OVERDRIVE- ROCKTRON ZOMBIE RECTIFIED ...gain, gain, gain & more ga!n !!!

ROCKTRON ZOMBIE RECTIFIED DISTORTION

$50.00 to
$120.00 USD

These guys have been around for at least 30 years. They started with noise reduction pedals and racks and moved into pedals. Like most makers some pedals were killer and others were merely OK. They were always built like a tank and sold for Boss like prices. In around 2017 all but their noise reduction systems disappeared. Not unexpected a few new pedals hang around in shops and used ones pop up too. The controls give you level, bass, treble & gain. Another control gives you a selection of 

4 voiced gain stages.

CONCLUSION

The name suggests it is meant to be a Mesa Dual Rectifier-a-Box. It isn't. 

Oddly enough it has a similar vibe to ENGL's flagship amp the ENGL Savage 120 MK II. It is dark, compressed and angry.

It is what it is a flat out Metal pedal. With so much gain it is not going to work

out for the guy that hasn't any chugging  and muting technique. It is not as the cliche goes for the 'faint of heart'

HEADS UP

Why did the Zombie get a bad rap?

It goes back to the 70's when a few young bands in London UK sprung up on the local scene playing small clubs with their stacks wide open.

The NME a very popular tabloid weekly music paper coined the name Heavy Metal as a put down. The term stuck with Journalists even in the 2000's when pedals like this came out. In short it is not that this is a bad Metal pedal but that Metal is bad so a pedal for it has to be sh@t. The same thing happened to the Boss HM-2 and the Metal Zone. 

These days there as you know Metal players with virtuoso techniques so Metal has become respectable. lol

HANDS ON

I find it just a bit weak in the lows. It takes a bit of tweaking to get the mids with a nice even and rich sound.

It is a little buzzy. The only thing I like better is the Klirrton Oh My Goat Preamp.

But at $370.00 USD plus shipping and tax if it gets caught in the radar.