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UNCLE ERNIE'S EFFECTS LIVEDRIVER.
The design of this pedal is unique in that it is actually two pedals in one box, a
simple and also brutal Boost and a Hard Clipping Distortion.
The Boost although very simple is also very useful and effective. It can give
a clean slight boost up to a loud distorted sound. The Boost features a Bright
switch that turns the Boost into a Treble Booster. With the Bright off the
Boost has a flat tonal response.
The Distortion is a Hard Clipping single stage distortion with a flat tonal
response. It's very simple in design and use and is most effective when used
for hard rock and metal. This is great in front of a higher gain tube amp, i.e.
Marshall. If you want that 80's distortion sound it's in here. For the modern
metal sound then the pedal will hammer your amp and being a flat response
allow your amp to handle the tone and not have a stacked EQ thing going on.
Sometimes simple is best.
The two circuits combine in such a way that the Boost doesn't stack loud on
distortion but rather a push over the edge without too much increase in
unpleasant stacked distortion. If this was designed to be loud on distortion
then the end result would end up sounding horrendous. The upper order
harmonics would introduce too much noise and lower note clarity.
The LiveDriver is a
straight forward and highly effective design that allows the amp to be part of
the sound and not just the thing that drives the speakers. Other Metal pedals
are really more of a preamp that defines the whole sound and don't make
much use of the amps sound. These pedals are effective with a smaller
solid-state amp but you don't pay $1500 for a Marshall or Boogie head to
have your sound determined by a $80 Chinese made stomp box.
5 Year Manufacturers Warranty
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