GCI Brutalist Distortion
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2024
- www.godcityinstruments.com/
The Brutalist is the brain child of Mr Kurt Ballou, you may know him as the guitarist in Converge or producer and owner of God City Studio in Massachusetts. Although we’ve sampled a taste of this pedal in Jr form, this elder version was conceptualized first and has taken Kurt on a decade long journey to get it right. It does draw inspiration from his favorite Providence Stampede distortion but the Brutalist is armed with a powerful set of controls that set it apart from any you’ve heard before. The main distortion is akin to a cranked amp and provides excellent dynamics thanks to its 18v internal headroom from a standard 9V power supply (150mA minimum). The active 2-Band Baxandall EQ is boost only, so flat settings for Bass and Treble are actually counterclockwise but they’ve been fine-tuned to be subtle, so as to agree with both clean and dirty amps. For more extreme voicings, just activate the left footswitch to run the distortion through a Band-Pass filter (B) at the beginning of the circuit and an All-Pass Filter (A) at the output. Band-pass makes it possible to dial in cocked wah or aggressive chainsaw and its wide freq range allows the Brutalist to agree with bassists too!
Finally, the All-pass filter acts somewhat like a parked phaser and you’ll find extreme scooped sounds plus many unexpected synth textures as it interacts with various band-pass settings.
God City Instruments have teamed with Electronic Audio Experiments for the circuit layout so you know it’s a well thought out design that is ready for any application. For more info on this long awaited distortion, visit GodCityInstruments.com.
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Gear in Video
Amp: Fender DRRI
Bass Rig: UA Ampeg SVT-3 Pro Plugin
Guitar: GCI Craftsman & Deconstructivist bass, Hagstrom Super Swede (Reeves Gabrels Railhammers), Godin Montreal Premiere), Suhr Classic Antique (Radioshop HSS Evolution set)
Recording Gear: Universal Audio Apollo 8 QUAD, OX Amp Top Box, de Lisle Amp-Speaker Switcher 4x4 Pro Plus, Royer R-121 Mic
Strings: StringJoy Signature 10-46 tinyurl.com/StringjoyAndy
Cables: Evidence SIS & Revelation Guitar Cables
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Not just another dirt pedal. This seems like a really useful tool especially for a recording studio. Nice!
Holy cow, amazing sounds.
Amazing! Love the look and sounds!
Been following GCI stuff for years and really stoked for Kurt and the crew who worked on this cuz this sounds so sikk. Well done, Andy!
Fantastic sounds out of this.
Sounds killer! Crazy range on tap. Will have to pick one up.
First thing in the morning I always filter my filth. That is one great dirt box! Nice demo Andy. 😎🎸
Ah saw this on your mother demo and asked about it. And now there it is!! What a pedal… and great playing (again!!)
Don’t know if I can get this in the UK but I’m sure going to try!!
A pedal that lives up to its name.
This made me reconsider scooped tones, not to mention I never knew about all-pass filters until now.
Man, that sounds good.
So glad to see you taking a look at GCI products (and playing their guitars!)
Thanks, I've been lucky to try a few of them over the past couple months. I really took a shine to these two (Craftsman and Deconstructivist bass).
@@AndyDemos awesome! They seem to be dialed in on great single pickup designs with high build quality.
God I love Kurt Ballou.
Do u remember baloo he was in junkle book
Here here sir. 👌
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I remember “a baloo is a bear,” from the tests they gave in grammar school, every few years for placement.
Love most everything he's done including the greasehammer, but especially the collabs with Pat at abominable always gold.
So cool! The all-pass filter really gives it that Siamese Dream lead tone, like I'm hearing a doubled up recording, or the guitar speeding ahead of itself or something!
Hey thanks so much! I did double track the intro tune but yes, the filtering has a way of bringing out strange harmonics sometimes!
Guhhhhh. That opener. Killer.
After playing mine for a few hr it really reminds me of a Russian baseballs by ehx with more control over your gain settings; make of that what you will
His SlugJammer pickups are too damn good too. I put some in my Japanese jaguar special HH baritone and a custom harness and instantly turned that guitar into a damn good guitar.
Sold out, damn! That Jane Doe album is still on my regular rotation, its like the definition of brutal.
Not forever sold out! I’d check back with GCI soon, they plan to make more👍🏻
@@AndyDemos I added myself to get an email when available. Will buy asap. Thx for showing it off.
So glad i impulse bought this when whe they went on sale. This sounds so dirty! Can the dirt and filter be enegaged independantly or does the dirt need to be on to use the filter?
Yes!!!!!
God Andy, God City.
Really dig your videos Andy, and this is another goodie. Question - What do you use for your “backing band” on these videos? Inquiring minds want to know! Thanks
Hey thanks Chris! This time it was my drummer friend who often send me drum grooves. I then write a tune around it, usually bass first.
These will sell out fast, if they didn’t in the first hour.
He could’ve probably sold out of them at a $100 more.
It’s like a customizable Rat/Fuzz and Boss Metal Pedals, with the baxandal boost and the all pass filtering, can create a lot of interesting tones.
I’m definitely getting on the list for the next batch, if no one has one for sale new anywhere.
There’s people selling the Jr. for as much used,
12:47 Cherry Red!!
Killing intro! Typical Andy’s way to punch your guts out!
What was that from at around 7:14? Very Cantrell-esque (meaning AWESOME!)
Just riffin but yeah it can sound Cantrell or chainsaw metal if you dare!
I really liked the converge-y version of money for nothing😅
is that EARTHLESS ?!
*sigh* I thought--ha ha ha--that buying a Fractal FX product would quench my thirst for pedals. Turns out the guitar player disease can NEVER BE CURED!! MORE GEAR! I NEED MORE GEAR!
There really is room for analog filtering even in a Fractal environment! Thanks for watching!
Sold out 😥
Nope, you were just early haha! In Stock!
YAY! @@AndyDemos
YAY! @@AndyDemos
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how long do you keep your right hand nails?
Very short actually
Andy makes a video and within days the pedal sells out ...
Haha that’s giving me more credit…there was quite the buzz with this one over the years! Btw, they’re making more, I’d suggest getting on their notify list 👍🏻 Thanks!
Made in China pedals are excellent!
I guess our workshop is in China then 😉
@@electronicaudioexperiments China, Mass.
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To many knobs
How would you implement these features with fewer knobs?
Too few Os