OVERDRIVE- THRILLTONE Drive Recovery ...game changer hi tech or ????

 THRILLTONE DRIVE RECOVERY 

$275.00 USD

From France comes an OD with some entirely new
tech. What this does is feed in harmonics in relationship to your dynamics of your picking. The standard method of using clipping diodes is that by nature they have an extremely limited range and at some point they jump from partially adding dirt to full on dirt. This tech feeds the dirt in just a little at a time making for a more realistic transition just like a tube.

The layout is a bit different the drive and overdrive are two stages of dirt so you can adjust this smooth addition to harmonics to taste. Different tube amps have different characteristics, Some clip earlier then others so this allows you set the dirt to mimic how fast or smooth the transition is. Even clean you can hear a hallo of harmonics around your notes. You can refine this on the first stage drive knob. The second knob allows for the second stage to take over from the first and 
add even more dirt. The level remains locked to the spot you set it
even if you change the drives. Adding the harmonics does not 
increase it. Tone is simple it is just your standard low to highs. 
'Character' is once again tied in with the harmonics to better 
mimic say a clean Fender amp 
or a hard hitting Marshall.

CONCLUSION
Well it works ...lol
I can tell because it adds the harmonics in but not smooth like a tube but in tiny bits that I find at best animated or at worst annoying. It comes off like a gaininest in motion. If you are using a good medium 
to high gain OD using clipping diodes it will be more abrupt but a real tube amp is just as abrupt with that much gain forcing the transistors to loose all there headroom. This tech if perfected would make dead clean thru to low gain wonderful but as yet I find it too crude.
That said I am listening thru studio monitors so I am picking up a lot of detail. It is still damn impressive and my Marshal Plexi amp on clean could well smooth this right out!

BUT all OD have a basic voice and characteristics and I find this pedal thin.
Origin's Revival Drive have addressed this issue in some other way. I expect by using high end digital to feed the analog dirt into the drive. However they do it ..they do it better because there Marshall sound is fat!!!