I got this little guy on a whim a few weeks ago because I had done some looking into the circuitry and someone was selling a broken one that had seldom been used on Reverb for small change ($60) because the battery plug was busted and the power supplies are unique and impossible to find. I did some quick work fixing the plug and plan to install a standard power supply.
It's a two sided analog pedal. It's "programmable" in that there are 8 dip switches and 2 knobs on the inside. The first side is a near clone of an HM-2 plus a neat optional 10 to 40 ms delay. It doesn't really appeal to me all that much but the right side is what really stands out to me.
It's combination of a Tube Screamer and a powerful parametric equalizer grants an incredible range of tones, from creamy blues to searing leads to crunchy metal rythmn in just a few knob tweaks. Also it has a lot (and I mean a lot) more gain on tap than a standard TS while still being able to get clean.
And when I say the parametric eq is powerful, I mean it. It can have a center frequency from 100 to 3700 hz, +/- 20 dB of boost/cut, and a Q of between 0.1 and 1.6 octaves.
A high gain Tubescreamer with a true parametric EQ made in limited quantities in the 80s in the USA? How come the pedal dweebs haven't latched on to it yet?
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