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Title: Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Overdrive
Post by: raisingfreen on April 29, 2012, 08:05:36 PM
A local store had this on a shelf for awhile so I tried it out. To me it sounds somewhat like an extremely transparent, much cleaner TS9 silver with a SAG Control. That one feature is the coolest knob I have seen in while. Extremely useful. All the way up its tight and clean all the way back its loose and dirty. Perfect use of a control. Like a TS9 with an actual useful tone control. It's not a clone and has its own thing happening (however its really, really transparent and does not change tone at all from what I can tell). Highly recommend checking this out. I'm thinking of grabbing another vs using two TS9s. I really like this. I really wanted something different than the standard TS9 sound and this is perfect. Street price seems to be around $165-$175.

www.fairfieldcircuitry.com
(http://www.fairfieldcircuitry.com/img/pedalB.jpg)
Title: Re: Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Overdrive
Post by: the_great_lemon on April 29, 2012, 09:30:23 PM
Cool find! I've been wondering about that thing for a while, so its good to hear good things about it!
Title: Re: Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Overdrive
Post by: Happyorange27 on April 29, 2012, 10:00:28 PM
Cool deal.  Sag is a cool thing.  You can mod any OD or fuzz pedal by adding a pot to the main voltage and mess with the sag.  Also the more sag, the lower the voltage and the longer your batteries will last...if you use a battery.  Not that I do by Whipple does on his fuzz pedal that I'm helping him with.  I digress.
Title: Re: Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Overdrive
Post by: Walker done done on May 03, 2012, 01:50:12 PM
Quote from: raisingfreen on April 29, 2012, 08:05:36 PM
A local store had this on a shelf for awhile so I tried it out. To me it sounds somewhat like an extremely transparent, much cleaner TS9 silver with a SAG Control. That one feature is the coolest knob I have seen in while. Extremely useful. All the way up its tight and clean all the way back its loose and dirty. Perfect use of a control. Like a TS9 with an actual useful tone control. It's not a clone and has its own thing happening (however its really, really transparent and does not change tone at all from what I can tell). Highly recommend checking this out. I'm thinking of grabbing another vs using two TS9s. I really like this. I really wanted something different than the standard TS9 sound and this is perfect. Street price seems to be around $165-$175.

www.fairfieldcircuitry.com
(http://www.fairfieldcircuitry.com/img/pedalB.jpg)

Very interesting...can't wait to hear it!  Which locale did you buy it from?
Title: Re: Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop Overdrive
Post by: raisingfreen on May 03, 2012, 05:49:13 PM
Very interesting...can't wait to hear it!  Which locale did you buy it from?[/quote]

Bucks.
Our options in Portland seem to be slimming for on demand purchases. I like to give local business... business, when possible. Plus I just like a few of the guys that work there. The older guys not so much.