The JEM Ghost
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Today I had the chance to give my new metal distortion a test run, and I wanted to share my experience with it, because this turned out to be a very interesting stompbox!
First let's introduce the pedal we are talking about here: the Hell Dude from Eagletone (Eagletone pedals are relabeled Biyang Tonefancier pedals, so this is in fact a relabeled Biyang Metal End), here is a picture:
It has loads of pots and switches, but what is remarkable is that they all turn out to be very useful, making this a very good and pretty versatile metal distortion box.
Let's start with the pot controls, there is your regular level (vol), dist (gain), low (bass), and high (treble), the middle control works in conjunction with the mid freq control that lets you select which bandwith of mids to boost or cut.
Extended EQ, but nothing too special so far, the Metal Zone or Jackhammer has a similar tone shaping control, but there are four toggle switches on the Hell Dude, so let's see what they are for:
-"Voicing switch" (most to the right): this probably let's you select between different input capacitors, offering you three different voiced tones: normal, bright and warm, kind of speaks for itself how it effects your tone I guess.
-"High Cut switch"(second from right): this is pretty obvious what it does too I think, it enables a filter that will take out some treble, smoothing it down, this is an excellent option if it goes into a bright amp!
-"Clipping Switch" (second from left): let's you select between three different clipping styles to finetune the type of distortion you are getting from the Hell Dude. Another nice feature normaly only found on boutique pedals or DIY or modded ones.
-"Amp Simulator switch": maybe named a bit wrong or weird, can't realy say until I try it directly into a power amp via the effects return. Turning this switch on when going into the amps input is very useful too I think, it boosts your signal even more, makes it more compressed and even more powerfull, definitely another very useful feature when you are after the heaviest of all, or just need to "reinforce" the used amps basic sound.
Although I am a fan of the Biyang Tonefancier pedal line (and all the rebrands that are exactly the same such as this Eagletone) and I expected their metal pedal to be good, this thing still pretty much blew me away!
Sound shaping options are diverse, accurate and very useful! I am pretty sure this thing can sound great on most amps, from bright to dark, with just a short time of tweaking the pots, and selecting the toggles to your needs!
It was a bit of a strange sight seeing my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe blasting the air to pieces with this thing in it's input, but a very satisfying one! :approve:
For being such a killer gain pedal, the Hell Dude is not noisy at all imho, so that is a huge plus there as well! It is also "True Bypass" (and it realy is, not just claiming as many other pedals) so there is no worries at all about tone sucking when the pedal is disengaged, another thing I can really appreciate in it.
I would strongly recommend this pedal (they sell real cheap!! Most of the time it's too good to be true, but this ain't, believe it or not!) to anyone looking for a great metal and heavy styles distortion!!
A lot of metal distortions that I have tried in the past were just obnoxious, but in a bad way, the Hell Dude is obnoxious in the great way!!
Hope my report on this pedal may lead some "Hell Dudes" to the blistering tone they are after!!
Today I had the chance to give my new metal distortion a test run, and I wanted to share my experience with it, because this turned out to be a very interesting stompbox!
First let's introduce the pedal we are talking about here: the Hell Dude from Eagletone (Eagletone pedals are relabeled Biyang Tonefancier pedals, so this is in fact a relabeled Biyang Metal End), here is a picture:
It has loads of pots and switches, but what is remarkable is that they all turn out to be very useful, making this a very good and pretty versatile metal distortion box.
Let's start with the pot controls, there is your regular level (vol), dist (gain), low (bass), and high (treble), the middle control works in conjunction with the mid freq control that lets you select which bandwith of mids to boost or cut.
Extended EQ, but nothing too special so far, the Metal Zone or Jackhammer has a similar tone shaping control, but there are four toggle switches on the Hell Dude, so let's see what they are for:
-"Voicing switch" (most to the right): this probably let's you select between different input capacitors, offering you three different voiced tones: normal, bright and warm, kind of speaks for itself how it effects your tone I guess.
-"High Cut switch"(second from right): this is pretty obvious what it does too I think, it enables a filter that will take out some treble, smoothing it down, this is an excellent option if it goes into a bright amp!
-"Clipping Switch" (second from left): let's you select between three different clipping styles to finetune the type of distortion you are getting from the Hell Dude. Another nice feature normaly only found on boutique pedals or DIY or modded ones.
-"Amp Simulator switch": maybe named a bit wrong or weird, can't realy say until I try it directly into a power amp via the effects return. Turning this switch on when going into the amps input is very useful too I think, it boosts your signal even more, makes it more compressed and even more powerfull, definitely another very useful feature when you are after the heaviest of all, or just need to "reinforce" the used amps basic sound.
Although I am a fan of the Biyang Tonefancier pedal line (and all the rebrands that are exactly the same such as this Eagletone) and I expected their metal pedal to be good, this thing still pretty much blew me away!
Sound shaping options are diverse, accurate and very useful! I am pretty sure this thing can sound great on most amps, from bright to dark, with just a short time of tweaking the pots, and selecting the toggles to your needs!
It was a bit of a strange sight seeing my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe blasting the air to pieces with this thing in it's input, but a very satisfying one! :approve:
For being such a killer gain pedal, the Hell Dude is not noisy at all imho, so that is a huge plus there as well! It is also "True Bypass" (and it realy is, not just claiming as many other pedals) so there is no worries at all about tone sucking when the pedal is disengaged, another thing I can really appreciate in it.
I would strongly recommend this pedal (they sell real cheap!! Most of the time it's too good to be true, but this ain't, believe it or not!) to anyone looking for a great metal and heavy styles distortion!!
A lot of metal distortions that I have tried in the past were just obnoxious, but in a bad way, the Hell Dude is obnoxious in the great way!!
Hope my report on this pedal may lead some "Hell Dudes" to the blistering tone they are after!!
