping (more/less gain) and asymmetrical clipping (where one side of the wave is clipping differently from the other).
There has been some controversy around pedals from other manufacturers (Vemuram, Lovepedal), which alledgedly are copies/clones of the Timmy circuit.
Fractal Audio's Timothy model is modeled after the original pedal. Bass has been assigned to Low Cut and Treble to Tone.
Cliff:
"To get "flat" turn Low Cut all the way down and Tone all the way up."
"To get "flat" turn Low Cut all the way down and Tone all the way up."
Personal note:
I've never played the Timmy. But I did play the Venuram Jan Ray once, through a small Hook amp, and it sounded fantastic. I must admit though that I don't quite see the benefit of a full transparent drive in the Axe-Fx or AX8.
I've never played the Timmy. But I did play the Venuram Jan Ray once, through a small Hook amp, and it sounded fantastic. I must admit though that I don't quite see the benefit of a full transparent drive in the Axe-Fx or AX8.
About CPU:
- Fractal Audio's Drive models take up varying amounts of CPU.
- When a Drive block is engaged, CPU percentage will rise during playing, because CPU usage is "amplitude dependent".
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