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September 13th, 2010, 09:15 AM
Having had great experience with the Biyang Analog Delay I got me an ODT-100 tube drive unit of theirs...got it today.
I have only played it with the Vox AD30VT for 20 minutes or something, but here's the rundown:
- Damned big, hogs pedalboard room
- Comes with it's own (6V) power supply, they weigh like 4 pounds together.
This unit has more gain than I ever expected. LOTS of gain. Even on 12 o'clock it's already past Metallica territory, at least with my EMG's. On top of clean AD30 (Boutique clean) the sound isn't anything particular; I could easily get a very similar sound to vox's own AC30 model, but it's debatable if I could even get as good a sound as the model. Straight EQ it is a bit middy and a bit too bright-sounding.
On harder drive sounds, though, this can certainly make the AD30 a real shred machine and yield total metal sounds with ease, which is something I haven't really gotten with it before.
It seems to me the unit doesn't really much color the basic sound as is, or have a 'voice' of it's own like a TS pedal or something, it just adds ample amounts of tube gain, and over a clean amp, doesn't do wonders.
Then I tried it over a dirty rhythm sound for lead boost and NOW I was smiling...it does a HELLUVA job kicking that rhythm crunch into marvellous singing thick yet aggressively screaming lead drive sound. I set the gain at around 1/4 and treble pretty much to zero and even then added some bass and that sound truly rocks for screaming leads.
So to sum it all - can't wait to test it with my Ceriatone, if it works anything like with the Vox, it'll work superbly for lead boost/drive.
Seems to me the unit is a very good distortion pedal for very thick saturated metal sounds, or as a booster to give an already slightly driven sound a definite tube scream on top.
Seems promising!
I have only played it with the Vox AD30VT for 20 minutes or something, but here's the rundown:
- Damned big, hogs pedalboard room
- Comes with it's own (6V) power supply, they weigh like 4 pounds together.
This unit has more gain than I ever expected. LOTS of gain. Even on 12 o'clock it's already past Metallica territory, at least with my EMG's. On top of clean AD30 (Boutique clean) the sound isn't anything particular; I could easily get a very similar sound to vox's own AC30 model, but it's debatable if I could even get as good a sound as the model. Straight EQ it is a bit middy and a bit too bright-sounding.
On harder drive sounds, though, this can certainly make the AD30 a real shred machine and yield total metal sounds with ease, which is something I haven't really gotten with it before.
It seems to me the unit doesn't really much color the basic sound as is, or have a 'voice' of it's own like a TS pedal or something, it just adds ample amounts of tube gain, and over a clean amp, doesn't do wonders.
Then I tried it over a dirty rhythm sound for lead boost and NOW I was smiling...it does a HELLUVA job kicking that rhythm crunch into marvellous singing thick yet aggressively screaming lead drive sound. I set the gain at around 1/4 and treble pretty much to zero and even then added some bass and that sound truly rocks for screaming leads.
So to sum it all - can't wait to test it with my Ceriatone, if it works anything like with the Vox, it'll work superbly for lead boost/drive.
Seems to me the unit is a very good distortion pedal for very thick saturated metal sounds, or as a booster to give an already slightly driven sound a definite tube scream on top.
Seems promising!