Fairfield Circuitry Meet Maude: All The Ambient Analog Delay You Need!
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
- This is a wonderful pedal that I've used on my pedalboard for years, but have neglected to make a standalone demo of...until now! Hailing from Québec, Fairfield Circuitry have built a stellar reputation for creating some of the best wacky boxes of weird out there. The Meet Maude is a BBD-based analog delay, but with some extra features that you just don't get in most other delays on the market.
It can do the 'basics' very well - slapback, dotted 8th 'Edge-style', darker DM-2 type repeats that don't get in the way of your core tone...all of those are present and correct. But where this pedal really excels for me is its ambient, washy textures - helped by a brilliant modulation circuit that isn't 'perfect' in the way that the sine-wave modulation in something like a Memory Man is. No - this modulation is more glitchy and random, and is more reminiscent of a tape delay where the reels snag on the mechanism...giving a more unpredictable jerky effect.
Plus, you also get a compression switch that only affects the wet path of your signal - most of the time this is a fairly subtle smoothing effect, but especially when the pedal is going into washy ambient self-oscillation, it prevents the BBD from being overloaded so you don't get any crunchy, unpleasant clipping. (You listening, Thorpy Camoflange...?!?)
What do you think? Emotive and inspiring? Or not for you? Comment below!
Guitar is a Nathan Sheppard NSG-1 w/ Bare Knuckle Knuckleduster pickups. Amp is a Vajra JTM45 clone running into a Zilla Studio Pro 2x12 cabinet loaded with Scumback S75-PVC AlNiCo and Celestion AlNiCo Gold speakers. Recorded with Aston Spirit Condenser, '70s Sennheiser MD441 and sE RNR1 ribbon mics, with a Schoeps CMC6 room mic.
0:00 Intro
3:49 Basic Delay Sounds
7:44 Modulated Ambient Sounds
16:32 Outro
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I love Fairfield Circuitry! I have their Accountant compressor on my board, and it's been there for 4 years now. All of their stuff seems to be awesome quality. :)
Got one too, sweet compressor, sounds awesome paired with the Shallow Water.
Great stuff, Fairfield Circuitry products always have that extra mojo.
One of the better reviews I’ve seen. I was recently asked to trade my Meet Maude for a Demedash t-120 dlx, but decided keep the Maude. Happy playing!
i had my eyes on this delay for years but for some reason i've never purchased it. It is really cool because it seems to sit around your tone instead of taking over like some delays do.
In some way it reminds me more of an oil can delay than a tape. Anyway, super cool
It's a killer delay Enrico...quite noisy (so I wouldn't run it into gain!) but for the ambient washy stuff, it's amazing!!
Cool pedal! Great playing too!
I love all of their stuff. The first I heard of the Shallow Waters pedal I knew I had to have and I knew it would change the way I was making music. I didn't have any money, so I really had to save up for two years until I could buy one. It was worth it.
Financially things are going better for me now, so I have to be careful not to just buy everything they make, but somewhere deep inside I know I want to. ❤️
Great video, as always Joe! A very interesting pedal - what I really love about the Meet Maude is the modulation. Other than the Catalinbread Adineko, it's the only delay I've heard that can produce an accurate simulation of the Oil Can delays, as originally made by Tel-Ray (later Morley) in the early 1960's. That's my all-time favourite style of producing delay sounds and this is a must-buy for me, not to mention the ambient and other options!
It ads a warbled cloud, a lofi fizz, a wobbling glow
You rock kind sir!
One of my favorite delays, together with my Pladask Elektrisk Tåken and the Catalinbread Adineko. Try putting a Red Panda Tensor in the fx loop, you will be amazed and teleported to another galaxy.
I have observed the many brands you really like are usually different in so far as they often unique but at the same time have totally usable voices. It surprises me that I have not seen you with an NRG Effects pedal. They check all your boxes. Add to that they are all handmade point to point wired. You should treat yourself and just You Tube NRG Effects. I especially love the NRG Effects Purrer. Thanx for another great demo.
Would you recommend the Purrer over a real tube drive like the Vahlbruch Kaluna? Pretty similar price range, just curious if it's THAT good.
I'd definitely be up for checking out an NRG or two...I just don't own any! So I'll keep a lookout - but if Neil wanted to lend me one, I'd definitely give it a spin for him!
Good video…
You should do a review on the Barbershop overdrive from Fairfield. See if you can find a v1
If somebody wanted to lend me one, I gladly would!
@@JoePerkinsMusic maybe ask Fairfield, it’s worth a try !
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Shazam, just ordered one! gonna sound great with my Gretsch.
Amazing! Really hope you love it as much as I do :-)
Very oil can like