NPD! Washburn Soloist Distortion

[tunghaichuan***]

I've got one of those, it is a great pedal for $20. As you no doubt know, it is a repackaged/rebadged Artec SE-SLD Soloist Distortion. Does a great cranked plexi imitation. It is well made too, in Korea, IIRC.

I usually set the Level and Tone to about 11 or 12 o'clock, Contour and gain all the way up.

After reading many accolades of this pedal here in this forum, I decided to splurge a whopping $20, and get one for myself. So far I've only tested it through headphones, as it's far too hot in my upstairs music room (converted attic). I like what I'm hearing so far, but I really look forward to hearing it through real speakers.

Here's some gratuitous photos:



The flash photo is pretty washed out, sorry. The color is what I'd call mulberry, which makes me hungry for cobbler.

I guess I have to play around with the tone and contour controls some more, but it seems that the contour is more of a gain contour than a tone contour. I know there are a few of us here that have these; what setting do you like?

[FrankenFretter***]

I've got one of those, it is a great pedal for $20. As you no doubt know, it is a repackaged/rebadged Artec SE-SLD Soloist Distortion. Does a great cranked plexi imitation. It is well made too, in Korea, IIRC.

I usually set the Level and Tone to about 11 or 12 o'clock, Contour and gain all the way up.

That's pretty close to the way I have it set, but I have the Gain and Contour dialed back just a tad. I really need to try this through my Night Train to hear the Quasi-Plexi goodness. I do like it better than my BBE AM64, which is about to be sold.

[bcdon***]

Looks like a great deal! Update us after you put it through the paces. Where did you buy it at?

[FrankenFretter***]

Looks like a great deal! Update us after you put it through the paces. Where did you buy it at?

Ebay, buddy. The best and worst place in the world.