OVERDRIVE- DRUNK BEAVER MD-1 Metal Mind ___NEW___BOSS MD-2 Metal Zone clone

DRUNK BEAVER   XR Series   MD-1

  METAL MIND  

$90.00 USD

The defunk Polish brand Exar did both the MD-03 and the MD-04  

which was their take on the Trash Metal Boss MD-2 Metal Zone 

pedal. The D.B. version borrows from all into a nice neat package. 

The layout is comprehensive but complete. It has Level and Gain 

with active Bass, Mids and Treble. 

     CONCLUSION __

The look is understated and yet very functional with 

the clock like divisions for the knob settings. The 

overall vibe is a hot rodded Marshall thing with 

a near cocked Wah mid boost. The harmonic detail 

is impressive the mids are neither melted or even

smeared. Impressive. The price is bang on!!! 

 

FUZZ- SolidGoldFX Fuzzbox Bender Fuzz ___NEW ___punchy Tone Bender MKII clone

SOLIDGOLD FX

FUZZBOX ToneBenderMK2

$200.00 USD

Another modded classic from the guys that capture the vibe 

when they clone but literally fix and only fix problems with 

the original. The layout is Level, Gain, BIAS and Sag/input 

level. BIAS on the original was fixed so if it was not on the 

sweet spot it can sound very good but not great. A toggle 

switches from vintage to a modern sound.

     CONCLUSION __

SolidGold Fx have a following and they alone will 

scoop the first batch. I myself have their Fuzz Face

I can get a Fuzz going in OD tone without even

stacking it. It is a killer sound with a Tele.  

The Fuzzbox Vintage sound is to die for and 

the Modern takes it to never, ever-land!!!

 

____ the original Swiss Army Knife pedal ....the Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer

IBANEZ TS-9  

TUBE SCREAMER ·   comes back home

NEED TO KNOW ___the 12AX Tube/Valve ___King of all Tubes

THE ULTIMATE|TONE|SHAPER

99% of all tube amps use this preamp tube. It is the one that when

overdriven gives you the distortion that makes the ultimate 

supreme dirt sound possible.

    

OVERDRIVE- THORPY FX Gunshot OD Judge Dredd Lawbringer ___NEW___ ?-in-a-Box

$370.00 USD

Thorpy FX   GUNSHOT OVERDRIVE  

JUDGE DREDD 

LAWBRINGER EDITION   

Thorpy takes the obscure than interprets even to the more obscure 

and then adds back what we all want when we check the boxes. 

Yes you get definition, a decent sustain & some breadth/fatness. 

Just for fun they do not tell you what pedal they cloned and did 

all that to. 

The layout is Gain, Tone, Volume and Calibre/bright gain. 

            CONCLUSION __ 

WTF ???  __Version 2 of the 11 year old 

Gunshot STACK-in-a-Box. A $270.00 pedal 

cased in a $100 box, 😇 

 

2015

___STRAT PICKUPS ___5 BEST ___5 WORST

STRAT PICKUPS BEST FOR WHO? 

OVERDRIVE- ACORN AMPLIFIERS Vegeta Drive___NEW___ Boss clone ?

ACORN  AMPLIFIERS 

  $150.00 USD

 Vegeta Drive

According to them it is an OpAmp hardclipper Distortion. 

In all probability based on one of the Boss dirt pedals. 

Probably the Blues Driver or OD-1.  

The layout is Volume and Gain and a toggle gives it a 

boost, but like the OD-1 it doesn't have a Tone control.

     CONCLUSION __

It virtually is a one trick pony. However that one 

sound is cool and the price is reasonable. 

That said the Joyo Bright Day Blues Driver can 

cover this kind of sound and a lot more for a 

nice and cheap $40.00 USD.

AMP MODELER- OCTAVE HS-1___NEW___ a Windows OS Tablet that does most all

OCTAVE HS-1   

$950.00 USD

This is the beginning of the future for any brand of Amp Simulator Multi FX tech. Holywood have been using off the shelf Laptop Computers that come in Military grade enclosures to do do all their in the field audio for decades. They would have had crippling financial loses if this method was not both sonicaly reliable and robust enough to get smashed and banged about. 

 CONCLUSION ___

It is a 100% nobrainer that a company making units today can only sell thousands where Windows, Apple and Android based tech is made in the millions. 

Yes there will be still foot controller tech made from simple to mind boggling complexity to interface with  

these computers. It will come all dressed in steel 

cased enclosures with graphics reflecting the 

ascetics of the day, 😇

OVERDRIVE- BARBER Midnight Standard___NEW___BluesBreaker bested!

BARBER ELECTRONICS

MIDNIGHT  S T A N D A R D 

$170.00 USD

The basic pedal is based on the Marshall BluesBreaker with the 

usual Volume, Tone & Gain but 2 toggles are added. One controls 

the headroom with more or less compression & the other adds 

lower mid resonance typically created by cabinet resonance.

            CONCLUSION ___

Dave Barber has been around for over 30 years 

quietly making killer pedals & sold at reasonable 

prices. Many that others literally stole his ideas. 

Keeley became famous with their 4 knob Comp. 

That extra knob was to blend in cleans. It was a 

rip from Dave's Compressor. All of the Barber OD  

pedals sound like you are not using a pedal 

you simply have a better amp.