TRUETONE SON OF HYDE v.2 DISTORTION
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| $100.00 USD |
The company was formerly known as Visual Sound and was started by Bob Weil in 1995. Bob is a living legend like Mike Matthews of
Electro Harmonix.
Although bankrupt do to debt from before Visual Sound started up. He created the very popular Jekyll & Hyde pedal. It was the first dual pedal ever made. It consisted of a modded Tube Screamer and a modded Marshall Shredmaster.
This is years before AnalogMan took a Marshall Bluesbreaker and a Tube Screamer and modded them into the King of Tone pedal. lol
He also started One Spot power adapters.
the first adapters that worked on all pedals when
every maker sold a priority adapter.
As popular as the pedals and adapters were
from the start. The banks would not negotiate
the loans that could and would be paid.
So Bob and his pedals started all over.
The Son of Hyde is derived from the dirt half of that Jekyll & Hyde pedal.
The latest version has been tweaked to accommodate dialing in a tight hum free Metal pedal.
The layout is simple with Drive/Gain Treble, Mids and Volume. A switch lets you go from a compressed over saturated sound to one with more headroom and a nice bright sound.
CONCLUSION
Well straight off my description nails it. It is what you get.
I have reviewed a lot of Metal pedals of late because not only have you guys asked me to but because Metal has attracted so many virtuoso players.
Ten years ago they would have felt more comfortable heading towards Fusion and low gain pedals.
There are Metal pedals between $20.00 USD to $100.00 USD that are damn impressive but they all seem to lack a good sustain let a loan great sustain.
BUT! Often one finds outside of some shredding the bulk of any playing is riffs and rhythms supporting a vocal where a pedal like this can be a blessing.
The look of the pedal goes all the way back to the Visual Sound days. the newer pedals are more compact but keep the look. Dead Cool if you ask me ...the world doesn't need another Hammond B box
On a final note
I have a lot more research to do but it looks like
good ol' Bob owns One Control pedals.
Maybe 2 more brands but I can not confirm
them yet. It even appears he may be starting up
companies to make pedals finding creative
guys to make and design them and others to
run them. Once they have a team that can run
the little company. He puts that team in control
And then moves on and starts another like it,
All are small, self contained and run independently.
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