Tuesday, March 24, 2020

OVERDRIVE-MOEN Violent Metal (reissue) ...a sleeping giant

 MOEN VIOLENT METAL MO-VM (reissue) 

$60.00 USD
Moen have always made a quality product and are a very old company.
Chinese pedals did not gather anyones attention until other companies who made cheap and cheerful junk showed up.
Moen were unfairly labelled as just another
crap Chinese pedal maker.

Yes they are a lot cheaper than American
made products but only because they have a low overhead. 
Not because of bad design or the use of inferior parts.
The Violent Metal pedal came out about 15 years ago. Ahead of it's time so they stopped making it. Then a few young players looking for something cheap they could afford found it on the used market and were amazed it wasn't some cheap and cheesy toy. 
Of course word got out and prices got stupid very quickly.
Hence MOEN has a reissue!

So it has a basic 3 way EQ with Freq. which allows you to sweep the mids into a sweet spot
that works best for the style of Metal you play. Level of course. Finally gain ...and this gain goes from really high to outrageous! LOL
CONCLUSION
Not bad!
The low end is huge and round without a trace of mud!!!
If you want a tighter sound you could just move 
up the sweep to the upper mids. Unfortunately that 
wasn't demoed.
So definitely worth considering.

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