KMA Machines Logan Transcend Drive

We’ve had a working relationship with KMA Machines for close to a decade now, and have always loved the creativity and option-laden effects pedals they’ve produced over the years. Today, we’re checking out their Logan Transcend Drive, an overdrive pedal that will add immense tonal dimension and flexibility to anyone’s setup, all while preserving the natural characteristic and feel of your beloved instrument. Take a walk in the gritty dirt and breathe in the crystal-clear mountain air, exactly as Logan once did on his journey to glean the beauties of both nature and mankind…

Logan’s gain structure is carefully balanced for an open and super touch-responsive drive tone, giving you and your instrument ample room to be expressive. You could describe its sound as smooth and harmonically rich, but that would be selling it short. There’s a true fire raging under the embers here, one that allows you add more hair, grit and sizzling depth as you pile on the gain, making Logan fit for anything from clean boost, amp-like breakup, indie clang to full-on rock machine. It also sports an impressively high-headroom-design (up to 25 dB), enabling you to use Logan as a very versatile pre-amp too – all of you amp-less/cab-sim players can thank us later.

But what truly pushes Logan over the edge is its 3-band active EQ. The Bass and Treble EQ knobs are able to both boost or cut your signal by around 15 dB. This enables you to beef up thin-sounding single coils, add some chime to chunky humbuckers or get rid of boomy bass frequencies, when changing from a sweet 2×12 to a fat 4×12 cabinet. In addition, the tonal flexibility is even further extended by Logan’s fully parametric Mid-EQ section, where the MID control lets you set your preferred mid frequency between 100 Hz to 2.5 kHz, while the CUT/BOOST control lets you cut or boost the selected frequency by up to 12 dB.

But the frequency fest doesn’t stop there. Logan even sports a dedicated footswitch to activate or deactivate the Mid-EQ and a position-switch which lets you place it either before the main gain-stage (PRE) or after it (POST), opening up a whole world of tonal possibilities. Place the Mid-EQ post-gain to give yourself a level boost for solos or place it pre-gain to saturate your preferred frequency even more, effectively giving you a second gain-stage.

In the demo video below, we put the Logan Transcend Drive through the paces, exploring every sonic crevice and crease we can find, as well as bringing some dirty funk with an Expression pedal on the mids. This versatile overdrive pedal offers something for everyone, bringing a new flavor and attitude to pedalboards across the globe. We love the lineup of effects from KMA Machines – if you haven’t checked them out, be sure to head over to their website…just as soon as you finish watching the demo video, of course. Cheers!!

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