Re: Tonight We'll Unveil the SFX-03
I heard this pedal at NAMM demoed by Scott Miller with a Fender Strat with a full size JB bridge humbucker through a blackface Super Reverb.
Sounded very natural and very, very good...great for blues and everything up to but maybe not including heavy metal, which is fine with me! I really appreciated the Twin Tube Classic more natural tone and that Bagful of Angry Bumbee Bees thing is available from a jillion other pedals, so why bother?
When Scott wanted a really saturated tone, Scott was using a Duncan Pickup Booster to push it harder for the more super saturated "metal" type tones, so by itself it didn't seem to be a super distortion inducing pedal.
I didn't get to play it myself or tweak the settings...I just listened.
Like Christian said, the Super Reverb always sounded like a Super Reverb...the TTC didn't turn it into a Marshall or a Boogie.
Seemed to me to very useful for getting a natural overdriven tone at lower volumes and for setting up a lightly overdriven rock rythym tone and then kicking it up a notch or two or three for solos.
Since Scott had a JB in that guitar, I asked him if he could goose the pedal's settings a bit to get the tone Satch gets on "Always With Me, Always With You"...one of my favorite overdriven rock tones on record. The way Satch plays it, it sounds like the notes are just squirting tone out of the speakers!
Although the description of the pedal says "Over 90db of gain...allows ultimate saturation and sustain" I didn't hear ultimate saturation coming from the pedal...just great rock and blues tone.
Anyways, I liked what I heard...although I think it'll appeal to more mature players and guys into blues and rock moreso than guys into super saturated buzz tone.
Lew
