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moosers
Published on 08/09/09 at 00:24
The DigiTech Screaming Blues is a basic overdrive and distortion pedal that claims to be good for blues music, but is fine for any type if you indeed like what it has to offer. I wouldn’t say that it is necessarily best for blues… The pedal has a ¼ inch input and two ¼ inch outputs and can be powered by either a 9 volt power supply or battery. It isn’t a rack mountable piece of gear as it is a stomp box.
UTILIZATION
The configuration of the DigiTech Screaming Blues is really easy to understand as the pedal has the basic set up of four parameters. The pedal has knobs for level, low, high, and gain, which is pretty much the exact parameters that you would expect for an overdrive pedal. I can’t imagine that anyone would have problems understanding everything about this pedal because it is just that easy to use. Even if you don’t have experience with other distortion and overdrive pedals, this pedal is so straight forward that you shouldn’t have a hard time with it and don’t need a manual.
SOUND QUALITY
The sound quality of the DigiTech Screaming Blues is sub par at best in my opinion. While I haven’t used this pedal all that often, I tried it out a few times and was never impressed with it. While it sounds fine for messing around in your basement if you are looking for a cheap overdrive and distortion pedal, as far as recording goes I would stay away from this pedal and wouldn’t even recommend it for live shows. To me it sounds tinny and lacks a certain full sound that I look for in a distortion pedal. I tried the DigiTech Screaming Blues with a Fender Strat and a ’65 Fender Deluxe Reverb amp, so the sounds that I heard were pretty accurate.
OVERALL OPINION
While I haven’t used the DigiTech Screaming Blues all that much, I have used it enough to know that I don’t want to have any part of it. Like I said, it will work fine if you are just looking to play around and add a little distortion to your sound for your own kicks because it is cheap enough for that, but if you are serious about getting good tones for recoding or live shows, this isn’t the place to get it.
UTILIZATION
The configuration of the DigiTech Screaming Blues is really easy to understand as the pedal has the basic set up of four parameters. The pedal has knobs for level, low, high, and gain, which is pretty much the exact parameters that you would expect for an overdrive pedal. I can’t imagine that anyone would have problems understanding everything about this pedal because it is just that easy to use. Even if you don’t have experience with other distortion and overdrive pedals, this pedal is so straight forward that you shouldn’t have a hard time with it and don’t need a manual.
SOUND QUALITY
The sound quality of the DigiTech Screaming Blues is sub par at best in my opinion. While I haven’t used this pedal all that often, I tried it out a few times and was never impressed with it. While it sounds fine for messing around in your basement if you are looking for a cheap overdrive and distortion pedal, as far as recording goes I would stay away from this pedal and wouldn’t even recommend it for live shows. To me it sounds tinny and lacks a certain full sound that I look for in a distortion pedal. I tried the DigiTech Screaming Blues with a Fender Strat and a ’65 Fender Deluxe Reverb amp, so the sounds that I heard were pretty accurate.
OVERALL OPINION
While I haven’t used the DigiTech Screaming Blues all that much, I have used it enough to know that I don’t want to have any part of it. Like I said, it will work fine if you are just looking to play around and add a little distortion to your sound for your own kicks because it is cheap enough for that, but if you are serious about getting good tones for recoding or live shows, this isn’t the place to get it.