DOLAMO D4 DISTORTION
The Dolamo brand is made by Caline. A few of their dirt pedals are dead on. The others are crap. They lack any harmonic detail. The D4 is one of those few exceptions,😏. Be forewarned Dolamo make the D5 Distortion (painted greyish green) and D9 (painted red) Distortion so it is confusing.
$25.00 USD I think this is a generic stab at getting a contemporary Metal pedal for the player that wants to 'Chug'. It has however, probably by luck, have caught the vibe of the Fortin NATAS amp. They are famous for this amp but also make a pedal of it.
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CONCLUSION___It is impressive, a bit noisy but impressive.
If part of your thing needs this kind of sound
then go for it. If it is your whole focus than
check out the Fortin or the Solar CHUG.
...at the price it is hard to say no, ordered one from TEMU lol. and it arrived.
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...One thing is true unless your whole gig is Doom or some genre where anything less than 110% gain is never used then the best sound the Overdrive pedal will have is with the gain somewhere between 10 and 2 o'clock. Anything hire is a Fuzz. Nothing wrong with Fuzz but those I buy when the goal of the designer was to make a Fuzz, not a high gain overdrive.
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...I set my Volume at unity gain and my Tone and Gain both at 2 o'clock. I got a massive scooped sound. The low bass and highs are where you expect but it had just the right lower mids and a gentle poke around 800 Hz. It really pulls off a faux gourmet Metal amp like vibe. 😇
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What do you think of the Caline So What flanger?
ReplyDeleteIt is very good. You get a Regeneration control that double backs the signal so you can push it into some scary territories if you wish. I am fairly sure it it uses the reissued old Panasonic BBD chips 3102 and 3105. They make a huge difference. There is nothing entry level about it. It is the real sh@t. Thanks for the heads up. I put it on my short list to review.
ReplyDeleteGood idea!
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