OVERDRIVE- DR SCIENTIST The Elements ...is this the best OD ever made??? it really could be

 DR SCIENTIST THE ELEMENTS 

$200.00 USD

I have 82 pedals wired up as 4 separate boards. They are attached to 2 boards for portability. These 2 boards are patched into one. 

A switcher lets me turn each board on and off. 

If that sounds confusing try this. At the gig I have and use all 82 pedals that day at the performance. 41 are dirt pedals. 

I play a style of Prog Metal.  ....Big but!

I am missing just one single sound. I do not have a dirt pedal that is as huge as a Doom Metal pedal but with the dead clean attack and definition of a Djent pedal and can do both sounds at the same time 

and still sound killer. Yes Finding such a pedal is very likely improbable and close to impossible to make :-)

Right now I switch between at least 4 different dirt sounds in one tune. Often one or more of those 4 choices has a row of 2 or 3 pedals stacked.

I still am not happy. I play a couple of tunes where there are lightning fast runs going into power chords then back to the fast runs. These changes are too close together to switch between 2 pedals. Think of it as going to a Doom sound then to a Djent and doing this back and forth over a few bars. Switching between a verse and chorus is not hard but going back and forth several times within them is not.

THE ELEMENTS

This pedal has 41 reviews!!! Not even the Ibanez Tube Screamer has more.

The pedal gives you the ability to turn it into anything from a clean boost to low, medium high gain or any genre of Metal pedal. You can also use it as an EQ 

pedal and each separate function is world class.

CONCLUSION 

So why doesn't everyone just get this pedal? It sounds like a miracle??

Simple. The smallest difference in tone created just by a maker choosing an equivalent part by a different manufacturer has its own coloration and the human ear can hear that.

So if you just need a perfect Blues sound or Doom sound or whatever there is a perfect pedal. What this pedal can do is give you the mirror image of any sound but like a mirror you will notice it is an accurate reflection but not the real thing. It's real strength is anything in the 'real pedal' you find lacking can be fixed. For example you like a Tube screamer but hate it has no lows. This pedal will get you really close to the ts ...but fix the lows at the same time. So in my case I want Doom pedal that is tight with cutting attack. I 'think' it may just be able to do that.

THE VIDEOS

As for the video's going from left to right the first is best to cover lower gains and Bluesy stuff.  The second is good for Marshall like settings. The third is aimed at the 'How To'  with lots of knob turning. The fourth is for Metal. 

The second definitely shows you what you have a to work with in general. I like the second because a couple of good Marshall sounds in a pedal are always useful. The first showing low gains is the least impressive. Being picky with lower gain is given. A good low gain can turn a rather average amp into a great one or save a poor amp from making you cringe. I could not fault a pedal not specializing in them to be expected to be anything but passable. 

Really Massive Metal sounds have so much gain that you are judging the bass and lower mids for their ability not to get buried by the drums and bass guitar and you are looking out for any buzz, especially high frequency bee buzz.