OVERDRIVE- AMUMU Hot Summer Overdrive ... a simple effective idea ...ingenious?

$235.00 USD

AMUMU 

Hot Summer  OVERDRIVE

The site is vague but I would guess the company is Japanese. They make 3 pedals but also sell PU's and Straps. The pedal is a transparent chunky, medium gain Overdrive. The ingenious bit is they have built a compressor into the circuit to simulate what others get by over saturating the signal with gain. A switch brings it in but you can leave it off for more headroom and a more transparent sound. With it on it creates the illusion of a gourmet amps Crunch sound.

   CONCLUSION ___ 

The idea is great but I think if it is used more

as a boost it would be more effective as it

lacks rich overtones and harmonics. 

You can find 3 or more budget OD's of this 

quality, if not  even better. In fact you could 

get a better sounding OD and a compressor 

that you can comp all you pedals with 

much cheaper.