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*I did not get any money from anyone for this post. I am not trying to promote a product or a brand.*
So I visited my friend and also her dad on Christmas like I do every year. He is an amazing player, and has a small collection of amps, reverb tanks, guitars and pedals. He usually plays acoustic guitars.
He asked me what I like. I told him I like most kinds of music. However, I don't like anything with too much gain. We browsed through his rack of pedals, and he let me borrow "Menatone: The king". He said I could keep it upto new year's eve. He did make me send a pic of my (single port) power adapter before I used it to power this pedal at my home. He also warned me not to daisy chain this pedal with any other pedal.
I play a hardtail strat with HSS pickups. My amp is a small 5 watt supro.
I have set my amp clean-ish. With some advice from him, I have set the pedal to Vintage/ 60s setting. When I activate the pedal, it feels almost as if I am playing through a real (moderate gain) amp and not a pedal. It is reacting dynamically to my picking. I have set the High's at 9'o clock, Mids at 8'o clock and Lows at 4'o clock. I specially like the lows.
However, if I turn the drive knob past 1'o clock I am losing articulation. I never use so much gain, so it's not an issue for me. I had a talk regarding this with him over a phone call, and he told me that it may sound better if powered by a better, although expensive power supply like the one he has (cloks, if I remember right).
It has dip switches on the inside to "match" it to your amp. It's an expensive and borrowed pedal, and I am scared of damaging it. So I am not gonna open and match it to my amp, before returning it. It is an honor to play such a pedal.
I had thought of uploading audio samples, but I use a crappy old phone. This pedal deserves to be recorded through a good interface/ microphone which unfortunately I don't have. Pic is from their website.
Thanks
Brianna
So I visited my friend and also her dad on Christmas like I do every year. He is an amazing player, and has a small collection of amps, reverb tanks, guitars and pedals. He usually plays acoustic guitars.
He asked me what I like. I told him I like most kinds of music. However, I don't like anything with too much gain. We browsed through his rack of pedals, and he let me borrow "Menatone: The king". He said I could keep it upto new year's eve. He did make me send a pic of my (single port) power adapter before I used it to power this pedal at my home. He also warned me not to daisy chain this pedal with any other pedal.
I play a hardtail strat with HSS pickups. My amp is a small 5 watt supro.
I have set my amp clean-ish. With some advice from him, I have set the pedal to Vintage/ 60s setting. When I activate the pedal, it feels almost as if I am playing through a real (moderate gain) amp and not a pedal. It is reacting dynamically to my picking. I have set the High's at 9'o clock, Mids at 8'o clock and Lows at 4'o clock. I specially like the lows.
However, if I turn the drive knob past 1'o clock I am losing articulation. I never use so much gain, so it's not an issue for me. I had a talk regarding this with him over a phone call, and he told me that it may sound better if powered by a better, although expensive power supply like the one he has (cloks, if I remember right).
It has dip switches on the inside to "match" it to your amp. It's an expensive and borrowed pedal, and I am scared of damaging it. So I am not gonna open and match it to my amp, before returning it. It is an honor to play such a pedal.
I had thought of uploading audio samples, but I use a crappy old phone. This pedal deserves to be recorded through a good interface/ microphone which unfortunately I don't have. Pic is from their website.
Thanks
Brianna
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