All user reviews for the Carl Martin Plexi Tone

I used the Standard with nearly 22, a strat US in a fender hot rod
I had had a first that I plugged into a blues junior c was already very well but its not quite round on stage
I imagine not even in a twin reverb!

UTILIZATION

taking obvious hand
no prog

SOUND QUALITY

in hotrod j therefore have a clear sound (a real one!), clear + boost, a crunch, crunch + boost, a distortion, a distortion + boost
it's been already 6 channels and more quality is amazing
I've had amps and distortion pedals but the frankly say: the Plexitone is a hard drug.
c is a resumé of 70 years has nowadays pink floyd has anthrax or metallica
fans of acdc or red hot will find the priceless treasure. ca really, one has the impression of being pushed to marshall
I mean of course the fender that has a very good sound clear and thus magnifies the sound.
the only slight defect that is attributed to him in the general c is very acute presents but it's not true with the hot rod which is very round and can accept that we lower his (acute)

OVERALL OPINION

I have a powerball with our cabinet and next to v30 for some other more modern metal things
but frankly I rest knee before this pedal plugged into a hotrod that's a start amp range.
c is very musical actually
manufacturing quality is huge, unbreakable
a great value for the future is certain c.
are things that it's hard to explain eh! ca buy eyes closed!
has put in all your pedalboard rather than buying pedals that are worth a crazy price with a single sound (Full. ..)

Type distortion pedal Marshall Plexi and JCM800 with a boost 20db
Controls: Boost - Level - Tone - Gain - Crunch
Audio connectors: in out

UTILIZATION

Very simple to use, plug (on a clear channel of the amp) and it sounds.

SOUND QUALITY

Saturations are very realistic, the grain Marshall. It takes a little place in the pedalboard ... I most often use my Fender Telecaster Customshop of USA (Di Marzio humbuckers) on a Line6 Spider Valve MKII 212. I also have a compressor pedal Karl Martin.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for about 6 months. I have other pedals saturation (Ibanez TS9/BossMT2). I tried it in store and adopted. It is not given but for the record, there's nothing to say.

all is said in the previous comments
Emulating an overdrive pedal, overdrive channel types Marshall (JCM 800, JTM ...) handmade in Denmark
Little more need not alim on this pedal, it is equipped with its cable

UTILIZATION

RAS

SOUND QUALITY

it sends my stuff is very versatile was the channel that offers a well-muscled and the overdrive channel 2 which starts a step up, the boost I used it ever
I compared it with the Blackstar, Radial, Amt is frankly not the terrible Carl Martin is well above the rest
I used it on a Les Paul and a Trad Slash, looking back I thought it delivered a lot of bass, the sound is heavy, it is loaded even be too little, the grain seems to have compressed them a JCM 800 4010 the sound is not at all true, I think it's more his type JTM, Plexi ...

OVERALL OPINION

At one time there was very little choice on what kind of quality of the pedal Carl Martin seemed an obvious choice for fans of his marshalliennne, today there are quite Wampler brand as I find it excellent (and plextortion plexidrive )
Pedal and resold since I do not elect would do since I switched to Wampler

pedal Overd 2 channels and a boost
a tone
one volume per channel
a general volume
one volume for the boost

generate power by internal (no transformer)

UTILIZATION

very simple

SOUND QUALITY

I had a fender lamp and I want to see an overdrive distortion marshall tip
This pedal has done! is not the marshall sound but are very beautiful, she is very polivalente are with tone, and the boost is very useful at any time (you can use it all the time) there is a lack of some its when all is thoroughly ... boost and we hear you!

the overdrive is progressive with the volume of the guitar (very good)

OVERALL OPINION

very good pedal

it is the small to the large overdrive distortion that dechirre all!
but it is always good

very effectively

What we have here is an overdrive box with three settings. You have a clean boost, an overdrive, and a high gain channel. Traditionally I'm not a fan of these kinds of pedals because you usually get one good channel and 2 meh ones. The layout is simple enough. Tone, level, and controls for the three channels gain levels. It's a large footprint but considering what you get it's no big deal. It's supposed to be all your marshall tones in a box plus your clean boost feature.

UTILIZATION

Carl Martin effects are consistently pretty great for the price. The build quality is the highlight though. Handmade in Denmark... Can't beat it. Honestly this isn't a very difficult pedal to figure out how to use. It's a trial and error thing dialing in settings and like most overdrive pedals you have to find the sweet spots.

SOUND QUALITY

I am very very picky about my overdrive pedals. I've tried most of the ones out there at all price ranges. For the most part I think you get what you pay for with some exceptions. These multi-drive pedals like the plexi tone are typically not too impressive even when they are boutiquey. Carl Martin is what I consider the tip of the boutique iceberg. But this pedal is pretty darn good. Most overdrive pedals falter due to tone issues. They always either sound too thin (TS9) or too muddy (digitech anything). The only really good pedals I've found for the most part are the hand wired upper end single switch pedals. But this Plexi Tone is one of the few stand outs in its price range. The tone control has a wide enough usable range that you can actually dial in a good eq. The high gain channel is admittedly a bit much sometimes and can sound bad at high settings, so be careful. The clean boost and overdrive channel though are really great. They do have a marshally flavor and remind me of the catalinbread DLS.

OVERALL OPINION

The value is the real deal maker for this pedal. It's not the best of its kind out there but for the price you are getting a great clean boost and a pretty darn good overdrive in one pedal. A lot of players could buy this and be done for finding an overdrive. It's really that useful and buys your amp another 2 or three channels. A lot of people use the high gain channel as a jumper for the regular channel. I kind of pretend it isn't there but I don't use it for high gain so...

3 effects in 1 20 bd a boost overdrive distortion is a
everything is analog, but with very little breath
Each channel is independent which is very convenient
the power supply is in the case which is not very practical against the site of a battery

UTILIZATION

Ttres simple to use even without the manual which is very light

SOUND QUALITY

If you push too much overdrive over there too much difference with the saturation of the sound is very good very dynamically distortion very well see for rock hard but not for the metal with my schecter sh1 + sh4 is split All I can do all regitres rock blues and even hard rock with his always well defined and I repeat very dynamic

OVERALL OPINION

Despite its size the box is lightweight is rather robust Brief 230th pros very very good product for the ball

Disto analog mode 3:
_crunch
_high gain
_boost 20db

5 knobs: - Boost - level - tone - high gain - crunch-

all in a solid case, I like the switches because there are not too long.

UTILIZATION

Very easy to use, the settings are basic and very effective, just what is what!
small flat on the fact that there have no marking on the knobs and can be quite annoying to find its config.
switches to "select" and "drive" Separate allow that when you clean reviend in the mode of distortion remains the same and there did not need to reselect when it returns to full.
the boost is when he has ... -Aïeuhh hurts his ears-it ... very effective, I never exceed the setting is more than 9 hours because it sends severe! ideal to hear his little solo or wake up the sound a bit clearer.

SOUND QUALITY

Wouahouuu, she pleased this little box,
The crunch is nice but slams abuse on the set because otherwise it's more of bah crunch.
the high gain tears, I find it hotter than the crunch but did not shine.

the thing that made me alluciner's responsiveness to attack the strings, its relatively high gain crunch we go from almost clean crunch at most, but with a great amount of the gain gradually.
of even playing on the volume or tone of the guitar, it reacts nickel.

if it is on low it's not really very subtle and muted overdrive (although by fiddling a bit)

Another small point against by the knob "tone" is a zero with me! thoroughly is inaudible, but at least it has the advantage of not completely ettoufer sound as it often happens on distos (but the reverse is much background screaming tros)

OVERALL OPINION

I buy OCCAZ 'here on AF and I do not regret it.
I also have a ToneLab SE, but I wanted a pure distortion of very good quality live rock in a clean of my mesa, well, I found!
I use it with my telecaster mounted with Duncan, his slap!! brightness of the bridge pickup and smooth the neck pickup all in one pedal super transparent decoife to each note, thank you sir carl martin. ^ ^

Pure analog overdrive as the name implies a single goal: send a plexi of the brand popularized by the biggest (well for me) I named the two Jimmy.
The connection is simple, only the routing of the three knobs may surprise at first.
The select knob is only effective if the drive knob is ON, in which case it switches to high gain. Obviously done to avoid having to press two buttons when one wants to spend crunch to high gain and vice versa.
Knobs and casing super quality!
A boost, a high gain channel and a channel from light crunch to distortion hairy!

UTILIZATION

The manual is very basic and even that which is available on the net (which is more complete) is not very informative. But hey! It's like buy a Marshall, you do not care of the manual thoroughly while you doing!

SOUND QUALITY

Here we enter the heart of the matter. I had before I went, a little checker all the forums and I noticed a guy called "Big Sioux Chief" I reckon, kept saying: "if you want the vintage sound Marshall pedals do not stop forcing the Fulltone OCD, but check out the Carl Martin Plexitone ". Yeah ... Fulltone is famous Yankee and all that ... and Plexi Dannois? Y s'fout of not'gueule or what?
Okay, so I call the Pedal to Paris (not no! Michou!) And I found Davy (is it that you are the chef?) Who also advised me to try Plexitone. Neither one nor two, as my friend has an OCD, J'lui j'commande tax and the beast! Three day trial with two pedals. And there whoouuuufff! I pass of course, the pensioners of the village we take the emergency room because of the explosions of hearing aid to get to the point! (Aaaahhhh!) The fact is that after hours of adjustments of all kinds, crossing my amp sound vintage to modern, changes in the stratum scratch, the re LP stratum j't'en and password, bah! Mister Davy he was right! One, the OCD is the ball (see the test), the two Plexitone it is as well, the three Plexitone he did much better! Blues sounds through all the crunches in Frushiante Hendrix Jimmy Page through both pedals are equal in sound quality in grain. A little better all p'tit for OCD in very blues sounds. Now for what is sounds that tear her pussy to your grandmother! There are no photo! You can go with the Plexitone where you will never go with OCD. In pure vintage sounds hardos, a good old "Smoke on the Water" at the Start! With LP, you can revisit the "Ocean", "Whole Lotta Love" and other sound you got the master! on the other hand, too careful not to boost the treble on the clean sound of the amp, the pedal takes care of.
Come on, a final adjustment that put me on the ass, stratum 3, 4 in volume, the micro serious crunch the amp at 8 am strong enough and miracle when you play "Under the bridge" it looks like the Red Hot!

OVERALL OPINION

Finally, those without a marshall and want to have this sound in their range without the booklet A fart, go ahead with his eyes closed! And it's not you, it's the crunch, the high gain, both with or without boost, and even boost the sound clear. And what I reckon even without a program to spin wool! So!

Matos: 76 Start, Gibson LP, Rivera KnuckleHead 55, axis fuzz RM Voodoo Vibe RM, tube screamer, whammy, cry baby, Jamman.

The pedal is fairly complete (boost + distortion + big crunch)
Small flat on corecteur tone that does not serve to create a different but to coriger high frequencies. Indeed, as the name implies, it emulates the sound marshall and serves in any way to generate various distortion.
The advantage is that we do not take the head 15 years.

UTILIZATION

I play telecaster american series with a fitted with Kinman broadcaster and a 4-position switch that allows me to have the pickups in series (loosely equivalent to a humbucker)
I send all in one and I use a Fender Vibrolux Tubescreamer upstream to boost the mids and one for the light blues.
The plexitone full well the picture. A big crunch a high gain distortion for large parts of savage rock and boost (which goes "too" fast in the turns) out of the mix in the solos. What more ??....

SOUND QUALITY

There, I admit they have done very Carl Martin. I do not know if it's the hair cell plexi (not like stock) but no problem it's the old marshall sound that made me discover and love hard rock and other music when I was sweet teen (it starts to date!)
Awesome!! The inflections of the pedal according to the attack and the volume of the scratches left me in a state school. My Fender amp, the clean sound I love so much, is transformed into an old Marshall and switch the foot that's integral.
The boost is nickel: neutral (Exess) powerful

OVERALL OPINION

Apart from the limited opportunities offered sound sound explorations we propose the plexi tone is legendary and is sufficient in itself.
The price a bit pricey (+ 200th of new) at first, but good buying a pedal for crunch, one for distortion and a spicy boost would not make the note less salty so we will not be the miser.

This pedal is immediately impressive. One of the only pedals that actually sound like an amp than a distortion pedal. This pedal works fantastically through a Fender clean amp or a Marshall JCM 800 on the clean side. It really drives your amp into a solid sounding plexi tone fit for just about any style of music.

UTILIZATION


Power:
Power consumption:
S/N ratio:
Input impedance:
Output impedance:
Gain max::
Boost max:
Dimension:
Weight: 100 or 115 or 230 VAC 50-60Hz
2,3 Watts
56 dB
1M Ohm
200 Ohm
+92dB
+20dB
186(D) 120(W) 55(H)
0,820Kg

SOUND QUALITY

I have to first say that I am not a pedal type player. I don't particulaly care for distortion pedals of any kind. There are some exceptions but most of them sound thin and tinty to me. This pedal has a real plexi character to it that can fool most tube amp distortion users.

Try this pedal out on from a nice Fender Bassman or a Marshall PLexi or JCM 800 on the clean side and punch in this pedal for some sweet low volume distortion tones. The high gain switch really sound fantastic! Then click to the far left and get the boost going for some lead parts or fills that you want to stand out.

OVERALL OPINION

This has gotten me thinking how well and highly used this pedal has become for so many players. At new these pedals come in at around $260 which isn't bad for a triple pedal. You have a crunch option then a high gain option then click on the boost for lead and soloing.

I highly recommend this pedal for any guitar player who needs a good plexi distortion pedal that sounds very authentic.

Specifications:

12VAC Power with hardwired power cable
3 Modes: Boost, High Gain, Crunch
Settings: Boost knob, Level Knob, Tone, High Gain, and Crunch.
Switches: Boost, Select, Drive

This is basically a distortion/high gain pedal geared towards a vintage marshall plexi-like tone with an additional boost, analog design and very very cool and usable features.



UTILIZATION

This is very easy to use, most pedals usually are unless they're of the new digital programmable types with many different features etc. The boost is controlled by it's own self-titled knob, same with the high gain and crunch modes. The tone is universal and the level is an overall level shared by the two high gain and crunch modes.

Both crunch and high gain modes are seperate, meaning they cannot be used together, however the boost mode can be engaged with either modes.

The drive switch is the bypass/select switch, which enables the pedal to turn on or off. The select switch is used to switch between crunch mode and high gain mode. While the boost switch is to enable the boost feature.

Simple!

SOUND QUALITY

This is the best part! This is one of the rare pedals that actually SOUND like like an amp. Yes I know, a lot of effects manufacturers have advertised this with nearly every single pedal they offer. But I'm telling you, this one is NOT faking it! It faithfully reproduces what I recall a vintage high gain marshall to sound like, it has bite, clarity and is still thick. There's also a slight bit of what I like to call 'twang' that is inherent in plexis.

It even has the noise that comes with boosted/cranked plexis, which is a bit of an annoyance but can be tamed depending on how you use it. The gain is very nice, it can be cranked full out and it won't get muddy, rather it will just get more and more aggressive and add noise (which is normal). I've plugged this pedal in a VHT pitbull head with a deliverance cab, as well as a koch studiotone combo and even a hot rod deluxe and blues junior. The tone of this pedal, stays true within all these amps and is great! The tone knob needs to be adjusted according to each amp you play through of course.

The boost function is also great, though it's more of a clean boost adding more volume it also adds allows more harmonic content to come out.

I've even hooked this up to a fender 25 watt solidstate amp and got it sounding pretty decent, with the tone nearly rolled to 0 since the SS amp was so brittle sounding.

OVERALL OPINION

GREAT pedal! Nails the marshall plexi sound right on the button! The boost addition is great for clean boosts or adding a different texture to the other modes. The overall sound is great, wide open and present. Very amp-like and clear!

I've recently heard Pete Thorn has a very nice youtube review of this pedal. So you can hear great ways of using this pedal and how it sounds. This is one of those pedals I would use if I were stuck with some clean tube amp as it sounds best through a tube amp and not so much a solidstate amp. But it's now one of my go-to pedals for high gain marshall sounds! This is a keeper, definitely!

2 + overdrive a boost
- 2 knobs to adjust levels of each overdrive channel, 1 volume
- A tone knob,
- Boost the volume drunk
- 3 switches

transformer is integrated in the pedal, we must plug into the 220V


UTILIZATION

very classic use

SOUND QUALITY

the best pedal I've tried / use. While the sound of rock / hard rock of the 80s!
On the 1st overdrive, the sound is really very transparent, dynamic. Saturation happens fairly quickly though. All this is very rock.
The second channel, it is raiment in hard rock. It sends more saturation and lower than the first channel ....

There was only one goal with this pedal: volume up, put your fingers on the fretboard, and your ears ...



OVERALL OPINION

I use it for several months. If I could keep only one, it would be this.
on the other hand, do not expect to do with metal. Append him while another pedal to make it!