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Tag: Distortion

Hughes & Kettner Warp Factor

Posted on 16/09/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Hughes & Kettner Warp Factor from early 00’s. The unit here has seen a lot of use before landing in to my collection. There are good reasons for pros and cons and both are weighting more than with usual pedals we see. Since the positive notions are all mostly on the sound,…

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Danelectro CM-1 Metal

Posted on 6/09/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Danelectro CM-1 Metal from Danelectro Cool Cat series. Made in china late 00’s. Another metal distortion. While Dano’s Cool Cat series has pleasing and personal enclosure, most designs seem to be simple rip offs with very little original in them designwise. Currently i’m not sure what this particular unit based on, but…

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Boss ML-2 Metal Core

Posted on 22/08/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Boss ML-2 Metal Core from compact series. Made in taiwan in january 2009. Sure, i was interested in this due to its reputation. This is supposedly the meanest metal distortion there is and i’ve heard good things about it from people who i share a lot of opinions on sounds. So i…

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Boss HM-3 Hyper Metal

Posted on 10/08/201410/08/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Boss HM-3 Hyper Metal from Boss Compact series. Made in taiwan, march 1993. The younger brother of since discontinued HM-2. Similar controls and expectance for similar sounds was high to say at least. This time there is some symmetry on the board design and even those machine like autorouted traces do not…

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Digitech DSB Screamin Blues

Posted on 17/07/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Digitech Screaming Blues Overdrive/Distortion from “D”, or “Distortion” series. Made in china around mid 00’s. When DOD seized to produce the later versions of the famous overdrives like FX50B, their closest successor would be the DOD FX102 Mystic Blues overdrive. When DOD seized to exist, the next step for the design was…

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Marshall GV-2 Guv’nor Plus

Posted on 13/07/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Marshall GV-2 Guv’nor Plus. Made in china around early 00’s. Don’t know if there is any official name for this series of pedals, so i’m calling it “Small metal series”. The original Guv’nor design was a bit of a hit. Not in least due to Gary Moore, who was doing the best…

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Danelectro DJ-13 French Toast Octave Distortion

Posted on 19/06/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Danelectro DJ-13 French Toast Octave Distortion. Made in china around mid 00’s. This one is one of the more classic designs in the series. The internet reveals that the design is 1:1 with a classic fOXX Tone Machine with added standard Dano Mini series electronic bypass switching. In other words, it is…

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Marshall JH-1 The Jackhammer

Posted on 2/06/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Marshall JH-1 Jackhammer Overdrive/Distortion. Made in china in mid 00’s. We’ve seen a few of these units that combine two popular dirt effects – the overdrive and the distortion. So far i haven’t come across an unit that would excel in both. First analogue would be Boss OS-2, which is terrific distortion,…

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Ibanez SS20 Session Man II

Posted on 31/05/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Ibanez SS20 Session Man II Distortion/Delay multi-effect from Power series. Made in japan in mid 80’s. Ok. Apparently the first session man wasn’t a flop enough. Sharing parts of the design with the first Session Man “multi-effect”, this unit pairs a nasty, short delay to what appears to be the same distortion…

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Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal

Posted on 28/05/2014 by mirosol

What is it? Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal distortion. Made in taiwan, early 1988. It has six number serial with leading zero, so that makes the unit one of the very first taiwan made HM-2s If you have not heard anything about this distortion, you must have been living under a rock. It is one of…

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