$105.00 USD
AFFORDABOARD800 Drive
Yes, actually made in the UK, and very affordable.
A Marshall JCM800-in-a-Box. The layout is simple,Volume, Gain and Tone.__CONCLUSION __Yes it also comes in black. It sounds damn good.
It is very similar to Marshalls own $160.00 USD
JCM800 pedal. The Marshall does have a bit
more bite and the lows have some serious balz.
$280.00 USD ONE CONTROL
Dyna Red DIST v.4
Designed by Bjorn Juhl over 20 years ago. He licensed it to 3
companies over that time. Bearfoot under 2 owners in 2 different
cities then to One Control in Japan. It is quite simply his take on
a MIAB. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble and Presence.
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CONCLUSION __This is v.4. The guy simple has a good ear.How close it is to the amp be damned. Thepedal has been around forever becauseit simply sounds killer!!!
$175.00 USD CD
COLLISION DEVICES FZThis French based company merely announces it is a Gated Fuzz, WTF, LOLIt is however a clone of a Maestro Boss Tone which uses 4 cascading silicon transistors. The Gated is created by starving the voltage source. The layout is Volume, Gain and Gate.
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CONCLUSION __
It makes a very good nasty sound. Thanks to the cascading transistors you can get some low thru
to high gain sounds. In short it is not just a single sweet spot unit. That said we all find a single
sound on are dirt pedals and tend to move
nothing but the volume from tune to tune, lol.
catalinbread
CB PAINT LATE 1900s REVERBERATOR
$250.00 USD In the 80's new small companies sprung up to service the project studios needing Verbs &/or Delays. At first there were the racks.
In fact I have the Alesis Quad Reverb and later half racks like the Microverb.Primarily simple devices with a handful of sounds. What they lacked
in specs they made up for in character. In fact the big studios all
bought them too and kept their pricy units for Vocals.The layout is Tone, Onset (it delays the Verb coming on),
Mix (your wet dry mix) and 6 verb voices.
CONCLUSION __
It is well done and very effective. It is however
neither high-tech sonics nor classic like a Spring
or Plate both of which can be found for around
half the $$$.
DIRTY BOY
SilverBOY
The company are infamous for making odd analog pedals by coming to the idea through the back door. This is for intent & purpose a MIAB but the voice was emulated by using the
$475.00 USD
sound of modelers digital version. The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Mids and Bass. Variac adds sag and saturation. There
is a secondary output that is voiced to sound like a cab.
CONCLUSION ___
Once you put the pretensions and gimmicky bullsh@t
aside to have a basic MIAB analog pedal. This one
checks all the boxes and has an overall very pleasing earthy organic sound with a lot of character.The price is obscene. There pedals or
even better for half this.
SD SOLODALLAS
The ComanDrive 65 (CD65)
The video goes into all the detail. The big deal for most buyers
$345.00 USD
is this unit is the Preamp part of Angus Young's of AC/DC fame
wireless system. It changed his sound so much that he recorded
all those famous early recordings with his wireless, never a cable.
It literally exaggerates the dynamic range before compressing
the sound. The result is the sound is sustained but never
squashed.
CONCLUSION ___It is damn pricy but it has a preamp, acompressor and a compandor all in thesame pedal. Each is set to work as oneperfect circuit. A near impossible tasksince a compandor is a device made todo the exact opposite as a compressor.
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DECADES pedals
MULTIJAM Distortion
Multivox in the mid 70 licensed some 19 pedals MIJ to sell as budget pedals. This is a take on the Big Jam Distortion model. It like the
$250.00 USD
original uses the 741 OpAmp and the clipping diodes are the 1N60 Germanium. The layout is Volume, Gain and Tone.A toggle switches between a modern or to the original vintage voice.
A second switch fattens the lows. Inside the box you can cut highs or lows and set the boost level.CONCLUSION ___
It is loaded with character and that germanium diode takes me
to dirt heaven. The cosmetics are great. they captured the look even though we are getting an industry standard Hammond B.
box. $250.00 USD ain't cheap but it has become the standard
price from most small handmade pedals.
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A bit of trivia ...Oddly Hammond are no longer made in
China, but not brought back to the U.S. But made to
original U.S. spec in Canada.
gizmoaudio
S|B sweet breakup
The company is a bit ambiguous but with Marshall
$300.00 USD
amp knobs on the pedal I'm calling it a MIAB. But?The layout is Volume, Treble Bass and Gain. Another
knob is called Bite meant to give you a tight choppy attack. A Fat switch. It lets you cut or boost lows. Internally you have both a lowpass and highpass filter.
A second footswitch brings in a boost.
CONCLUSION __
It sports the right look. It isn't even close to those making a MIAB that can ace a shootout against the real amp and score scary close.
It is closer to a few Bassman/Dumblish efforts. For
those you have a lot of choices. I find both the
J. Rockett pedals are much more satisfying.
RED mod pedals
$340.00 USD
SOVIET guitar preamp
A rather obscure Italian builder. This is his ...Sovtek MIG50
amp-in-a-Box. It is a FET based clone of the preamps circuit.
In one form or another Electro Harmonix has sold it for decades.
The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Mids and Bass.
CONCLUSION __
It sounds like the amp. Nasty, nasty.
It has a lot of character. I love it.
... but not at the price!!!
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