Wednesday, October 15, 2025

OVERDRIVE- TAMPCO PEDALS & AMPLIFIERS Tone Oven ...transparent? ...or

TAMPCO 
$220.00 USD
TONE OVEN
The designer has had all the classic transparent drives on his bench and 
on his scope. He designed this by seeing what they didn't do, lol. I expect 
the layout is Volume, Tone and Gain? The left footswitch increases the compression/saturation. Inside there is a switch to cut some bass and 
another to reduce the saturation. 
   CONCLUSION __
There is no such thing as a transparent OD. There are low
gain ODs and ODs with cleans blended in or even Clean 
Boost pedals called ODs. 
My ear says we are dealing with symmetrical distortion.  
A Tube Screamer is ALL symmetrical distortion. The voice 
of the Tone Oven is much flatter. It doesn't have a ts poke 
in the upper mids. I expect used as a boost stacked on
other dirt pedals it could really fatten them up.  
 

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