Don't see much about this one, so a mini review
I got one a while back, but did not do much with it until last week. Very interesting pedal, fixed gain, only controls are a three way tone switch and volume.
The fixed gain was puzzling at first, but then I realized that your guitar volume knob effectively acts as the gain knob. If you were to introduce a gain knob to the pedal, it would be very similary to the knob you already have on your guitar, so what is the point? So the designer left it off, makes sense to me. Tone switch sounds like it introduces one of two different caps as high end roll offs, or no roll off at all. I used the medium setting, which was a little roll off at the top.
Rolling the volume up and down gives a bunch of sounds, all useful. I was at about 3 or 4 for a low gain rhythm sound, and rolled up for more riffy crunchy stuff. All the way up is more gain that I usually use, but it sounds nice. The volume jump is not significant, just about right actually, as I find higher gain sounds need a little bit more volume to fit in the mix.
Then I stuck a Soul Food after it for lead boost.
A bunch of sounds with two pedals, clean with both off, Soul Food alone for a clean lead, Rust on for mid to high gain rhythm, then both on for mid to high gain leads.
BTW, playing either a Hamer Talladega or a Line 6/Tyler JT69 USA model with a Dimarzio 36th in the bridge. Sounds great with either, but it did not like the JTV69 modeled sounds as much, I assume due to the impedance issues and how the pedal likes to be hooked up to an old fashioned volume pot shunted to ground. In keeping with this observation, this pedal likes to be first, or at least only after true bypass pedals.
Most fun I've had with just two pedals in a long time, the limitations actually end up freeing you, as you focus on playing and the little things you can do with your guitar to get different sounds/feels.
I got one a while back, but did not do much with it until last week. Very interesting pedal, fixed gain, only controls are a three way tone switch and volume.
The fixed gain was puzzling at first, but then I realized that your guitar volume knob effectively acts as the gain knob. If you were to introduce a gain knob to the pedal, it would be very similary to the knob you already have on your guitar, so what is the point? So the designer left it off, makes sense to me. Tone switch sounds like it introduces one of two different caps as high end roll offs, or no roll off at all. I used the medium setting, which was a little roll off at the top.
Rolling the volume up and down gives a bunch of sounds, all useful. I was at about 3 or 4 for a low gain rhythm sound, and rolled up for more riffy crunchy stuff. All the way up is more gain that I usually use, but it sounds nice. The volume jump is not significant, just about right actually, as I find higher gain sounds need a little bit more volume to fit in the mix.
Then I stuck a Soul Food after it for lead boost.
A bunch of sounds with two pedals, clean with both off, Soul Food alone for a clean lead, Rust on for mid to high gain rhythm, then both on for mid to high gain leads.
BTW, playing either a Hamer Talladega or a Line 6/Tyler JT69 USA model with a Dimarzio 36th in the bridge. Sounds great with either, but it did not like the JTV69 modeled sounds as much, I assume due to the impedance issues and how the pedal likes to be hooked up to an old fashioned volume pot shunted to ground. In keeping with this observation, this pedal likes to be first, or at least only after true bypass pedals.
Most fun I've had with just two pedals in a long time, the limitations actually end up freeing you, as you focus on playing and the little things you can do with your guitar to get different sounds/feels.
