OVERDRIVE- A J PEAT Fat Peacock ...60's MIAB ?

A J PEAT

FAT PEACOCK

$180.00 USD

Andrew James Peat from Orange county California is certainly under the radar. He does the usual array of basic pedals focusing on the old school things. The Fat P. is his take on a Marshall JCM 45.

The layout is volume, gain, treble bass and a switchable boost. The topography is the basic early OpAmp Ibanez/Boss thing.

Cheap but endlessly adaptive to shaping into anything from low gain to high gain pedals.

This a category where small choices in diodes and a basic great fixed EQ is everything. It is also a category where once the price gets past a bit silly you are either buying into hype or great graphics on the usual Hammond enclosure.

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CONCLUSION

It is a basic old school hardclipper. Dad was a Rat and Mom was the Boss and this is their kid.

The JTM 45 was rougher around the edges than the folklore would have you 

believe but this heads into near Fuzz like buzz with the boost on. It is at its 

best pulled back to a medium gain setting where the harmonics are surprisingly 

rich without any smearing or mud. 

The thing is you can buy a Chinese cheapy MIAB as good or better for between 

$25 to $60. You just have to think ..WTF!!!