Too cool about the amount of sponge [iness] available with the Axis.
 The attack event on notes can take some time to occur, depending on how the string is reacting, accentuating buzzes, delaying attack under heavy load etc.
 It sounds like an overloaded Fuzz Box sound, mushing nearly to the point of threatening to cut out under severe attack. minus some of the less desirable side effect one would get just overloading a Fuzz box.
 Each hard low note seems to have an initial attack 'ck', then compressor like attenuation, then output recovery of the note.  You can get alot of stuff going on with one attack event.
 It makes someone wonder why the circuit reacts to this extreme like to attack/loading.
 I think the special ears and extensive testing found the coolness in this one, it could easily have been cast away as 'farty sounding', or 'it overloads' may have been assessed to it.
 But again, it's certainly no wierder sounding  than an Octavia.
 I'm guessing JH would get the levels up to the point of making the string agitate itself from feedback to enough to slap the neck, causing the attenuation, and frequency accentuation shift, er was that the octavia, or was it both...lol...had to be Hot Stax there I think for it to work right.
 Machine Gun. The way the Guitar, effects and amps and PA were used to depict the evils of aerial bomb assaults, guns, evil weaponry of all kinds, used like the People coersed into using them, to kill 'enemies' no-one they knew knew, having the same color skin...and we still dispute the 'reasons' for that dopey endeavor in east asia..lol.
 Nixon, and the delegates of death from that era musta just loved that guy !!! Talk about in YOUR face !!!
 Wow how did that get in there...Too kool. Maybe I misinterpret the music and lyrics...not. Direct attack, delayed effect!! !!! ! !! !!!! !!! !!!!! !!
 TV twists minds, Think for yourself !!!

I think it is kind of like a "swell" effect. Not quite as dramatic as the fuzzes that claim to have the "swell" function, but that's what it sounds like to me nonetheless. What is really fun is when your amp is breaking up too, those swells "swell" into octave feedback. And it's all controllable from the guitar volume. It's fun also to play with the guitar vol down for "normal" sounds, then turn up the vol as the note sustains, and ride the wave into walls of feedback.

You're right, Pete. It's easy to write this one off as farty and unbiased sounding, etc. But when you start working with it, you realize it's -meant- to be worked with, that's the whole point. It's very expressive.

Doug