Studio compressors make everything sound, well…better, right? For years, we all have been on the prowl for a way to harness that key recording ingredient into our live rigs, without having it affect our original signal too much, and one of the answers has just come our way. The Lamplighter Optical Compressor from Greer Amps takes that classic studio sound and brings it front and center to your pedalboard. Volume and Compression...
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What can you say about Greer Amps? Nick and the gang just keep putting out incredible pedal ofter pedal (among other things), consistently topping their previous endeavor somehow. Today’s pedal continues on where their famed Southland Overdrive left off, bumping up that great tone into the realm of a true high-gain overdrive/distortion pedal, but keeping with the same smoothness and crispiness that their pedals are all known...
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There are a lot of “Screamer” pedals out in the world, being manufactured by a ton of different companies, and rightly so, as it was one of the first truly awesome overdrive pedals in existence. However, with so many floating around, it’s sometimes hard to decipher which one is from where, as they can tend to all start to sound fairly similar. Enter today’s pedal, the Relic Drive from our friends at Greer Amp...
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Sometimes, it’s hard to come up with a ton of words to describe a pedal and how it sounds, or makes you feel, or brings an immediate smile to your face. That said, I’ll try to do my best to try and describe the Hammer Distortion Fuzz from Greer Amps. Another in our recent lineup of 3-knob pedals, this one has got gusto, oomph and rock and roll ensconced into its DNA, and that is evident after you turn it on and hit the...
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There are certain times in every effect freak’s life, when you sit down with a pedal, any type of pedal, really, and once you hit that bypass switch, your ears, eyes and fingers instantly perk up, and your brain sort of says “Whoa!”, maybe even with a little Keanu Reeves overtone. Now, while there are many, many brilliant pedals out there to explore, as we know, there are those rare gems that just have IT, whatever...
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Nick and the crew at Greer Amps have been putting out some incredible dirt pedals over the last few years, but with today’s pedal, they’re veered a bit off course into the world of delay, which I (and other fans of theirs) couldn’t be happier about. The Black Tiger Delay Device is a relatively simple delay, but has great tone, like all Greer pedals, and provides the perfect amount of tone-enhancement to make your rig...
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As you may or may not have figured out by now, we here at Pedal of the Day are BIG fans of Nick and Greer Amps, and love it when a new pedal of theirs shows up on the doorstep. Today’s pedal seems to have flown a bit under the radar, as you can’t even purchase it on their website (I had to search to find this one used), which makes it all the more interesting: today’s gem of a pedal is the Peacemaker Dual Class A...
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I review a LOT of overdrive pedals. A LOT. While the majority of them sound awesome, once in a while I will plug one in and it blows me away right from the get-go, one that I immediately say to myself, “You have to find room for this on one of your pedalboards NOW.” One of these pedals is the Sucker Punch Distortion from Greer Amps, so let’s check it out! As soon as you unleash this thing onto your favorite amp of...
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A boost pedal is usually just that: a Boost pedal. Granted, while they do enhance your tone and give you amp a little kick where it needs one, mainly they just Boost, Boost, Boost. They can get your tone to that “just about break-up amp” sound, but what if you wanted (or needed) just a little bit more? Well, my buddy Nick and his cohorts over at Greer Amps decided that enough was enough, and they created a sort of hybrid...
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I love a good compressor, and while some I’ve tried in the past haven’t blown me away, and some didn’t really even do too much to my signal, less is more when it comes to compression, and that’s the name of the game with the Fish Press from our friends at Greer Amps. Your basic two-knob layout for the controls makes this pedal none-too-difficult to dial in. Based on the vintage Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer,...
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The Lightspeed Organic Overdrive from Greer Amps has been everywhere around the guitar community for the last year or so, and I had to see what the deal was with this pristine-looking (and, as it turns out, sounding) effects pedal from good old Athens, Georgia. I’ve been looking for a kind of Boost / Light Drive to push my signal a little bit up front, and it seemed like this just might be a perfect fit. There’s no Physics...
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I got a surprise package in the mail the other day from Nick over at Greer Amps: the yet-to-be-released Southland Harmonic Overdrive, their newest killer pedal creation. I’d seen the pictures on Instagram and was excited to test this baby out, knowing it was gonna rock after previously testing out a couple of other Greer pedals. Well, let’s just say it did rock…and then it rocked some more! The Southland was...
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The first pedal I heard from Greer Amps was the Burning Goat Overdrive; after that, I knew I had to hear more. Which brings us to this little black beauty: the Tone Smuggler. A jack-of-all-trades overdrive pedal, this guy will excite, perplex and complicate you and your guitar tone, and you wouldn’t want it any other way. Simple, 3-knob control design is great: sometimes, the less to think about, the better. Unfortunately,...
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The search is over…well, that’s not entirely true. As we all know, the search for the ultimate overdrive is never COMPLETELY over, but I may have just gotten one step closer. In a world littered with Klones and Transparency, Greer Amps presents us with a warm, punchy, overdrive-sounding overdrive pedal. Really, it sounds like an overdrive! I’m not joking! The Burning Goat is not full of bells and whistles – in...
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