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One trick pony, and not really that good at it
The pedal does what is says on the tin, and only that. And even, not that good honestly.
Pros:
- it really has loads of gain, and the low/high gain filter is really good if you want to have a focused distortion sound
- integrated noise gate is nice and necessary for the huge amount of gain this pedal provides
- the 5 eq controls are nice to further shape your distorted sound
Cons:
- the knobs are just too tight and unreadable, it's really hard to move a knob without moving the adjacent ones too
- there's no lower gain settings, it doesn't go from 0 to 11, but from 10 to 11 if you get the gist
- the noise gate control is useless from 0% to 50%, it just doesn't do anything
- the high/presence eq section auto-oscillates, which means that if you put these knobs at more than 20% you'll hear a horrible high-pitched squeal, now I understand why in every video review I've seen of it they always say to keep the presence and highs at 0% to "tame the high frequencies"
All in all, I've tried to get a useful tone out of this for a bit with no success. I really wanted to believe in this pedal, the idea of having basically a 3-in-1 pedal (noise gate, distortion, eq) was really nice, but I'd rather have 3 separate pedals with more quality and control than 1 that does all three things mediocrely.
Pros:
- it really has loads of gain, and the low/high gain filter is really good if you want to have a focused distortion sound
- integrated noise gate is nice and necessary for the huge amount of gain this pedal provides
- the 5 eq controls are nice to further shape your distorted sound
Cons:
- the knobs are just too tight and unreadable, it's really hard to move a knob without moving the adjacent ones too
- there's no lower gain settings, it doesn't go from 0 to 11, but from 10 to 11 if you get the gist
- the noise gate control is useless from 0% to 50%, it just doesn't do anything
- the high/presence eq section auto-oscillates, which means that if you put these knobs at more than 20% you'll hear a horrible high-pitched squeal, now I understand why in every video review I've seen of it they always say to keep the presence and highs at 0% to "tame the high frequencies"
All in all, I've tried to get a useful tone out of this for a bit with no success. I really wanted to believe in this pedal, the idea of having basically a 3-in-1 pedal (noise gate, distortion, eq) was really nice, but I'd rather have 3 separate pedals with more quality and control than 1 that does all three things mediocrely.
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