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Hey y'all. So i've been playing "tighten up" quite a bit lately, and it has occurred to me that Dan's guitar sound has been changing really rapidly. Since he's started really playing the Harmony, his sound has started getting a little less fuzzed, a little thinner than the crazy robust fuzz sound of the earlier records. I really like this new sound, and i was hoping that if anybody has been lucky enough to see them since Blakroc dropped had a chance to geek out on the pedals/amp setup he was rocking.

He had two green big muffs on his board on Saturday. He was as fuzzy as ever. The studio set up is completely different though.

Live at The Crystal Ballroom had green muff all over it with his Harmony.

He used a http://www.fuzzbox.com/cob and an analogman peppermint fuzz last year with The Fast Five.

He was also using two silverface Super Reverbs this weekend, too. Went away from the Marshall, which I didn't care for. The tones on Live at The Crystal Ballroom are some of my favorite of his.

According to the photos he didn't use a POG but then again maybe they didn't play Tighten Up at that gig at all. But I somehow doubt he was using a POG in the studio, I think he just played that octave seperately and added it. Or he could have used the COB by Prescription Electronics that jmjohnson40 already mentioned.

I was just past the upper right of the first photo. My record label probably didn't let them post a pic of me.

Although, it definitely sounds like during that breakdown a trem pedal was used, or maybe just the vibrato on the Twin.

Its interesting you say that, because I was just thinking about how they were gonna recreate a song like "Tighten Up" live. I think you're right. I bet he's going to approach it pretty similarly to the way he recreated A&R. And I can't wait to see it.

I'd say the quality is average. It's a factory that produces masses of pedals but most of them are sturdy and sound good. They have some pretty unique stuff that you won't find elsewhere, as the POG for example.

I'm resurrecting this to see if there's any new intel on what pedal Dan uses to get that octave sound on Tighten Up. Not the phaser sound near the end but the chorus guitar break at the beginning and middle. On that note, what phaser does he use?