two new pedals arrived over the last few days, and I'm very pleased with both of them.
First, there was this...
which opened up to reveal this
I thought for a long time about this before deciding to take the plunge, it's not a cheap pedal! Every reaction I've seen has been overwhelmingly positive though, so I decided to go for it. And so far, I'm glad I did! It sounds phenomenal! It doesn't sound or feel like a pedal, it really is like playing through an amp. It can do very good pushed clean sounds, and it has absolutely colossal amounts of gain. I've only scratched the surface yet, with it's gain range and it's very powerful EQ, there are a lot of sounds in there.
And then there is pedal 2. A few years ago, Home Brew Electronics brought out a Paul Gilbert signature pedal called the De-tox. The idea was that you plugged it into an overdriven single channel amp, and when you hit the pedal you could clean up your sound. Unlike just lowering your volume, it also had EQ controls. Well, it seems HBE has gone, and the pedal is pretty much impossible to find.
And then this was announced...
As it says, they call it an Underdrive, and it really works! As well as having a bit more sparkle than just lowering your volume, it's also instant, which is great :) And it works nicely with the Orange too.
So, two very excellent pedals. The Bax Bangeetar is expensive, and I believe it's a limited run product, but I have to say it seems worth the money.
I'd recommend the Orange Evo Underdrive to anyone that uses a single channel amp, or even multi channel amps to add another sound. I think it would be good with something like a DSL to use the crunch on the green channel and still get a clean tone.
