MJM GUITAR FX LUXORA
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| $180.00 USD |
Everyone makes a Tube Screamer. ln this case this is MJM's second shot at it as they had the now defunct Phantom pedal.
They did the standard improvements of giving the pedal a kick in the lows and generally fattened it up a bit. All ts pedals start with one of several choices of OpAmp and then add clipping diodes. A Tube Screamer is voiced to give you symmetrical distortion which many love in spite of it not being amp like.This to me is more in the Boss OD-1 camp with tube like asymmetrical distortion. You would be forgiven for thinking it was a Brit type OD.
CONCLUSION
Well it it a valid choice. It is what it is ...it's own thing. It is too far from a Tube Screamer to be one in my book. No I am not a traditionalist as as a rule I hate all Tube Screamers lol. They are impossible to avoid. I own two. One is in this camp in so much as it disguised as something else. In fact I only use it with a Flanger where both are set up to give me a quasi sitar like sound. Another is designed to stacked into a Modern Metal sound to tighten up the sound. If you simply like the sound of the Luxora than compare it to the Reuss FX Back Slider OD. Ruess took another route doing the Boss OD-1 pedal but you can flip open the back and switch to a symmetrical distortion and boost the mids as well. It's $165.00 USD.
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