Mario Marino has been creating products under the name Axess Electronics since 1998, crafting custom buffered splitters, routers, switchers MIDI foot controllers and more, for names like Alex Lifeson, Peter Frampton, Richie Sambora, John Petrucci, Dweezil Zappa and Eddie Van Halen. Bringing decades of expertise to the effects pedal world, he has released the AXSGTR OBViouS™ Boost/Overdrive, an option-filled beauty that dirties up your clean amp and pushes your dirty amp to the edge.
The OBViouS™ Boost/Overdrive is a transparent and straightforward, lower gain pedal meant to push an already overdriven tube amplifier. The pedal’s stimulus was the beloved Marshall® JMP plexi and 1987/X family of amplifiers, which when pushed, benefit greatly from the design’s ability to sculpt and fine-tune, tightened and tailored, bass and treble frequencies for a hot-rodded transparent response.
Even though the pedal impetus was a certain family of amps, the OBViouS™ Boost/Overdrive can be used to push other tube amplifiers, with equally great results. When pushing most tube amplifiers, including a beloved Marshall®, more than a single “boost control” is a great asset because human hearing is highly nonlinear, and guitar amplifiers are only slightly better in their linearity. In addition to the pedal’s obvious ability to garner transparent tones, it can also be used to drive your sound to the edge via its Gain knob and three position clip toggle switch.
It isn’t too often that we make an almost 9 minute demo video for an overdrive pedal, but in the case of the OBViouS™ Boost/Overdrive, it was an absolute necessity. This is one of those pedals that really is hard to stop playing once you turn it on and crank it up, and we can’t wait to feature it in other demo videos in the future. Hats off to Mario and Axess Electronics | AXSGTR on a remarkable, gorgeous-sounding effect – if this is just the first pedal he’s released, the future looks bright, and we are looking forward to more pedals soon. Be sure to visit the Axess website for more info on the OBViouS, as well as the rest of their product lineup. First, though, you should head to YouTube and see/hear just what this pedal is capable of…cheers!
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