Now that I've had this pedal for a bit I thought I should tell you about it. Actually, I thought you could probably hear it where ever you are. It's loud.
This is one amazing pedal. What it is is every British tube amp that ever existed in a foot pedal. And that's not all. It is every British tube amp modified and running hot in a foot pedal.
It is a tube driven distortion/amp modeling pedal. It uses 1-12AX7 tube. It is an extremely high gain pedal and is true bypass. Incredibly versatile.
It has 5 knobs and 3 switches. First the knobs (left to right)
Level - Controls over all level of the unit without coloring the tone.
High - Boost or cut 10db @ 4.3kz
Low - Boost or cut 14.5 db @ 100hz
Contour - Adjusts the balance of low and high frequencies in "Notch"
and "Fat" voicing mode. Kind of like the "morph" knob on Digitech
pedals. It really tweaks the sound.
Drive - Adjustsoverall amount of input gain and distortion
3 Switches (left to right)
Top End - Bright +6db @10kh, Flat, Dark +6db @ 3.3kh
Voicing - Notch = passive coloration of lows and highs. Fat = passive
mid range tight filter. Out = no effect
Mid Boost - +7db & 12db @ 360Hz or Out = no effect
Here is what happens when you step on the foot switch to engage the pedal...the universe explodes. Almost. It has so much gain you can almost hear it when it is unplugged (remember Spinal Tap?). I've never experienced such an over the top pedal in my life. Yes it can be tamed. It has very nice clean structure as well as hyper gain smooth shred. And it's quiet. Really.
It will do clean Stevie Ray to gritty Texas mojo to Fuzzy Hendrix to Smooth Satriani. When I roll my guitar volume down I can still hear that amp rolling underneath all hot and warm. It doesn't fizzle out.
The knobs are super wide ranging. Just a small tweak and it changes a lot. Every knob acts this way and with the switches the sound options are as close to infinite as I have ever experienced in any single purpose pedal.
I've only started to use this pedal so I'm not an expert yet. However, the potential is huge. I only have tube amps to run it into so no word from me on how it is with a solid state amp although I'll bet that it sounds good.
If you can find a store that has one check it out. It is one of those pedals that makes you keep playing just because it sounds good and you can't believe it. Well believe it. This pedal ROCKS! Oh, it's expensive too. Suggested retail is $249, but don't worry used they are around half of that. Go figure.
Here is the company web site http://www.tonebone.com/