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Published on 09/23/14 at 06:28Copy / paste Benrod site:
- 4 settings: GAIN, VOLUME, CREAM CUT
- 1 guitar input INPUT
- 1 amp output OUTPUT
- True Bypass
- Internal Wiring with cable MOGAMI
- Powered by 9V battery (Duracell ProCell included) or AC adapter type 'BOSS®'
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OVERALL OPINION
So my opinion is a bit special, because this pedal is very very well made (no doubt about it) but compared to my Mojo JTM with which I wished the couple, it was just very, very blah.
Let me explain this pedal tested alone (and especially before Mojo JTM) has all the qualities of a boutique pedal: quality cabling, switch knobs and top, true bypass, and excellent sound with setting options very interesting with the famous Cream and Cut. The tonal palette is wide enough, it will sound an almost clean to overdrive that allows you to tease an AC / DC or Aerosmith without any worry, but it is not a distortion, it's still an overdrive. It was something in the clear saturation in the sense that every note arpeggio even doing very well, no sound to mush. The "Cream" as the name suggests will add a creamy side to her, there will be bass and lower midrange a little firmer in pushing the knob to right.The "Cut" for his acts on the highs and wired backwards, I mean, the more you shoot, the more high frequencies are cut. Coupled with the Cream you get to things nice and very diverse. The volume of the pedal against disappointed me because we still have to push almost two thirds to three quarters or to have the same volume when the pedal is bypassed.
It remains, however, in an area that goes from blues to rock, AC / DC style Foo Fighters, Jack White ... But the big task that will require elsewhere. So overall very good pedal with the shop that everyone has in mind mind.
Now to comparo with Mojo JTM because the goal was to make them play together on certain sounds:
Well slap, the Mojo literally burying the Benrod. Already, the reserve volume is really consistent eten addition, JTM sounds "big", not genre heavy distortion, but really big sound even at low gain, it seems a really thrown forward with its bottom and the lower midrange as it is not permissible to give a monster magnitude signal, a fabulous grain compresses only the fifth in the last race of the drive. So it sounds airy, open, close, it takes its place in a mix. What really awesome. At the same time, the only thing you can really blame the pedals Tom (NOS in Paris), it may be the peeling paint too quickly ^^.
So my Cream Can in all this, bah when I passed it after the comparison test with the JTM, well ..... the sound seemed anemic, small, feeble, I really want more of the plug; and even by coupling it eats dynamics Mojo whether before or after the chaining, it adds a gain that will compress its there or Mojo let the sound breathe and the knob Cream Cut and make gadget blow. Because the tone of the Mojo, barely turned really is and does not pretend. I'm a bit radical but it's really the feeling that I had. And it was strange for a pedal 150 new bullets. I think she is nevertheless because the build quality is to go, and the sound itself is very good, it's just that I had better before I think; I really like the texture of my JTM, and in the end I took a 2nd Mojo that this one will, fits really well with the first.
Note that I tested these two pedals on my Laney L5T-112, so the basis of the clean sound is still downright good.
So Benrod I certainly retesterai still occasionally out of curiosity, hoping that other commodities will further convince me. In the end, I sold it.
NB: sorry for this review pretty special, but I was forced to give my opinion also on a 2nd pedal to illuster weaknesses of Benrod. So we have a little 2 reviews in one.
- 4 settings: GAIN, VOLUME, CREAM CUT
- 1 guitar input INPUT
- 1 amp output OUTPUT
- True Bypass
- Internal Wiring with cable MOGAMI
- Powered by 9V battery (Duracell ProCell included) or AC adapter type 'BOSS®'
UTILIZATION
See global opinion
SOUND QUALITY
See global opinion
OVERALL OPINION
So my opinion is a bit special, because this pedal is very very well made (no doubt about it) but compared to my Mojo JTM with which I wished the couple, it was just very, very blah.
Let me explain this pedal tested alone (and especially before Mojo JTM) has all the qualities of a boutique pedal: quality cabling, switch knobs and top, true bypass, and excellent sound with setting options very interesting with the famous Cream and Cut. The tonal palette is wide enough, it will sound an almost clean to overdrive that allows you to tease an AC / DC or Aerosmith without any worry, but it is not a distortion, it's still an overdrive. It was something in the clear saturation in the sense that every note arpeggio even doing very well, no sound to mush. The "Cream" as the name suggests will add a creamy side to her, there will be bass and lower midrange a little firmer in pushing the knob to right.The "Cut" for his acts on the highs and wired backwards, I mean, the more you shoot, the more high frequencies are cut. Coupled with the Cream you get to things nice and very diverse. The volume of the pedal against disappointed me because we still have to push almost two thirds to three quarters or to have the same volume when the pedal is bypassed.
It remains, however, in an area that goes from blues to rock, AC / DC style Foo Fighters, Jack White ... But the big task that will require elsewhere. So overall very good pedal with the shop that everyone has in mind mind.
Now to comparo with Mojo JTM because the goal was to make them play together on certain sounds:
Well slap, the Mojo literally burying the Benrod. Already, the reserve volume is really consistent eten addition, JTM sounds "big", not genre heavy distortion, but really big sound even at low gain, it seems a really thrown forward with its bottom and the lower midrange as it is not permissible to give a monster magnitude signal, a fabulous grain compresses only the fifth in the last race of the drive. So it sounds airy, open, close, it takes its place in a mix. What really awesome. At the same time, the only thing you can really blame the pedals Tom (NOS in Paris), it may be the peeling paint too quickly ^^.
So my Cream Can in all this, bah when I passed it after the comparison test with the JTM, well ..... the sound seemed anemic, small, feeble, I really want more of the plug; and even by coupling it eats dynamics Mojo whether before or after the chaining, it adds a gain that will compress its there or Mojo let the sound breathe and the knob Cream Cut and make gadget blow. Because the tone of the Mojo, barely turned really is and does not pretend. I'm a bit radical but it's really the feeling that I had. And it was strange for a pedal 150 new bullets. I think she is nevertheless because the build quality is to go, and the sound itself is very good, it's just that I had better before I think; I really like the texture of my JTM, and in the end I took a 2nd Mojo that this one will, fits really well with the first.
Note that I tested these two pedals on my Laney L5T-112, so the basis of the clean sound is still downright good.
So Benrod I certainly retesterai still occasionally out of curiosity, hoping that other commodities will further convince me. In the end, I sold it.
NB: sorry for this review pretty special, but I was forced to give my opinion also on a 2nd pedal to illuster weaknesses of Benrod. So we have a little 2 reviews in one.