rgsss14
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Sorry for the cheesy title.
I don't post many reviews on gear, in that I feel that all of our tastes vary.... but I just had to share the joy....regarding this pedal.....hesitating to say that this is the most amazing "canvas" on which to sculpt tone?
The set up was simple - a modified Nash strat into the Rockett boost
into a Gjika KT77.
I wanted to start with a "thin" sound, so I had the switches left to
right on Bright/Cut/Treble, with the buffer off, obviously. The
signal was boosted with added chime, sparkle, and sustain. I played
around with the various combos, slowly adding in punch, bass, and
finally the boost. What an amazing array of tones!!! A few of you out there know that I'm a gear junkie and I might fall in love with gear easily, but I am truly amazed at the versatility of this "boost" pedal - I
couldn't stop tweaking and playing for an hour and a half and got into
a shitload of trouble with the wife. I love the fact that the pedal
makes a pure, clean(ish) tone more "hi-fi" - adding sustain, sparkle,
and those audible harmonic overtones that one never ceases to be
shocked by the fact that this is a CLEAN sound/tone. Putting the right switch in the clean mode decreases some of the sparkle and signal, but playing around with the punch and boost and increasing the LEVEL on this
setting really creates some magic with respect to more "earthy" tones,
still with that sustain, and grit.... and all of this just touching
the surface of what this pedal can do.
These guys have created "compression", without COMPRESSION, if that makes any sense at all.... an increase in signal, chime, sustain, overtones....without squashing the sound and tone. Nothing else exists out there like this thing.... I've got to unplug now....more discovery later!!!
A home run, out of the park...for the Rockett team, and congrats for that!!!! I am a happy albeit an "in the doghouse" guy! I can't imagine how this will
sound with the Afterburner overdrive... Ridiculous stuff.....
FYI, I read some of the other posts regarding this company/pedal. The bottom line is this... who cares what people say/type/advertise/claim, etc....whether it be in a verbose, magnanimous fashion, or in a mysterious, cryptic fashion (we've seen both ends of the spectrum)....
The bottom line is whether something speaks to you tonally, and uniquely.... out of the plethora of pedals I've tried and own, this one (in the boost/overdrive realm) - - - is the one that has spoken to me with the most clarity. A stellar pedal....
but hey, what do I know???
all the best, folks,
I don't post many reviews on gear, in that I feel that all of our tastes vary.... but I just had to share the joy....regarding this pedal.....hesitating to say that this is the most amazing "canvas" on which to sculpt tone?
The set up was simple - a modified Nash strat into the Rockett boost
into a Gjika KT77.
I wanted to start with a "thin" sound, so I had the switches left to
right on Bright/Cut/Treble, with the buffer off, obviously. The
signal was boosted with added chime, sparkle, and sustain. I played
around with the various combos, slowly adding in punch, bass, and
finally the boost. What an amazing array of tones!!! A few of you out there know that I'm a gear junkie and I might fall in love with gear easily, but I am truly amazed at the versatility of this "boost" pedal - I
couldn't stop tweaking and playing for an hour and a half and got into
a shitload of trouble with the wife. I love the fact that the pedal
makes a pure, clean(ish) tone more "hi-fi" - adding sustain, sparkle,
and those audible harmonic overtones that one never ceases to be
shocked by the fact that this is a CLEAN sound/tone. Putting the right switch in the clean mode decreases some of the sparkle and signal, but playing around with the punch and boost and increasing the LEVEL on this
setting really creates some magic with respect to more "earthy" tones,
still with that sustain, and grit.... and all of this just touching
the surface of what this pedal can do.
These guys have created "compression", without COMPRESSION, if that makes any sense at all.... an increase in signal, chime, sustain, overtones....without squashing the sound and tone. Nothing else exists out there like this thing.... I've got to unplug now....more discovery later!!!
A home run, out of the park...for the Rockett team, and congrats for that!!!! I am a happy albeit an "in the doghouse" guy! I can't imagine how this will
sound with the Afterburner overdrive... Ridiculous stuff.....
FYI, I read some of the other posts regarding this company/pedal. The bottom line is this... who cares what people say/type/advertise/claim, etc....whether it be in a verbose, magnanimous fashion, or in a mysterious, cryptic fashion (we've seen both ends of the spectrum)....
The bottom line is whether something speaks to you tonally, and uniquely.... out of the plethora of pedals I've tried and own, this one (in the boost/overdrive realm) - - - is the one that has spoken to me with the most clarity. A stellar pedal....
but hey, what do I know???
all the best, folks,