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Grattouille33 « A good tube scremer! »
Published on 01/03/12 at 12:37It is a tube screamer with more distortion. Two pedals in one, 3 buttons plus a stompswitch for each effect (tone, gain, level).
It's pretty well thought out and is a Vai signature anyway! Done for the stage, buttons / knobs have very bright contours, as it is well known that when the effect is enabled.
Well, after this, it breaks no brick level features is the analog transistor.
Ah, I forgot: the colorful design is still the effect!
UTILIZATION
Config ultra simple, detailed above. It is plug and play, and that's good for me!
Manuel? You mean the page pub where Steve Vai describes its settings on the pedal? That's all there, and there is no real need for manual!
On this point, well we can not do better, so ... 10/10!
SOUND QUALITY
The tube screamer is almost perfect for the use I have, although I think it makes the sound a little too bloated, it lacks some treble once past it, but I think it's adjustment due to my amp (a Mesa / Boogie DC-5) which is not very sharp at the start.
We must know: it is a Vai signature, and he has a guitar that has a very pronounced acute, not me.
But that does not bother me.
In any case, for solo boost, so nearly perfect.
The tube screamer direct its clear the amp, so good. It does not break bricks, it can make the stuffing on the occasion for a little crunch, but ... It's not great!
Distortion ... I do not know what to say, but I wonder how Steve Vai happens to sound like that out of this pedal in the video demonstration ...
I tried everything: live or in several amps in the box directly to the mixer.
It really is the m ** of.
It sounds like a fuzz went wrong: no sustain, too much gain, a bee in his agony, treble horrible, really horrible ... Berk.
In fact, it's a bit like the tube screamer on the clear sound of the amp but much less pleasant.
Well ... Balance therefore very mixed. The note speaks for itself.
OVERALL OPINION
Ben now, it's been almost two years since I use it, and I'm happy as a boost. That's it.
I had not tried other models of tube screamer before, I had not even tried this pedal before, needless to say I was very disappointed ...
However, the super paint "color mixing" of the pedal is great. I love, it's class on the pedalboard.
But if you do not care to have a distortion, if you just want a boost for solos, and if you like green, you know what to do ... Especially since the pedal in question is less expensive than the Jemini.
If I keep it in fact it only for its looks!
So, choose either to look for either a Maxon or Ibanez OD-808.
It's pretty well thought out and is a Vai signature anyway! Done for the stage, buttons / knobs have very bright contours, as it is well known that when the effect is enabled.
Well, after this, it breaks no brick level features is the analog transistor.
Ah, I forgot: the colorful design is still the effect!
UTILIZATION
Config ultra simple, detailed above. It is plug and play, and that's good for me!
Manuel? You mean the page pub where Steve Vai describes its settings on the pedal? That's all there, and there is no real need for manual!
On this point, well we can not do better, so ... 10/10!
SOUND QUALITY
The tube screamer is almost perfect for the use I have, although I think it makes the sound a little too bloated, it lacks some treble once past it, but I think it's adjustment due to my amp (a Mesa / Boogie DC-5) which is not very sharp at the start.
We must know: it is a Vai signature, and he has a guitar that has a very pronounced acute, not me.
But that does not bother me.
In any case, for solo boost, so nearly perfect.
The tube screamer direct its clear the amp, so good. It does not break bricks, it can make the stuffing on the occasion for a little crunch, but ... It's not great!
Distortion ... I do not know what to say, but I wonder how Steve Vai happens to sound like that out of this pedal in the video demonstration ...
I tried everything: live or in several amps in the box directly to the mixer.
It really is the m ** of.
It sounds like a fuzz went wrong: no sustain, too much gain, a bee in his agony, treble horrible, really horrible ... Berk.
In fact, it's a bit like the tube screamer on the clear sound of the amp but much less pleasant.
Well ... Balance therefore very mixed. The note speaks for itself.
OVERALL OPINION
Ben now, it's been almost two years since I use it, and I'm happy as a boost. That's it.
I had not tried other models of tube screamer before, I had not even tried this pedal before, needless to say I was very disappointed ...
However, the super paint "color mixing" of the pedal is great. I love, it's class on the pedalboard.
But if you do not care to have a distortion, if you just want a boost for solos, and if you like green, you know what to do ... Especially since the pedal in question is less expensive than the Jemini.
If I keep it in fact it only for its looks!
So, choose either to look for either a Maxon or Ibanez OD-808.