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Posts tagged "high gain"

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Airis Effects Savage Drive V5

Extreme tone lovers should give the Airis Effects Savage Drive a try - it's presented by the Canadian builder as "the most aggressive overdrive out there"!!... Click on the title for more

Airis Effects Savage Drive V5

Pedal to the Metal: Keeley Filaments

filaments New releases by Keeley Electronics always tickle the wallet of many pedal aficionados, and we are detecting a certain amount of buzz for the company's new high gain distortion about to drop in stores, called Filaments. Maybe because the stompbox in question doesn't have one, nor two, but THREE stages of gain, which, in our book, is even better than an amp with the volume going to 11! ... Click on the title for more

Pedal to the Metal: Keeley Filaments

Featured pedals: Severe by Tone Freak Effects

Severe_Award[1] One of the newer companies on the guitar pedal scene, Tone Freak Effects specializes in stompboxes familiar in design, with a few special tweaks for added versatility. We were intrigued by one of their older models, called Severe, a meaty medium-to-severely-high gain pedal with tones reminiscent of some of the most notorious high gain amplifiers in the world. The standard 3 knob (Gain, Tone, and Level) overdrive taken up a notch, there is a toggle switch that allows for different clipping options – symmetrical, asymmetrical, and no clipping – as well as a bright switch that affects high frequencies on the Tone control. Severe produces a more dynamic sort of overdriven tone, and unlike many other pedals with this much gain on tap it never moves into that heavily-compressed, “rectified” sound. It plays nice with amplifiers of all types and is very well made, equally at home as a rhythm or lead sound. – Brandon Stoner ... Click on the title for more

Featured pedals: Severe by Tone Freak Effects