You’d think that the only thing that matters with guitar pedals is how they sound. And that definitely is one of the most critical elements — but other factors matter, too. User experience (that relates to how the knobs and jacks are laid out and labeled) and expectation-setting (marketing, naming, pricing) play big roles in…
$100 doesn’t get you far in boutique guitar pedals usually. So when I first learned about VHT V-Drive, I was intrigued — here’s a smaller, more “boutique” brand with an overdrive pedal in $100 range. I realize that VHT isn’t quite a household name in pedals, and in fact, I was under the impression that…
“Smooth yet articulate’ is a description I’d like to hear about overdrives, because it is my ideal yet seems rather hard to achieve. To be articulate there must be a healthy dose of treble content, but it’s so easy to end up sounding harsh or strident. I became rather interested in Rockett Allan Holdsworth Overdrive…
A couple of years ago I was in surfing through the overdrive pedal section of eBay and came across this pedal from Thiland-based one-man brand NX Generation (it appears to be that way, anyway). I looked it up and Narin, the man behind the pedal, posted good demos of this pedal. Warm Drive! Indeed, I…