Members gambit Posted October 17, 2012 Members Share Posted October 17, 2012 that's what it says on the box. modelled on a Mesa Boogie MK II. never heard one/who cares i was looking to replace a Dano Drive v1 as a big open drive with some low end even at low gain settings. and it does that just perfectly!oh yeah, it's one of these cheap Joyo's:..my first Joyo, but the EQ is excellent. the gain structure is really nice on low gain settings. i find myself keeping the voice control nearly all the way down for 'transparent' ( ) open, jangly stuff. it adds gain and low-mids as you turn it up, so unless i want a high-gain distortion that knob will stay near-zero.so with the voice knob turned down, the gain knob covers clean-boost up to mild overdrive ( around 3/4's ), and that last 1/4 turn up to decently distorted. i tried it with my Squier VMJM, Mascis JM and Jagmaster with WRHP's. the humbuckers sounded better with the higher gain stuff. with the Jazzmasters going from bypassed to pedal-on, the low gain sounds were easily matched with the bypass signal, making it really simple to just add a light touch of overdrive to the sound without adding any excessive tonal re-shaping.so i'm using it as a low gain overdrive for a lovely transparent jangly overdrive with a bit more bass to add some spank.the bad points?:- the knobs are too close to the switch which is already starting to get on my nerves. - how long will it last?- the volume knob is at unity about 1/4.- it would be really nice to have a 2nd switch so it can be used as a 2-channel pedal.but for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wulver Posted October 17, 2012 Members Share Posted October 17, 2012 If I'm correct, it's a clone of one of these. So the sound is all there, at that price? Hell, I might need to track one of them down, especially since Tech 21 doesn't make the California anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PKTrono Posted October 22, 2012 Members Share Posted October 22, 2012 dig it. i was looking at one of these but the lack of speaker emulation makes it not so great. i guess there's always IRs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cirrus Posted October 22, 2012 Members Share Posted October 22, 2012 Yeah these are great sounding pedals. It's funny, for the price you almost don't want to believe they could be good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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