Yeah! :D I scored a Sonic Titan!!! Just got back from an overly boring meeting and Bam there it was on Ebay, awesome luck!!!! I tried for the fiirst auction and got up 5 minutes too late. Doh!!! Looking forward to another awesome pedal!!!

Someone hurry up and buy the Titan up right now before I do, this is killing me :)

It is pretty much the same type of distortion tones you hear on the clips for the bass version. I think it has some of the most brutal tones I have heard in a distortion pedal and the blend knob is really a usable feature. This summer I'm going to buy some recording gear and I'll definately post clips then of it, right now I'm to broke to buy anything with decent coverters so I'm going to wait til I get some real money coming in again. I still have to figure out how to pay for my MKII I'm on the list for and hopefully a custom fuzz when the auctions are up.

Hello all - nice to be here - I had prowled around silently for a year or more before finally joining up at the end of last year - felt I was being a little rude not to really.. I truly enjoy this place and have found myself strangely attracted - more and more so really - to the fuzzier end of things - I do remember talking to you about some Park stuff a year or so back bottlerocket - did you have a croc little giant off me? - I had wondered about kicking in some of my Park family shots to the amp porn section but didnt want to seem too showy - really it would just demonstrate the level of sickness that can develop when GAS goes untreated for too many years! Seems to me that there are plenty of folks on this forum who might be afflicted with the same strain as me....... Yes I was lucky enough to get an Ezekiel earlier today - amazed me really that I had managed to get anywhere after so many wasted hours poised over the keyboard just to end up with an adrenalin comedown and worries of chest pains and potential heart attacks after missing out yet again. I'm no bass player but have heard that the ezekiel is great fun on ordinary guitar - I had planned on using a treble booster if it was too bassy for me but will have to see. I saw that a few had been made specifically tuned to ordinary guitar usage and had wondered if anyone might be able to explain exactly what that involved - I did ask Dave earlier by pm but obviously he's rather busy right now and I'd imagine replying to my stuff would be low on the list. Cheers - G

I just sold my guitar-voiced Zeke to Brian recently. I used it on a recording, so if anyone is super curious, you can go to www.thesaturdaynights.com and check out "System of Control," which is available for free download on the mp3's and press page. I did find that there was a sweet spot on the tone knob (pretty far counter-clockwise if I recall correctly) and anything clockwise of that was too bassy.

Hi Graham, Please post the Parks! I love those things, wish I had found one I could afford back in my amp GASing days. I fell the same way about posting stuff and not wanting to come off as showy but also love looking at nice gear, especially peeking inside at circuits so I have usually decided to just go ahead and post. As far as Zekes go, I've got one that I asked Dave to voice more towards the upper mids for guitar and as far as I know it just involves some smaller values of capacitors in the circuit to limit some of the low end but that's probably oversimplifying it a bit. What I've got in my Zeke is two settings that sound like maybe a cross between a Distortion + and a Rat but more full range and better quality in general. The next setting is like a cross between a crunchy distortion and fuzz and the last setting is fatter and fuzzier sounding than that with a little less of the distortion pedal feel to it. Each setting increases the output and by the time you're at the last setting it's a very loud pedal! You've also got a blend knob on the side which blends in clean signal if you want which can be interesting. Sorry for getting so wordy, to me it's basically a 70's to early 80's style pedal which I found really fun to use on bright amps to kick 'em into a really fat saturation and with four different types of clipping it give a pretty good pallet of distortion tones. I actually wish mine was a little fatter so maybe chicago's was set up a little different than mine. Anyways, good to have you hear and I hope you'll post some pics of your amps sometime soon. take care, kevin

Just scored a Titan. Would love to get a Zeke, maybe next round.

Yeah, I've got enough dirt to keep myself occupied. I just put the Openhaus back on my board and that thing is a monster. The Echoczar is insane. It's a little overwhelming at first, but I think I'm getting used to it. I've been using an expression pedal to control the repeats, which is really useful.

Hi Bottlerocket - thanks for the welcome and your historic kind words about me - I did sell a few of those Park heads but still have a few left and you are right they are brilliant!! but those CMI amps were also belters - ugly as sin but deceptive in that - I never had more than a couple of them but certainly some of their line were great for guitar (the pa ones maybe less so) - they are now long gone alas but for the uninitiated they offer the possibility of getting a first class "Marshall" at a fraction of the cost - although I would suspect that their prices may not be as low these days as they were a decade ago! I don't know if its appropriate to put them here and if its hijacking the thread then I apologise, but heres some stuff on CMI (Cleartone Musical Industries) - CMI only traded for two years or so ('76 & '77) and although they primarily made amps they also rebadged a couple of pedals that had been outsourced from sola/colorsound (neither the amps or pedals were sold in any great quantity so are quite scarce now) - a lovely blue tonebender called the "Fuzz Unit" distrinctive from its three controls being in a straight line and having both lead sockets on the same side - thats a real nice tonebender very much like the Barnes & Mullins models - here I will put up some pics of another outstanding effect - their Wah Fuzz Swell - A marvellous pedal and well worth watching for - the typical 4 x 184L trannies make for a first class later period colorsound type of fuzz which when used without the wah and with the swell (volume) control gives a fantastically useable standalone fuzz - not something that you could say about most of these combination wah fuzz pedals. >

Cheers for the tip-off, I'll be looking out for CMI now!

Hey, hey, hey . . . http://cgi.ebay.com/Colorsound-Wah-Fuzz-Swell-Guitar-Effects-Pedal-1970s_W0QQitemZ310031721348QQihZ021QQcategoryZ22669QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122

These are some great shots. There is also a thread going called : All things wah the photos would go great with. I had John Landgraff build me a custom wah a couple years back and he built it on perf board. I have to make the time to shoot some photos of it and post them. Thanks for the shots Graham!