Friday, April 30, 2021

OVERDRIVE- SOBBAT Drive Breaker DB-1 ... uniquely clean and transparent

SOBBAT DRIVE BREAKER DB-1 Distortion
$185.00 USD
This pedal has been in production in Kyoto Japan since 1995. 
Sobbat make 12 OD's and 2 Fuzz pedals all very old school handmade. They have made pedals for Eric Johnson, Ritchie Kotzen, Steve Vai, Doug Aldridge and others only because these artist sought them out. They are not just under the radar but near invisible.
All there pedals are uniquely transparent and are in
most respects only slightly lower and lower gain from the DB-1. They are all about subtleties in tone.
Nothing sounds like a Sobbat just like before all the clones nothing sounded like a Klon. They are not a copy or derivative of any pedal.

CONCLUSION
It has a Klon like vibe but the mids seem nearly flat. The harmonic contain of signal become boosted and the signal smoothly compressed but there is not the slightest fuzz or fizz in the signal. Impressive.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Nice honest review. I have one of these pedals also the Db2 and Db3. They really are impressive. I Play mostly LP's but they work well with single coils as well. A future classic, if it's not one already.

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