Wednesday, August 11, 2021

OVERDRIVE- PERF DE CASTRO BAD94 DIST. ...Marshall Shredmaster supercharged!!!

 PERF DE CASTRO BAD94 DISTORTION 

$150.00 USD
If you have every watch Youtuber Perfs site over the last 21 years you will know the guy does great reviews and there is zero B.S. He is also a great player and often does the free lesson thing. The bottom line is he is a 'For Real' nice guy. 
Two of his favourite pedals are made in the Philippines where he lives, They are both killer OD's which were based on the original and defunct Marshall Shredmaster. I tried to buy both of them I say tried to buy but as fate would have it both makers it appears to have retired.
Perf used the two pedals as the basis for his own and then kept on tweaking them for months to get them right. Small things like front loaded jacks and compact size but using a bit more height in the box to fit all it's features.
The layout is simple, easy to use but really effective. You have the usual bass, treble, volume and gain . The cool thing is it has the contour control that lets you sweep the mids while voicing the pedal. It is not your standard quasi parametric mid thing were you can cut or boost a specific frequency but the range of the width is fixed.
CONCLUSION
It covers a lot of ground from the 80's to the present and never loses its amp like voicing so your sound never starts to have an artificial or Fuzz like quality. In short
it is very organic sounding. Add to that Perf lives in the REAL world. The price is very reasonable for a quality pedal.

2 comments:

  1. Hey mang! Thanks for this blog post! I have one BAD94 on hand and the Mini version is now available as well. 😉

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  2. I picked one up locally and I love the tone, it's the first version.

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