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«  It transforms any metal! »

Published on 07/23/12 at 00:12
This is a distortion pedal with moults settings.
Gain, Volume, 3 band equalizer a + a frequency filter media and a noise gate.
Building the confidence and reliability, the knobs are sturdy and the box, although light, provides a solid feel free.
Possibility of a 9V adapter, I plugged personal stacked on the board of the seller. Unplugged the jack when not in use can expect a long screws for the battery.

I'm not a fan of 10, even if I lower the overall average, the eight that I put is a "true" 8.

UTILIZATION

The manual is very very basic ... same too. Editing sounds is quite naturally if one is accustomed. It should avoid extreme positions of knobs (bass style bottom, mid cut ...) if one wishes to have a sound similar to something.
The doses are very high gain even with the gain set very low.

SOUND QUALITY

I tested the pedal 2 config.
First on a Strat plugged into a standard Laboga The beast itself plugged into my house 1x12 Jensen. For the second config I plugged my Tele FMT HH with its Tone Zone in an acute in Sipder III 75W.

The sound quality is pretty binary: if you want to play heavy metal stain of the Slayer what's all good, if we look a versatile overdrive pedal for cruncher, this is not the equipment that will be directed.

Sounds all have the characteristic of being dug in the midrange, mushy and aggressive. They are very accurate cons and provide a lot of fun and rhythmic palm mute. After testing of a config we can notice that the dynamics of the lamps is a bit lost. The strat sounds like a racing metal guitar despite its single coils and the pedal does not respect the personality of the stuff on which it is connected.
On the Config 2, I pushed the vice by giving me a tone lower and there is the slap ... the rhythmic poudrent fly, adding a mid yields of lead sounds very acceptable but again dedicated to a single style. This pedal sounds only comes out of metal but it is well taf. The last test to do would be accompanied by drum and bass rhythm guitar. I suspect she does not throw in the mix but it is to be confirmed.

In short this is the sound of metal and attention, not heavy or power. Thrash sound, aggressive punk or death metal and black. In this register it overwrites the Spider III digital distortion and overdrive of The Beast seems to be sound "bluesy" ...

The rating reflects only the sounds of metal.

OVERALL OPINION

It's rare that I write a test as quickly acquiring equipment but this pedal really does not require a long apprenticeship to learn the essence.
I tried it in / / a Boss DS1 and a Metalcore. I was looking for the true metal sound and uncompromising in this register it has crushed the competition as the digital simulation of the spider.
It is dedicated to one style but it does its job. Very rhythmic and compelling offering a wide range of opportunities to refine the basic sound enough typed it is a good companion for those who like to shake his head while playing hard.

Since I was looking for a disto dedicated to metal but I'm satisfied I do not advise that in this framework.