Wednesday, April 29, 2020

OVERDRIVE/FUZZ - IDIOT BOX No Moon...The 3 Muffketeers ??? Sort of

 IDIOT BOX NO MOON OD's 
What if you had for dirt boxes a Big Muff, a Rat and a Tube Screamer and you put all three separate dirt pedals into the same box??? Well you would have a damn big box!!! Oh my you do! You have a damn big box. OK the thing is there is nothing tricky about this. The only thing they share is an input and an output jack. They really are just four separate dirt pedals. No they do not stack. You are not running one box into another like you would or could if they were in separate boxes. I stack pedals and it is not such a great thing because first you are boosting a pedal that you bought because it sounded great but know you want something more...more lows ...the harsh edge of a Muff etc. 
But you cannot just add the bit of one pedal to a bit of the next etc. If however they are totally separate you can. You can knock off the highs from one pedal increase lows from the second etc. and just blend them at the output.
$200.00 USD










CONCLUSION
Well it works!!! you really can get a lot of variety of sounds. Obviously so much dirt is going to give you mostly Metal like sounds. But good ones? Well that is up to you to decide. I would prefer a single OD with a similar separation of sound designed to work in tandem together by good design. BUT! 
No one makes one
OK the separate units sound pretty good nothing extra special but very serviceable units.

If you re into Doom, Stoner, Sludge etc this could be a really great pedal because no matter how over the top you like your dirt pedals such pedals present problems.The Full Moon is a bit tamer, more predictable and easily controllable. You may not find it as cool ...but damn handy. It is not bad to have one dirt pedal that comes with a steering wheel. Some dirt pedals in these genres have endless drop outs and splutter fits. Stacking them with this pedal would make sure you are never left with embarrassing silences  while your killer Fuzz monster decides to come back up for air.

1 comment:

  1. Got one on the way - I use all three to goose other dirt pedals ( mostly fuzzez), (and I'm really getting into running my dirt in parallel lately) so I'm kind of stoked to try this behemoth out on my doom board.
    🤘💥😃

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