Picked this up the other day for $60 from Guitar Center's used site:
I'll be adding it to my board in place of the Pickup Booster once the replacement feet get here. After reading several reviews and also listening to a bunch of demos, I was a bit surprised by this pedal. The boost side isn't nearly as loud as I was expecting, but the EQ works and it manages to stay pretty clean even at the aggressive setting in the pic.
The distortion side was pretty much what I expected except for some rather strange EQ behavior. The mid control is inductor-driven, so it's absolutely dominant as far as shaping the overall tone of the pedal. I wanted a very slight overdrive / grit on my clean channel, so I needed to boost the mids quite a bit higher than I expected in addition to running the gain quite low. It'll do aggressive scooped mids, but that isn't a tone I chase often. The distortion is also fet-based, so it's a bit more amplike than many pedals, despite being a bit grainy.
Overall it's a cool pedal and does what I bought it for. I wouldn't pay the $159 on the original tag, but I generally prefer an amp for distortion.
I'll be adding it to my board in place of the Pickup Booster once the replacement feet get here. After reading several reviews and also listening to a bunch of demos, I was a bit surprised by this pedal. The boost side isn't nearly as loud as I was expecting, but the EQ works and it manages to stay pretty clean even at the aggressive setting in the pic.
The distortion side was pretty much what I expected except for some rather strange EQ behavior. The mid control is inductor-driven, so it's absolutely dominant as far as shaping the overall tone of the pedal. I wanted a very slight overdrive / grit on my clean channel, so I needed to boost the mids quite a bit higher than I expected in addition to running the gain quite low. It'll do aggressive scooped mids, but that isn't a tone I chase often. The distortion is also fet-based, so it's a bit more amplike than many pedals, despite being a bit grainy.
Overall it's a cool pedal and does what I bought it for. I wouldn't pay the $159 on the original tag, but I generally prefer an amp for distortion.
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