OVERDRIVE-NRG Purrer ...not a King of Tone but selling to the same crowd

NRG EFFECTS PURRER 

$400.00 USD

It all started when tube amps got dimed just to be heard over the crowd.
Things that needed a cleaner sound even to be passable were dropped and things like sustain and new techniques like the Blues vibrato and string bending became the new vocabulary for the electric guitar. Fuzz added to the mix but the early OD's gave the player better articulation. These early drives were their own thing. They morphed into OD's that could imitate fully dimed amp sounds. In the end the winners were those that could get nearest the center of the bullseye in making you think a Fender Deluxe sounded like a Marshall stack at the click of a switch.

In the last few years some makers have gone back full circle to an OD that is literally it's own thing. They take the most usable elements of distortion and tone and touch sensitivity to create an OD that is in a word 'musical'. they suggest the sound of a real tube amp but are not a mirror of any of them.

The most obvious is the King of Tone and the Klon. There are several others all with a similar vibe or they lean towards a 'dumble' thing but they all have a distinct fingerprint.

The NRG is firmly in that niche. Like the Klon and the King of Tone it has morphed thru many versions. It is quickly getting scooped up by guys that even own a real King of Tone and other pedals of that niche including the Dumbelish things.

The newest enclosure give the pedal a classic 'Serious Tool' look from the 'It's Only Rock & Roll' roots. Both are available, but the line up is in front of the new model.

The layout has treble and bass with a gain and level for both channels and a master volume.

CONCLUSION

It has a very natural and warm tone. Even at very low gain there isn't a trace of any nasty square wave fizz. Doing that borders on the near impossible. It ain't your Grandfathers Tube Screamer. The price certainly underlines that.

The real problem with a pedal like this that no matter how good it is, that buying it is like buying a Ferrari only to find out your 'thing' is a Porsche. The result is you are going to stay with your Ford F-150.