MONOLITH DISTORTION
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| $170.00 USD |
So this is Laney's first OD and like their Booster made in the UK. It is so new the paint's wet.
I am sure it would not be called Black Country Customs if Laney started making pedals from scratch. I expect Laney accumulated the company to have a product that added to or even improved the sound of a Laney amp.It indeed does just that!
The pedal has a gain, volume, and tone controls a low end cut to tighten the sound. A 3 way switch lets you take the sound from a low gain to medium gain to a high gain OD.
It is predictably well designed and well made. It is versatile and covers a lot bases from a virtual boost pedal to a full metal tone ...doing all 3 is nothing new but doing them well is yet another. Tom Quayle is
already a big fan.
It is obviously not a Tube Screamer but one must keep in mine that it was designed to add and boost. like a ts it is meant to add to an already great sound.
It is not a a self contained modeling of an amp. it was not designed to go into a clean neutral sounding amp and become the entire 'personality' of your sound.
Definitely worth putting on the short list. I would put this beside anything you were thinking of for a long comparison before I dismissed it.
It is a kind of an 'Emperor' Tube Screamer.
So keep that in mind it is not meant to turn a Fender into a Brit Tone Stack it is meant to take that same Fender and make it a Super Fender.
ME??? No I am in the camp of setting my amp to a pleasant but chunky clean sound and choose a pedal to own the sonic space. As a result I have 22 OD's.
So 'My Sound' is actually 22 sounds.
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