Demonfx Jan Ray
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| $40.00 USD |
In any case the original has been around for 10 years. It was in a category that was referred to as a 'Dream Pedal'. My first impressions back then was a WTF one. I thought the thing was crap. To me it was just another Tube Screamer. The fact is this and most lower gain pedals are soft clippers based from OpAmps chips not cascading JFETS that actually mimic a real tube. The ts was the first of these OpAmp wonders.
In any case outside of buying a real Fender blackface amp these are perhaps a necessity if you are a Strat guy and need a crunch sound that
leaves some of that Fender chime left in the mix.
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| $375.00 USD |
The layout is simple with gain, level, treble and bass.
CONCLUSION
There is only one video and it tells you little. Anyhow, I put
a video up of the real one so you can compare.
How do you know the Lilt Gladiator 1 is a gladio copy? I don’t believe the gladio has been traced yet but have been looking for a clone because I will never spend the cash on a real one.
ReplyDeleteI believe the other gladiator is based off the dyna red distortion.
FWIW, I own one of the “LYR” dualguns but haven’t been impressed. Very noisy, and seems like the pots are either The incorrect value or just the wrong taper. Trying to adjust the tone does barely anything unless it’s the first 10 percent of rotation or last 10 percent.
I don't know. But when I saw how the average reviewer left his settings for the best sound I got the same and equally great sound. Tone at 12 o'clock, clean at 2 o'clock volume at unity gain, and the comp turned off. Secondly if you can read past the bad translation on how the 'clean' works it is the same tech they use to restore antique audio. It is not old school trial and error from a self taught amateur cloning the work of another self taught amateur. One last thing. There is a second pedal in a large casing called a Gladiator with large retro looking emblem on the top of it. The Gladiator 1 is in a standard Hammond style B box painted black with gold graphics. As for the Dyna Red it does not leave that Dire Straits Sultan of Swing Strat chimey sound coming through. It smoothers all the chime and it is heavily compressed. The Gladiator and Gladio are much closer to just a really dead clean boost pedal with a gentle compression and exaggerated overtones.
ReplyDeleteThe TS was not the first of it's type....they actually copied the Boss SD-1 overdrive pedal, but could not use the same asymmetrical clipping diode design (it was patented by Boss).
ReplyDeleteSo they tweaked it for Fender guitars & amps instead.