Tig
January 12th, 2012, 09:24 PM
I've been narrowing down my amp tonal range to either Fender-ish clean/crunch and Marshall crunch/overdriven/wootin' solo tones. While I love the amazing capabilities the POD HD500 is full of, I find that I'm just not using it all that much. It has a great feel with almost every possible amp and effect available, but it is like a 100 room mansion when all I need is a well built 4 room house. So, I traded it for store credit and bought the PlexiTone with most of the value. At over $260, it is a bit pricey, but this pedal delivers at a fraction of the cost of a classic Marshall amp.
I've been playing it for a few days, and it delivers every medium to high gain tone I've been searching for without requiring window rattling volume levels. The touch response is like a tube amp. It delivers all of the classic Van Halen, AC/DC, ZZ Top driven tube tones, yet retains individual string definition. The controls react really well, allowing great control and range.
While I've used it mostly on the Egnater amp, it has worked well on the Fender Mustang set to clean. I read some people didn't like it with single coils, but it works great with my T-style Hell No. 2, the P90's in the Reverend, and the Strat. Playing any neck pickup with the high gain channel gives those sweet, woody harmonic solo tones like Slash had in the GnR days. Roll the guitar's treble down and Clapton's "woman" tone shows up in spades. This is the first pedal that has pulled this off convincingly. This is a keeper, no doubt!
http://static.musiciansfriend.com/derivates/18/001/191/331/DV016_Jpg_Large_153122_V.jpg
"The PlexiTone offers two step overdrive, the crunch channel and the high gain channel, on top of that it gives you an up to 20dB clean boost channel.
The crunch channel goes from subtle overdrive to hard rock gain stage, the high gain channel goes from rock gain stages to absolutely meltdown, with loads of gain and low end, and all in a tone that brings the memory back to the early 80's high gain guitar hero's."
Pete Thorn has a great demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng4peS3MjrY
I've been playing it for a few days, and it delivers every medium to high gain tone I've been searching for without requiring window rattling volume levels. The touch response is like a tube amp. It delivers all of the classic Van Halen, AC/DC, ZZ Top driven tube tones, yet retains individual string definition. The controls react really well, allowing great control and range.
While I've used it mostly on the Egnater amp, it has worked well on the Fender Mustang set to clean. I read some people didn't like it with single coils, but it works great with my T-style Hell No. 2, the P90's in the Reverend, and the Strat. Playing any neck pickup with the high gain channel gives those sweet, woody harmonic solo tones like Slash had in the GnR days. Roll the guitar's treble down and Clapton's "woman" tone shows up in spades. This is the first pedal that has pulled this off convincingly. This is a keeper, no doubt!
http://static.musiciansfriend.com/derivates/18/001/191/331/DV016_Jpg_Large_153122_V.jpg
"The PlexiTone offers two step overdrive, the crunch channel and the high gain channel, on top of that it gives you an up to 20dB clean boost channel.
The crunch channel goes from subtle overdrive to hard rock gain stage, the high gain channel goes from rock gain stages to absolutely meltdown, with loads of gain and low end, and all in a tone that brings the memory back to the early 80's high gain guitar hero's."
Pete Thorn has a great demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng4peS3MjrY