OVERDRIVE- OBSIDIAN AUDIO Death by Preamp Pedal ___NEW ___ High Gain do-it-all

$300.00 USD

OBSIDIAN AUDIO  

DEATH Preamp Pedal  

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The layout is Bass, Mids and Treble. A toggle lets you switch for using as a stand alone Preamp or going through the frontend of your amp. Another control is for Bright and still another is for Contour and it reshapes the Treble control. A smaller knob controls Depth and another adds Presence. It seems more complex than it is but the video is easy to follow.   

 

CONCLUSION ___  

It is definitely one size fits all simply because if it is in your head there is knob or more to find it in the pedal.  If your music and/or gear changes over the years this can dial in that change.  

 

HOW GOOD ARE THEY ??? ____BEHRINGER VINTAGE SERIES PEDALS

 BEHRINGER  

VINTAGE SERIES   

OVERDRIVE- MOVALL MP113 Screaming Twice Retro Edge Dist. ___NEW___Metal Muff?

$40.00 USD
AliExpress w/ free shipping

movall 

SCREAMING TWICE

A gritty Fuzz like high gain OD. No derivative is mentioned but 

it is similar to many that clone a Electro Harmonics Metal Muff. 

The layout is Volume, Gain, Treble, Mids and Bass. A toggle 

lets you choose either a Vintage or Modern voice. 

 

            CONCLUSION ___

The brand is well made & most of their pedals 

give you a pro sound. The price is good. 

That said ...the SHAEVLE Iron Revolt is a seriously 

good Suhr Riot Reloaded clone for $20.00 USD 

on Amazon.

                         

OVERDRIVE- Kz GUITAR WORKS Kz BM Drive ___NEW ___ Brian May-in-a-Box

$190.00 USD

Kz Guitar Works

Kz BM DRIVE

Just dial up a clean sound on your amp and you get an instant Brian May sound with a VOX AC30 with a Rangemaster Treble boost all dialed and ready to go in this tiny little mini pedal. The layout is Volume with a toggle for that bright sound and another toggle for a Tight, Low or Fat. On the left side are 2 screws adjust  another Gain and Tone to get the 'Deaky Sound' that Brian used in the studio. 

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   CONCLUSION __

Dead cool idea. 😇 

What's not to like. 

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Simon Jarret's ___KINGSLEY AMPLIFIERS ___Version 3 Overdrives, even a Jose mod!!!

KINGSLEY   

Tube overdrive pedals made for those tonally 

anal about tone, 😇.

I am seriously considering about getting the 

$435.00 USD Minstrel. It now has a killer 

classic 'Jose' mod triggered by the mode 

switch.

NOTE: pedals at 48:00

OVERDRIVE- MASATONE EFFECTIFIERS Hard Rock Machine II ___NEW ___MIAB w/tube

$280.00 USD

Masatone Effectifiers

Hard Rock Machine II

A small on-line Japanese maker that at the moment appear to have just 

2 pedals. This is version 2, the first was introduced 7 years ago. It is their take on a Marshall JTM45 and features using a 12AX7 tube, correctly running on a charge pump to run at a high current. The layout is Volume, Gain Mids, and Edge/highs. A toggle voices the unit for 3 gain stages. 

  

           CONCLUSION __

Its hard not to like in spite of being a bit dark. 

It lacks some bite and sparkle. Even so it is 

damn impressive

OVERDRIVE- SILKTONE Green Hell ___NEW___ Tube Screamer clone with a ...

$200.00 USD

silktone _____  

  GREEN HELL   

The intention was not to reinvent it but to set it to its sweet spot and add some serious life and expression by using an expander circuit to punch 

up the whole sound. The layout is of course Volume, Tone and Gain 

with a toggle to add levels of expansion. 

     CONCLUSION ___

The secret sauce is the Expander. An expander is the opposite to a Compressor it pushes up not squeeze down. Think of it as giving 

poke to every click of your pick on a string.

That said all that poke turns it nearly into Fuzz. If you are looking 

more to this pedal as a transparent booster as in a Stevie Ray 

Vaughn thing this is NOT it. Get the $200.00 USD KingTone Soloist.

     

OVERDRIVE- OVALTONE Fat Plexi ___NEW ___MIJ ... sounds great!

$210.00 USD

 Ovaltone   GUITAR EQUIPMENT

F·A·T  PLEXI 

Made in Japan by a small company with a dozen assorted dirt pedals and some Pickups & Asc.

The pedal is a take on a Marshall Plexi dialed into a crunch 

sound. 

The layout is Volume, Gain, Bass, Mids, Treble and a Boost.

     CONCLUSION __

It has a nice balzy punch & good sustain. It is going for 

a crunch & there is lot of definition. 

Marshalls own 1959 does this & more for $160.00 USD. 

Although it focuses on higher gain the Tone City Golden 

Plexi is worthy of anyone's attention. It is $60.00 USD. 

 

REVERB/DELAY- GFI SYSYEM Solis Ventus .... Nerds or the Nosy

GFI SYSTEM

$550.00 USD

 S O L I S V E N T I S     

This unit takes no prisoners, LOL. It covers all the basics and no end of 'Stat Wars Only'. That said it 

is much more user friendly than units that do 

half as much.

      CONCLUSION __

In the real world it demands a leaning curve 

too demanding for many of use. Me included. That said just like a Ferrari it is always nice to pull on the gearshift and push some buttons and switches. 

In other wards hear some presets. __

OVERDRIVE- TONE CITY Nashville ___NEW ___ or not ????

$65.00 USD

 

TONE CITY   

 Nashville 

If this is an obvious Nobels ODR 1 Then what happen to their 

Nobleman version? If it is v.2 why change the name? WTF!

The layout is Volume, Tone and Bass Cut/high pass filter.

            

      CONCLUSION __

Nobels make the ODR Mini 2 for $80.00 USD 

which is not a lot more. Sooo....