Tonerider BD-1 British Distortion

Distortion pedal hand made in China
Fully Analog
True bypass

Very simple: input, output, gain, volume and tone.

Simple appearance (perhaps a bit too sure of). It is true that it is not very pretty but I personally do not care and quite frankly I prefer it to look too "offset"



UTILIZATION

As mentioned earlier, super simple.
The knobs are reactive and can really vary the sound, the big crunch at the disto well supported.
It quickly found its sound.

SOUND QUALITY

This distortion is known as British because it refers to British amps of the 60s and 70s.
And here I must say I was impressed by the sound quality of this pedal in terms of its price. It is actually very faithful to its British.
Close your eyes and you're at Woodstock in the 60s! It was a good soft as the Marshall 70s.

As mentioned above, the knobs can really interesting variations in color of sound.
Good headroom But do not still play metal with this pedal (and besides, I do not care, I do not play!) However, by increasing the tone, the sound becomes more " piercing "and whistling.

A moderate gain, it responds very well to changing attack mediator, allowing a nice dynamic.

Tested with single and double coils, I found she was fine with everything.

OVERALL OPINION

Used recently purchased "for show" and because I wanted a distortion pedal a little vintage spirit without going into too large modern loadings. It will soon come join my pedalboard so I was convinced of his sound.
I had a Marshall Shred Master pedal and was looking a bit in the same spirit but with more vitality and bite. I also had many other distortion pedals much more expensive (Blackstar HT-Dual, silverdragon, DS-1, ProCo Rat, Satchurator ...) I found what I was looking for with this pedal.