OVERDRIVE- MENATONE Red Snapper ____ NOT NEW _____ since 1996 ...27 years

 MENATONE 

$230.00 USD

RED SNAPPER

Brian Mena has been hand making this pedal since 1996. The first one was
in a full size enclosure that morphed into a type B Hammond style and now you can even get a through hole version in a Mini pedal.

Brian is also literally world famous for his handmade pipes. He loves his work but works to live he does not live to work. A classic artist in every way.

The pedal was the first of what we now call a transparent high headroom pedal. It has a huge open sound that lets the guitars sound come through. 

The layout is Volume and Gain. You have cut for the gain. You also can add Bite. It adds a crystal crisp cleanish tone to the whole sound. 

CONCLUSION

A pedal with persona! 😏

the fine print

A clone??? Yes but it took awhile the XIAO Protone Custom shop make the XIAO PEDALS Red Snapper has been listed in AliExpress for only a few weeks. zero videos so I can hardly say how it sounds. My inside guy in Taiwan who is in Asian only Distribution of all MIC pedals not only knows about all the MIC pedals and even the guys that make them enough to tell me all the gossip hasn't heard of them. Most of the clones that even use the names and graphics are tied in with Moogoo which is best known by the Mosky brand. The hand made mosky and Demon FX are even in the same small factory.I do know that XIAO is a guy. Mr. Xiao and seems to know his sh@t as he can talks in OpAmp & Diodes free of cool & hot in his writing. 

The reviews from English speaking buyers of his other products are glowing. The only bad review was a guy with a classic Fuzz that the glitching and spitting was because the Fuzz is faulty, LOL.