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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ย. 2021
- www.audiokitchen.co.uk/
The story of Audio Kitchen’s Fake Plastic Trees is rooted in their Class A valve amp, the Big Trees, which employs a single EL-84 power tube to lend its beloved compression and chime when pushed into clipping. The Fake Plastic Trees is the result of Audio Kitchen’s lengthy R&D to reproduce the Line out signal of the Big Trees in a solid state package. Much of the same sonic characteristics are achieved by subbing carefully matched FETs where valves would be. Then a tone stack comprised of pre-gain Bass & Treble helps influence the bloom and overall voicing of the pedal. Also paramount is the sound and behavior of the EL-84, so Audio Kitchen took great pains to model the clipping profile using a discrete stage that’s anything but your average diode clipped overdrive. For starters, it pumps the voltage to nearly 40V internally to match the The Big Trees feel. The search for an output transformer with the right frequency response, windings and laminations was a huge step and they finally found it with a Mu-metal transformer. This linked to a simulated speaker load at the last stage is the icing of the cake, or leaves on the tree, that gives the Fake Plastic Trees its organic saturation and incredibly dynamic response. Audio Kitchen was over the moon with their results and this coming from experienced valve amp builders says a lot. The Fake Plastic Trees is built with great attention to detail in England, you can find for info at Audiokitchen.co.uk .
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Guitars: Gray Guitars Grayling, Reverend Jetstream RB, Gibson Custom CME Les Paul, Suhr Classic Antique, Fender Ultra Jazzmaster,
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This is the BEST overdrive pedal I've ever played. ACTUALLY feels like an amp- round full single notes, sag, note bloom, dynamics, gain onset, slightly-uncontrollable-tube-amp-feel. Sounds even better with their The Small Trees tube boost in front of it. The Small Trees beat a 29 Pedals Euna, Klone and Page V2 as always on boost/buffer/magic tone sprinkles. Amazing stuff.
Any day with an Andy upload is a great day! I swear, you give me more motivation and inspiration to play than just about anyone else these days.
That means so much, thank you!
Fine words, true indeed. I’m always motivated to play however watching Andy pushes me to play better and take it in directions I normally wouldn’t. We must thank Andy not only for the fantastic demo’s but the free guitar lessons he gives in every Demo !
Andy is the reason why I have many of the stomp boxes I have along with my vox AC15hw1x with the alnico blue speaker.
I did branch into TC electronic and the more direct demos of amp brands particularly like Marshall and Mesa Boogie, yet Andy Martin was instrumental in shaping my rig, and playing style even if I got more into heavy-metal than he did. At least there was Scotty Hern who was the resident metalhead of pro-guitar-shop.
Thanks again for everything Andy.
that piece you played at the end is going to be stuck in my head all day now, I just know it 😂❤️ great stuff as always!!
Thanks so much Emily :)
Smashed it Andy, thank-you.
Man that intro was supremely awesome. If you ever play in any shows around Portland let me know!
Andy, you and Mike Hermans have the best demos!
👍👍👌
Daaaaaang Andy! The mixing on your intro performance was masterful! The sound staging was fantastic. What a great demo!
I really appreciate it, it's always a challenge to point the listener to two different tone settings. Glad you enjoyed it!
that was a terrific intro
Thank you so much! It's my fake Radiohead song, maybe I should say Radioface?
Steve is a wizard. All important components in his amps and pedals are either custom-made for them, or they just make them theirselves (like the output transformers in the amps). I have a big chopper and flying squirrel so I'm good, but this pedal is about as good as it gets in the solid state world.
Would you suggest just going for the Big Trees and using it just as a pedal as the Fake Plastic Trees is impossible to find? I know it’s more $$$ but it’d make a great practice amp too
@@winstonsmith8236 the fpt is available, I got one 2 weeks ago. If you won't use the Big Trees as an amp, get the flying squirrel, it's an insane preamp.
Really sweet demo, Andy. Thank you. Every knob and pick up adjustment / selection had its own life. Love to watch and listen to you.
Thanks John, I’m so glad you enjoy the examples!👍🏻
Great review! Funny as I was looking into this a few months back. Will revisit that idea.
Fantastic demo Andy, those bass and treble controls are really powerful without being too powerful 👍
Great sounds! Great playing!
What a good pedal! Great tone!
Thanks for this! Great tone!!
Kick-ass jam, Andy 🎸🔈🔉🔊
Yeah, this intro's special. bookmark it.
The FPT crushes on bass! Don’t think for a second this is for 6-stringers only. Addictive.
Awesome Jazzmaster - Sounds - WOW !
what a sick demo! really loved the Les paul and Jazzmaster tones! and that sneaky Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Bridge Riff!
It wears me out... In a good way
great bar of Working Man by Rush!
Woowwww great sound!!!
Nice, I didn't know you have your own TH-cam channel. I grew up with your awesome demos.
I appreciate you finding my channel! Thanks for watching ❤️
Dont know if it was intentional but that In My Life reference in the intro was really good!
That high gain boosted “root” (bass) sound would probably be nuts if you starved the power a bit with 8v-5v! My MXR iso brick would have fun experimenting with that!
Natural. like Neil on 10
El-84s are always 👍
HAHA, the Mu-Metal got me!
I spent a little too much time making that sample haha! This moo sounds better...
Great intro track!
Andy rules
Audio kitchen will be the world’s most sought after pedals in time. Buy 2 of each and put one away for your retirement.
the jam at 8:06 really inspires me
I'll buy it for the Mu-Metal transformer!
Whoa👏👏👏👏🔥
I have The Big Trees and this sounds super fucking similar
I think the Jazzmaster liked the pedal best!
There was certainly plenty of boost available to make those pickups come alive! With Humbuckers, you don't need as much of the Root (bass) to get a fat tone. I was equally impressed with how it handled all of these guitars! Thanks!
Fake Elastic Trees
I love AK but the stuff is so expensive. Most of it is worth it but I'm not sure this one is. It's some of the finest stuff out there anyway.
Used to do surgery for girls in the 80's.
Does it get hot?
7:34 right hand. Sombrero.
Lol! the pedal's name is an old Radiohead song! 😁
It looks like fake elastic trees
That would be a better title!
Lake trastic fees…
Does Real Plastic Trees sound similar?
Sweet, but very pricey! 🇬🇧💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷🇬🇧
🐄 ⛵️🐄🎄🔥😌
argh i hate it
What’s to hate? Other than its availability and cost?
@@winstonsmith8236 Exactly! I think it sounds great but would have to perform pedalboard surgery to make room for it and also, probably be a far better player than I am to do it justice! 😂
Try repairing or modding that pedal with surface-mount components... not gonna happen easily. If at at.