OVERDRIVE- FORTIN AMPLIFICATION Tempest ___ NEW___ more than an OD

FORTIN TEMPEST AMPLIFICATION

$230.00 USD

This company caters to Metal players. The guys with Metal stacks playing at ear bleeding levels with maximum gain. They make such amps but also pedals.

The Tempest was originally a custom pedal for the Metalcore band Architects who needed a pedal to get a consistently usable sound from the many amps they were using in the studio and when touring without taking their own amps. 

I have found by buying their mini Fuzz that you can stack it on a MIAB or even another Metal pedal and get very similar results of the gourmet Metal amp stacks. In other words playing thru a clean amp at low volumes is not a problem. Unfortunately I have the same problem as guys with these amps. More on this in a bit.

The pedal is simple to use. You have simply volume and gain. The voicing is probably based off of the Metal player's companion OD and booster the Ibanez TS9. You then have a variable high pass control that literally slices off the lows so you can get a very precise cut on the really low, lows. Another control is a low pass filter that cuts the highs in the same way. Any high fizz, hash or ice picky sounds simply vanish.

This is not a new idea. The first was the Pro Tone Attack Drive. I have been using one for years. The Attack has 5 presets for the high pass filter and does not have the low pass filter.

To me if you are a pedal guy this is really much more a tool. It's a Booster with gain and EQ. Without a good OD, Fuzz etc or amp with a fairly high gain channel etc. on it's own it is pointless.

CONCLUSION

I love the idea of being able to have variable the low and high pass filter on sweepable controls. I will probably stick with the devil I know, the Pro Tone, but if I did not have it I find this simply a better idea.