Monday, December 24, 2018

OVERDRIVE- WALTERTONE EFFECTS Superdriver OD ....a fat round sound with nice definition and articulation

 WALTERTONE EFFECTS SUPERDRIVER 
$175.00 USD
Yet another Venezuelan company. Oddly there are a lot of pedal makers there but the popular music is still very heavily based on traditional music so the local Rock scene is indeed very small.

Waltertone is a small one man show. He makes 3 or 4 dirt pedals that seem to be very closely based on the Superdriver.
The Superdriver TX, Supersat and DualAmp Driver.

The Superdriver is a medium gain transparent OD a bit like a Tube Screamer. Unlike a ts it has a very fat round mellow sound that is quite different. Two toggles give you 9 voices to choose. You can make it more typical sounding or even very bright. The 9 voices allow for a lot of variety of tones.
The attack of the guitar comes through clean enough to keep a very nice definition through the entire range of the pedal.











CONCLUSION
The 9 voices are a nice touch. The magic for me is how you can back it off to an even mellow sound but not loose it's fat round sound or it's definition.

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