TRUETONE
JEKYLL & HYDE OVERDRIVE V.3
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| $200.00 USD |
The company has have been around in one form or another ever since. They lost the company name in a bank closure thing do to cash flow. They were selling pedals faster than they could make them. They made a comeback with another name Truetone. Ol' Bob figured when the world went to using power adapters and not using a battery that something more affordable than a Boss Adapter would sell well. He started the One Spot company to make those. The company has ceased making new models of pedals and even discontinued all but the original 4 classics. I believe the guy that's been there since the early days runs the day by day operations. Bob also owns One Knob the Japanese pedal company.
The pedal is an old style OpAmp hard clipper that started with the Rat and spun off from there. New at the time were the Marshall Pedals that aimed at being an Amp-in-a-Box was showing the way to go. So the J&H started there. Over time various things were added. A full tone stack a second voice with higher gain and knob to put back in some cleans to add definition.
CONCLUSION
It definitely has a 'thing' but when it comes to hard clipper's the old BOSS SD-1 is still hard to beat and at $60.00 USD new and cheaper used. You could go for a modern take on the pedal that started the MIAB thing the Marshall Guv'nor which Wilson Effects Sparkling Blue at $150.00 USD does a killer job of. I have both of these and they are keeper :-)
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