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2 pedals I have recieved in the past month or so...
The first is a rangemaster clone from Scavenger effects. Built by Mr. Philip Chevrier, our own forum brother Surgeon. I tested this running it into a Delta Blues set with some darker tones. Every time I turned this pedal on it gave me instant Brian May tone.
It cleaned up as well as a treble booster can but most importantly it made everything tighter and more defined, no matter the setting. Basically it's just a really good treble booster. Big thumbs up here.
The second is a Orange Squeezer Compressor clone by the same builder. It is relic'd which I normally hate with a passion but I thought this particular finish looked cool so I asked him to do it on this pedal. It's hard for me to review this one because I use comps differently than most people. I set them for absolutely no squashing effect because I hate that sound. This pedal has an internal control that controls the amount of compression and the outside knob is the volume obviously. The way I have the inside knob set, there is almost no compression at all.
I have it set so that when the pedal is on, and the volumes are balanced out, you can only detect a slight increase in sustain. What I'll do is use it as a slight volume boost and with the compression down so low basically what you get is an "overdrive pedal with no drive." This is the sound I was going for. It adds sustain without squash, sounds very natural, evens the strings out just a little bit and sounds really quite astounding for clean solos/leads or I guess just anything clean in general. I absolutely LOVE this pedal. LOVE.
(and if you like squash, it does that really well too, just not my thing)
I know my reviews are probably awful. I don't review stuff often but I feel like these should be reviewed because they are for an up and coming builder on the forum and they are just great, great pieces of equipment. Thanks Phil!!!
Your comp will be on my board for years!
The first is a rangemaster clone from Scavenger effects. Built by Mr. Philip Chevrier, our own forum brother Surgeon. I tested this running it into a Delta Blues set with some darker tones. Every time I turned this pedal on it gave me instant Brian May tone.
It cleaned up as well as a treble booster can but most importantly it made everything tighter and more defined, no matter the setting. Basically it's just a really good treble booster. Big thumbs up here.The second is a Orange Squeezer Compressor clone by the same builder. It is relic'd which I normally hate with a passion but I thought this particular finish looked cool so I asked him to do it on this pedal. It's hard for me to review this one because I use comps differently than most people. I set them for absolutely no squashing effect because I hate that sound. This pedal has an internal control that controls the amount of compression and the outside knob is the volume obviously. The way I have the inside knob set, there is almost no compression at all.
I have it set so that when the pedal is on, and the volumes are balanced out, you can only detect a slight increase in sustain. What I'll do is use it as a slight volume boost and with the compression down so low basically what you get is an "overdrive pedal with no drive." This is the sound I was going for. It adds sustain without squash, sounds very natural, evens the strings out just a little bit and sounds really quite astounding for clean solos/leads or I guess just anything clean in general. I absolutely LOVE this pedal. LOVE.(and if you like squash, it does that really well too, just not my thing)
I know my reviews are probably awful. I don't review stuff often but I feel like these should be reviewed because they are for an up and coming builder on the forum and they are just great, great pieces of equipment. Thanks Phil!!!
Your comp will be on my board for years!
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