Electro Harmonix The Mole (Demo)

Because there aren't ANY to be found on youtube, here's a demo on this little single-purpose pedal. I stumbled on the 'EHX The Mole' because I was looking for a pedal that would give my fuzz-sound some more 'oomph'. I mainly play rhythm in my band, so this pedal gives me just a little bit of extra versatility to fill some sonic-space.

Build quality is great, it feels really sturdy and ment to last. The pedal has a nice compact footprint, which is good because my DIY pedal-case has limited space. It has a single knob to control the range of bass-boost, much like a regular boost-pedal but specifically tuned in for the low-end frequencies. 100% counter-clockwise silences the signal, 100% clockwise gives you a 20dB boost.

By no means am I a great guitarist and this is by no means a professional demo, but I hope this video will be helpful to those interested in this pedal by Electro Harmonix!

Music © Blues Explosion

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Electro
• Harmonix
• EHX
• Mole
• pedal
• effectpedal
• guitar
• electric
• bassboost

[MattTheLatt]

if you love feedback, you should try holding your guitar in front of your amp

[hezzart]

@MattTheLatt Yeah, that is a great way to produce some feedback. I also like to push the headstock onto the tolex of an amp, really feeds the vibrations into the guitar itself :-)

In this video, the volume and gain wasn't really that high so that's why feedbacking didn't really work. At rehearsal volumes, the bassamp feedbacks really cool with this pedal!

[Torrello13]

video is fine,  pedal kind of sucks.

[hezzart]

@Torrello13 Does it really matter how long/short we percieve a demo to be? To me this is still kinda short, keeping in mind that when I play/jam I can go on for hours without noticing it ;-P

I love this pedal though, it's an important part of my bi-amping setup. It does a great job of creating a nice gnarly fuzzy bass-sound or just making it all sound bigger. It does well during gigs too, which is important.

[krispatel1]

Nice demo, but just be a bit more easy with the amount of fuzz and overdrive you use. In a gigging situation it just sounds like a miss of sound which cant be heard. How do I know? Ive made that mistake many times, way before I realised you need mids to be able to be heard.

[hezzart]

@krispatel1 Don't worry, got plenty of mids in my rig these days. I'm bi-amping with an Orange Rocker 30, the amp in the video was the bass-amp by itself. Settings have changed since this video too, did a lot of testing with a mic and listening to what gets picked up. The sound from this video was picked up by a Zoom H2 recorder.

Having said that, in my band I try to fill more of the low-end sound. We are a rock trio of a drummer and 2 guitarists, a bit like the Blues Explosion :-)

[adamg4119]

@MattTheLatt The plastic-like covering on an amp

[ironsabbath18]

Should I get this, or the LBP-1 for that Tony Iommi type of tone?

[MattTheLatt]

@hezzart Great, just one question, what is the tolex?

[DJMcBeatss]

what is that fuzz pedal?

[Torrello13]

short demo? really? how long is a long demo?