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Jæckel Jæckel
Published on 01/11/06 at 02:31
It's a distortion pedal to 4558 chipset (the one who tripper aficionados of Ibanez 808), red metal strong enough.

The switch seems a little soft knee but it is its design, in reality it is rather hefty (from the inside anyway).

The buttons also seem a little fragile, but this time they are really plastic. That said, for the use that was made (by the other guitarist in my group), without any damage, we can say that it is very strong!

Input and output jack, everything is simple.
A 9V power jack compatible with everything that is done as alim 'pedal.

The battery compartment is easily accessible from below, and there is an additional cavity cleverly designed to accommodate a spare battery (in case).

All this gives a fairly substantial weight, but not exaggerated.

UTILIZATION

Pretty easy to use:
- A volume knob for volume
- The EQ (Bass and Treb) is fairly accurate, I think, but enough to change the sound to taste.
- The button FAB, meanwhile, has a rather questionable usefulness. It appears to boost the sound (gain) in the treble. But I can not tell. Anyway, when I turn in a clockwise direction, it tends to feedback a lot.

I did not have the manual, so I can not judge the intentions of the designers.

SOUND QUALITY

Here we touch the sensitive side of the Corny:
It has a unique sound (as said before), but rather I would apply a style grind, grunge trend noisy. It produces a distortion creaking and tearing, especially with the button FAB increased. It looks like a wasp upset, a big wasp almost black ...
I would compare it to a chain of overdrive (like 5 or 6, one behind the other, with the gain all the way!). it's a pretty special one (I want to say "zzzzzz"), not uninteresting, but it should be tame.
I think she has little "potato", or "punch" (hard to describe) compared to the Big Muff (including bass literally explode) or distortion of a tube amp (which a lot of momentum).
In short, I'm not a fan at all. So bad point.

OVERALL OPINION

I tried to diversify my sound. So compared to a Big Muff (Russian), in my amp (lamps) at a Dod Metal Maniac (bcp's warm), even the distortion of the AdrenaLinn II (amp simulations).
So I do not care (she returned to her owner). I would recommend to a solo guitarist in a style rather dirty and noisy (grunge, punk, etc.).
At first glance, 95euros I would say that is very expensive. I would take maybe if it was my style, for 50 euros.