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Deep Trip is mainly about vintage guitar tone. It may sound too obvious, but it is not so much, because I mean TONE rather than circuits or parts. What I mean is, as much as I understand and greatly respect all those guys that make a fantastic job on replicas, we never wanted to replicate old circuits as they supposedly came out of the factories. That’s because we never believed it was enough to reach the tones of our guitar idols (Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Gilmour, name yours). There were always experienced electronic techs around (Mayer, Diaz, Cornish etc.) to mod pedals and amps or even rebuild from the ground up! There was also some fantastic production and tech work on recordings, both in studio and live. And there still is, just look at the tons of rack equipment carried all around. Those stories are available to anyone, told on books, magazines and on the internet as well. So why bother to stick to the factory circuit? I don’t really care about the exact circuit, I care about the tone, that’s what I meant up there. To me, using your ears is far more important than sticking to the old drawings. It can surely give you hints and main paths to the tones you seek, but if you stop there, it’s just halfway to heaven. You’ve got to use your ears, dig a little deeper and put your brains to work in order to get the real gold.
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