Overall Rating: Wow, I get to be the first one to review this pedal! I'll be truly interested to hear what others have to say. I play in a worship band at a very large church. The styles in a given set range from slow old school to r&b to fairly shre...
Overall Rating: Wow, I get to be the first one to review this pedal! I'll be truly interested to hear what others have to say. I play in a worship band at a very large church. The styles in a given set range from slow old school to r&b to fairly shredder new style stuff. I have been playing for about 25 years and don't have much time to mess around or practice these days so I rely on a tasteful tone and the "less is more" theory when competing with the kids. I'd have to say that after years of fiddling with different pedals, amps and guitars I have settled on the basics and simplicity. The Visual sound pedals with my strat and blackface amp "just work" and have the tone that I have always been after. Bob Weil and the Visual Sound folks seem to have a knack for getting it right and listening to their players. This is my first day with the new pedal and so I will come back and update, but so far I love it.
Sound Quality: I have been playing the Visual Sound pedals for the last several years. I currently play a custom shop Fender strat through a 65 Deluxe reissue amp. I initially fell in love with the Route 66 pedal when it first came out after struggling to find tone nirvana modding my tube screamers. I eventually wound up with a Route 66 and a Jekyll & Hyde on my board but typically used the Jekyll side in combination with the Route 66. The two together made my strat come alive... add a touch of delay from the analog qualities of the H20 pedal and magic happens. I couldn't wait to get my hands on the Double Trouble as it combines my two pedal worlds in to one and I was able to clean up the pedal board a bit. They also added a noise suppressor circuit, which has cleaned up the only other issue with the other two old pedals combined. I pulled the Route 66 and J&H pedals off my board today when the Double Trouble arrived and put it in place. It sounds dead on like the old TS808 pedals... but with a base boost. I have only had the pedal for a day, but so far I got a sweet sound right from the start and then after about 20 minutes of toying with the two pedals in combination I found a tone that suits me well... sort of Clapton meets SRV. The pedal with my texas special single coils is very responsive to slight volume adjustments on the guitar and pick attack. The Double Trouble seems very transparent.
Reliability/Durability: I have only ever experienced one problem with a pedal from Visual Sound and had to call support. They connected me directly with Bob, the owner of the company and he walked me through the issue and send a replacement part immediately. The pedals are build like tanks and I gig without a backup... although every one of my musician buddies that tries my pedal board runs out to buy their pedals and so If I had a failure I could borrow a pedal for the weekend.
Ease of Use: It's easy to get a good sound out of this pedal. It's basically 3 knobs on each channel and bass boost for each channel. There are also options available if you want to open the pedal up and changed the noise gate settings. I power the pedal off my pedal board supply, but one of the nice changes in the new V2 series of the Visual Sound pedals is a new battery compartment that is easier to access. The pedal is also about 10-20 percent smaller than the last version of their pedals which helped tidy up the pedal board a bit.
Customer Support: I have only ever experienced one problem with a pedal from Visual Sound and had to call support. They connected me directly with Bob, the owner of the company and he walked me through the issue and send a replacement part immediately.
Purchased From: Tunnelvision Music
Price: $170.00 USD
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