Different strokes for different folks. In some situations I can see them being a great fit! Although I didn't like mine as a neck pickup, I actually liked the bridge pickup because I usually played it with a lot of gain, , too.

The Spires has two different fuzz circuits in it that you can switch back and forth, so he was comparing them

Haha, just something I improvised when recording the video.

Thank you! I hope he takes that inspiration and writes and plays some great music of his own!

Here are what all of the amps and guitars were: Steinberger clone with Kiesel Allan Holdsworth bridge pickup Kiesel ZM8 Zeus 8-string multiscale with Kiesel Beryllium bridge pickup Kiesel ZM6 Zeus 6-string multiscale bass with Kiesel soapbar pickups (neck pickup used in video) Fractal FM9 used for amps: Clean guitar: Deluxe Reverb, Deluxe Reverb dynacab IR Dirty guitar: Marshall JTM45, 4x12 1960TV dynacab IR Clean drop tuned: Fender 5F8 Tweed Bright, Deluxe Reverb dynacab IR Dirty drop tuned: Marshall JTM45, 4x12 1960TV dynacab IR Heavy drop tuned: FAS 6160, OTTO M35A OS 800 IR Bass: FAS Bass, York Audio AMPG 410 HS Mix 07 IR

I bet it'll sound really hairy

I'm pretty sure the only difference in the Blumes circuit is the input capacitor is a different value that cuts less bass. When you have a bassier signal entering a distortion circuit, you get more distortion. It's inevitable. From my playing around with the pedal, it does clean up just as well as the Plumes. It just saturates faster as you turn up the gain knob and the highest setting sounds more distorted.

@@Poparad Maybe? Earthquaker's marketing says something about the gain being doubled. I don't know if that means "the Blumes has double the gain of the Plumes" or "Both the Blumes and Plumes have double the gain of the original TS".

Having gone back through the website and through the manuals, they definitely say that the Blumes has increased gain from the Plumes.

On guitar, I think I’d agree for most typical applications. It definitely seems Blumes has a gain structure designed with bass in mind, and it actually seems to compliment Plumes on guitar well, as they each carve out room for each other on their respective instruments in the mix.

I was wondering how they would stack.I was also thinking that the Plumes would stack well with the White Light.

I read your user name in the voice of Sagat from Street Fighter.

Always good to hear from you, James!

I've never used their hard cases, only the soft ones. When I bought this board, Pedaltrain was only making bags with no pockets (a terrible idea) so I bought a Gator mixing board bag that was a perfect fit. Pedaltrain has since returned to adding pockets to their bags.

Yes! I copied them over myself from my Magicstomp to the FM3. I uploaded them to the Fractal "Axechange" website under the preset name "Allan's Magic."

The settings were a little different for each. In most cases, I had the gain/fuzz knobs on max and tone between 75%-100%.

@@Poparad ahh ok thank you so much for the clarification. No idea if it'd be worth the hassle but if you have any more EQD dirt/fuzzes you could throw in it'd be awesome to do a Pt 2 to this, but would be even cooler if all the knobs were set to noon. I feel like if the settings aren't consistent it's hard to really gauge just how different pedals are between each other, but thats just my own opinion. Either way this vid is awesome! Would love to hear a Sound Shank vs a Zap Machine or Tusk or any of those super early ones

Noon is a totally arbitrary position on a pot and it's not consistent from pedal to pedal of the same model. Noon on one Dirt Transmitter won't sound exactly like noon on another Dirt Transmitter. Also, in a lot of fuzz pedals, noon isn't necessarily a good sounding position. Most tend to sound best with the fuzz maxed out. I do have a few new EQD pedals since I made this. I'm building a Zap Machine clone using the Grey Bench PCB right now, because I refuse to pay $500 for one.