For the electric guitar elite looking to drop close to a grand on an overdrive, there’s the Mezzabarba Even Drive, hailing from a country that specializes in spending temptations: Italy.
An all-tube preamp the Even uses two 12AX7 tubes to faithfully reproduce the sound of the company’s own and renown MZero Tube Amp, a very dynamic and flexible guitar amplifier.
While the controls are extremely straightforward with Level, Tone and Gain knobs, an unassuming toggle switch gives you two voicing options:
- Mode 1 – Overdrive: offers a more focused tone with improved dynamics and sustain thanks to the natural tube compression – perfect for Pop, Blues and Classic Rock.
- Mode 2 – Distortion: a more edgy, aggressive, and therefore compressed sound perfect for more modern, aggressive rock genres, including metal. It produces a tight distortion dripping in harmonics.
The Even Drive also features an innovative true bypass switching system based on gold plated relays, to preserve all the frequencies when in bypass
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