OD is Glorious
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I am happy with the aesthetic and the build. It is attractive to me and functions great. This is a dirt pedal: extreme dirt or moderate dirt with no ability to get clean or even semi-clean overdrive by rolling off gain or adjusting tone controls. I do not find versatility in such a pedal and the tone controls do not significantly alter the tone enough to please me. I would give it the edge over Angry Andy (which I really hated) because if you use this as a straight dirt pedal it works ok. I feel like the Marshall-type Article 59, and other plexi pedals are abundant and I needed this pedal to show me something more. There is headroom and maybe I am being too hard on this circuit. The pedal is not for me but YMMV because others love it.
The build is not difficult and the board is laid out well. There are not any obscure parts and I built this in a few hours today. I used a traditional waterslide on a Tayda enclosure. I clear coated with SprayMax 2k glamour. The knobs are 15mm anodized blue. There are two clipping LEDs; the bom calls for two 3mm red diffused LEDs to be entombed in the enclosure. Instead I used two 5mm red LEDs. I also prefer to see the LED clipping so I exposed one through the enclosure near the footswitch. I used a Lumberg D.C. jack and two Switchcraft stereo jacks. I initially put a battery snap in there but it was not a great fit so I removed it.
It is supposed to be overdrive/distortion but I think other pedals do both better. It is not that it is bad distortion, it is just not at all different or unique among the 100s of dirt pedals. Other Marshall pedals for instance can get a much glassier tone and the distortion is looser.
The build is not difficult and the board is laid out well. There are not any obscure parts and I built this in a few hours today. I used a traditional waterslide on a Tayda enclosure. I clear coated with SprayMax 2k glamour. The knobs are 15mm anodized blue. There are two clipping LEDs; the bom calls for two 3mm red diffused LEDs to be entombed in the enclosure. Instead I used two 5mm red LEDs. I also prefer to see the LED clipping so I exposed one through the enclosure near the footswitch. I used a Lumberg D.C. jack and two Switchcraft stereo jacks. I initially put a battery snap in there but it was not a great fit so I removed it.
It is supposed to be overdrive/distortion but I think other pedals do both better. It is not that it is bad distortion, it is just not at all different or unique among the 100s of dirt pedals. Other Marshall pedals for instance can get a much glassier tone and the distortion is looser.
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