OVERDRIVE- ANASOUNDS High Voltage OD ...a 'PURE' Marshall-in-a-box?

 ANNASOUNDS HIGH VOLTAGE OD 

$250.00 USD

If you have ever played a real classic Marshal Super Lead 100 amp. Yes Malcolm Youngs of AC/DC's only amp you would shocked at how little gain it has. Even dimed by today's standard it has a very light Crunch. Players in those days usually used a Rangemaster treble booster to give the upper mids a Tube Screamer like punch in the upper mids and always, always a Fuzz. Usually a Tonebender or a clone of one. Builders who make a MIAB usually shoot to give you the sound you hear on those old recordings so they build both the missing mid boost and added Fuzz pedal right into their box by increasing the gain and shaping the EQ.  I have no problem with this but it is nice to have a choice. Malcolm Young's amps are set up with the volume on '4' so they are damn clean. He gets his sound by sear volume of using a pair of them. It is more about the feedback that level creates thus creating a feedback by all the level going constantly back thru his pickups.

CONCLUSION

If you have a modern MIAB I feel this pedal could be a better value than

if you do not. Why??? Well the trouble is it is not unusual to play a MIAB

thru a very clean amp. When you switch from that clean to all that screaming 

distortion and turn it off it sounds weird, unnatural or even jarring. In short

this pedal could be your low gain OD or even your clean sound.

THE FINE PRINT

I quite like this pedal but to be honest it has a focus on 

the integrity of the clean bottom half levels of the Plex's 

spectrum. Most buyers are going to crank a MIAB pedal. 

When it comes to that you are concentrating on a perfect 

Crunch. The pedal that has the most 'authentic' Crunch 

is the Columbo Audio Electronics Plexi Breed.

If you really want to totally nail that classic sound as 

close as realistically possible you would get both. 

BIG BUT!  

Otherwise I would get the Columbo.

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