OVERDRIVE- WAY HUGE Green Rhino Mk5 'Smalls' ...10 years on, still going strong

WAY HUGE 

GREEN RHINO MkV 

$150.00 USD

This is George Tripps take on a Tube Screamer. The layout tells the story.

The obvious Volume, Tone and Gain are as expected. The magic is with Frq. which is a boost or a cut which is determined by a switch inside the pedal at 100K a bass frequency or the mid center frequency of 500K.

The pedal is set at the bass boost setting at the factory. Both frequencies can can fatten the sound or scoop it. Curve ...is a low pass filter to cut 

or push highs. Useful to brighten a dark amp or keep a bright amp from getting spikey.

The thing about any ts is that it is unlike a tube amp with asymmetrical distortion. A tube amp has a mix of both uneven Fuzz like frequencies mixed with the sweet ones of symmetrical distortion. It loses the rawness in favor of transparency. A ts by nature has a poke at around 1K that some love and others hate. it also has a very weak low end. 

George fixes this with those 2 extra controls.

CONCLUSION ___

It is what it is. A ts sheep in a wolfs clothing. What transparency 

that a real ts has is virtually gone. It is not a Boss Blues Driver 

but it does a very similar job by coming thru the back door. 

If however you back the gain nearly off it will give you a 

very full open grainy, but pleasantly grainy sounding 

boost pedal as noted in the second video.