Log in
Log in

or
Create an account

or
< All Effectrode Blackbird reviews
Add this product to
  • My former gear
  • My current gear
  • My wishlist
Effectrode Blackbird
Images
1/140
Effectrode Blackbird

Tube Guitar Preamp from Effectrode

Public price: $469 incl. VAT
jamasess jamasess

«  great versatility and great sound! »

Published on 05/12/14 at 01:43
analoge and lamp premium 12AX7/ECC83

Rack not there is a pedal

it is a preamp can also pedal

Taken: 1 In & 2out
- In & Out Classic

- Ball out 600 ohms it comes to the story of an emulated output on the basis of Hp Jensen C12N that can be connected to a sound card, mixing console or power amp or a combo input power in) and can also use headphone jack

- Switch jack (footswitch between blue and red channel)

2 changeover to rear
1 to manually switch the blue and red channel
1 to adjust the bias if relamping

yellow channel (clean) with its real Blackface
blue channel (creamy) >>> overdrive
red channel (classic) >>> <slight distortion to big hairy distortion

settings are highly interactive

3 channels:
1) clean channel (yellow) has knobs as volume / bass / mid / treble >>> his "Fender blackface" type
2) overdrive channel (blue) >>> Classic appointed its type "Dumble"
3) distortion channel (red) >>> named Creamy its type "Soldano"

Actually forms clipping are different or even opposing between channel 2 & 3
channel 2 generates signals type symmetric & asymmetric type 3

The only symmetrical type is used in Effectrode Tube Drive, there were 2 kinds

class A & Construction hyper serious Omeg pots with a lifetime warranty and audiophiles among other components of the short tip top!

UTILIZATION

yes and no

Tones bass / mid / treble is very effective and has many variations and noise made different interacting between them.
It is generally very flexible with good flexibility.

The manual is descriptive enough technically a little less practical question

No editing or presets, turn and it is

SOUND QUALITY

with each stratum was truly Blackface sound and groove of a tube amp itself connected to a simple and modest amp transistor types fm212 both sustain that tone!

Little tip for optimization, iya 2 Out so much to use, and do 2 sets!

To clean, I prefer to use the output BALOUT

For ovdrv and distortion I prefer to use the simple output Out

In clean (yellow) with BALOUT is aa magical musical incredibly soft side of Blackface in all its glory (our friend David Gilmour connected to the mixing console and it undoubtedly has its reasons)

In overdvr / Disto blue / red), I prefer the simple OUt output that provides a sound with lots of sustain and grain (a behavior of a real amp lamp)
I like a little less output BALOUT more mid, which brings more clean

Our friend Bred Kingman on You Tube plugs priori these two ways, and the efficiency is there, and these two modes are simply outstanding and highly complementary

certainly transparent in terms of color I think it is a little characteristic of preamp and amp guitar shape sounds, it is not in stereo, but heck with what musicality!

OVERALL OPINION

4 months

yes, I tried the drive tube Effectrode which was not bad, but being a single pedal with fewer opportunities only 1 channel and 2 positions boost / tone, the blackbird bcp provides more versatility for the same price



The drive tube (I had briefly test) provides a more polished sound full, and if you want the more biting or snarling Bb is awesome and goes much further limit hard rock

I would have loved a box (not for congestion bp) more hair, with good hands the gain knob is a bit isolated.

THE R / P / Q is correspondingly very good considering the versatility of scope ETDE all its features with excellent sound approach.

Already the only clean channel worth seeing and worth the investment compared if only buying a twin reverb!