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Was out running errands today and popped into used gear shop. Decent price on this so I grabbed it, as I’ve been wanting to scoop up a high gain pedal again to use with my deluxe reverb, and I’ve heard nothing but good things about these
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Does it rip?
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The secret sauce with these is that there's an internal gain trimpot in addition to the one on the face of the pedal. i found that the stock setting of that trimpot was WAY too high. i cranked it almost all the way down and the pedal came alive.

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macgaj3 wrote:The secret sauce with these is that there's an internal gain trimpot in addition to the one on the face of the pedal. i found that the stock setting of that trimpot was WAY too high. i cranked it almost all the way down and the pedal came alive.

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Yeah this! Lower the trimpot. It makes a huge difference.
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Congrats, I want one at some point.
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I have one, great pedal man. Its crazy how good this will sound thru a clean amp.
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It sounds fucking incredible



It’s a 1,000,000/10


Initial impressions thru the deluxe reverb at low volumes were not good. In fairness, I think changing the Jensen speaker might be in order as my problem was the same that I have with most drives I’ve tried. Boxy and honky sounding. However I jammed that rig with my drummer and at volume it sounds amazing. Chugs are fantastic but where it really shines is on leads


I also tried it through my roadster earlier and that was -really- impressive. I could totally use the roadster as a pedal platform with this thing.
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spawnofthesith wrote:It sounds fucking incredible



It’s a 1,000,000/10


Initial impressions thru the deluxe reverb at low volumes were not good. In fairness, I think changing the Jensen speaker might be in order as my problem was the same that I have with most drives I’ve tried. Boxy and honky sounding. However I jammed that rig with my drummer and at volume it sounds amazing. Chugs are fantastic but where it really shines is on leads


I also tried it through my roadster earlier and that was -really- impressive. I could totally use the roadster as a pedal platform with this thing.


Jensen style speakers seem to have a very pronounced midrange to make up for the Fender scoop. On cleans they’re amazing and make single coils thick as honey. On dirt they’re way more picky. I think this is why muffs work with them because the scoop of a muff balances against those speakers. I feel like doing the same to my Vibrolux. I keep eyeing a set of Celestion Creamback 10s for that reason. If you do change your speaker, just box up the current one and put it in a safe place. You may want that sound later.
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spawnofthesith wrote:It sounds fucking incredible



It’s a 1,000,000/10


Initial impressions thru the deluxe reverb at low volumes were not good. In fairness, I think changing the Jensen speaker might be in order as my problem was the same that I have with most drives I’ve tried. Boxy and honky sounding. However I jammed that rig with my drummer and at volume it sounds amazing. Chugs are fantastic but where it really shines is on leads


I also tried it through my roadster earlier and that was -really- impressive. I could totally use the roadster as a pedal platform with this thing.

When these first came out, the local shop was running it thru a CARR amp to demonstrate just how it can turn a clean amp into a high gain beast... honestly it was impressive af
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Nice!

I had one of these quite a few years ago; sent it to JerEvil to demo for his YT channel. He ran it thru a clean Fryette power amp and it was straight deadly, still one of my fav demos he ever did.

This pedal is legit AF
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