PITCH SHIFTER- KLOWRA Dive___NEW___ high-end quality & features but budget price

KLOWRA

DIVE

$130.00 USD

The company has always focussed on high spec with full features at a reasonable price.

The layout explains what it is about short of me writing a manual. 

The layout is Drop A, Drop B, Glide, Mix, with a button and 

toggle for routing.

 

               CONCLUSION __

It is called Dive because they know the kind of clubs it will 

be used in, lol. Some of their full size pedals are $10 more. 

The price was expected to be closer to $100, WTF. 

To be fair you get your money's worth. 

BIG BUT it has flutters meaning loss of pitch/tuning. 

Not for me!!! 

 

ELECTRO-HARMONIX DELUXE MEMORY MAN ___CHOOSE OUT

 electro-harmonix 

DELUXE MEMORY MAN

 $1200.00 USD or more

A great pedal is the sum of the designer, the available parts 

and the cost to build it. V.3 came out in 1990 & is the go to.  > > >

We now have its replacement and a smaller budget one. 

The Nano. In my opinion they all sound similar 

and they all sound Pro.

$250.00 USD

 

I am totally happy with my Movall clone as the difference  

between it and the nano is inconsequential.

$215.00 USD

CONCLUSION ___ Like all Rock gear the best is the one that inspired us when we heard it used by a great player, or we matured to, when we found what worked for us. 

The Deluxe Memory Man works for me but that said the Movall Falling Star nails it so why spend more?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

$45.00 USD

The first ... more of a collectors item _$1200 USD
few still work. It sounds like the 1990 but is very noisy. 

 

                                                  

SNEAK PEAK ___ KLOWRA seriously good new mini budget pedals

KLOWRA 

Budding Bloom Series 

You can order direct from Klowra. Shipping will start in July. All pedals are $130.00 each.

In short not available ???  Yet, 😇

 

 

 

ASAP |  

As always I will Post each pedal with a full revue when I have prices and individual video 

reviews.  

What grabbed my attention on this video is the Rotay. They are ideal if you flat pick and/or 

are doing tunes that could well be done on an acoustic but if nothing else that is not 

feasible or perhaps you may only do a verse or chorus or mid 8 and not the whole tune. 

OVERDRIVE- WALRUS AUDIO 385 Overdrive MKII ...Bell & Howell make a come back

WALRUS AUDIO

385 OVERDRIVE  MKII

$250.00 USD

In the days before digital, movies made using film for industrial & educational were all 16mm. These projectors were smaller portable 

and cheaper & so ruled the day. For smaller audiences it worked  

really well but video killed it. That made for a lot of cheap used projectors. In fact I bought one in the late 60's to use in a Prog   

band for special effects. 

It was found that if the pre in if use with a guitar had a really  

cool crunch sound.

The layout has Volume, Treble, Bass and Gain. A has a separate 

Volume and Gain that is foot switchable. A toggle adds a boost.

    CONCLUSION ___

It has a very distinct gritty cool sound with a

heavy punch and balz plus. Love it!!! 

 

PREAMP- BENSON (little box.) Benson Portable Dist.424 MKII___NEW___ WTF !!!

$200.00 USD

 Benson 

PORTABLE DISTORTION 424 MKII

This is there take of the preamp in a Tascam PortaStudio.

The layout has the pretentious labels that in plain pedal 

talk are Volume, Gain, Treble and Bass.

CONCLUSION __

Your friendly neighborhood tech would tell you you had a basic overdrive pedal. You get a $180 paint job with a $20 sound. 

It is thin, wimpy, nasal, muddy and lifeless and above all 

mediocre. I own a $23 Chinese Timmy Overdrive that in

a blindfold test you would pick over this as a far, far,

far more pleasing sound.

 

thefineprint

P.T. Barnum is touted as the worlds best con artist 

who got obscenely rich by convincing others night 

was day and black is white. When asked how he 

did it he said ...

                 "There is a fool born every minute"

OVERDRIVE- CAROLINE GUITAR CO. Aaron Graves OD___NEW___ best of the best ???

C A R O L I N E    G U I T A R  C O M P A N Y

AARON GRAVES OVERDRIVE

$200.00 USD

The company was formed by Phillipe Herden in Columbia South 

Carolina in 2010 when not so unlike today the economy had ...tanked?

I can not help that think this pedal that has borrowed from the best 

bits of his discontinued earliest pedal the Haymaker is more than coincidental. The pedal has a very organic Bluesy Americana vibe.

The layout is Volume,Tone and Gain with a toggle for more gain a 

second tightens the lows.

            CONCLUSION ___

This pedal sounds like the best of the old late 50's 

early 60's amps. In fact much more like them  

than nearly all of of what's out there which are far

too distorted and lack the excellent definition of

this pedal. In short this pedal has nailed it!!! 

thefineprint

Aaron Whales recently passed. His music was very late 50's folk oriented 

that spawned the folk rock of the 60's. It was more often very  

whimsical and celebrated all that is positive and inclusive.