Welcome to our second installment here during “Fly Boys Week”! Today’s pedal from Totally Wycked Audio is the FB-02 Overdrive, and boasts hints of a classic overdrive pedal, the TS-808 from Ibanez. Featuring two unique gain stage settings and a heaping of gain on tap, this little pedal speaks big volumes. Tone, Level and Gain knobs make up the first part of the pedal’s controls, much like the FB-01 Distortion...
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And we’re off with the first installment of “Fly Boys Week” here at Pedal of the Day! For the next 5 days, we’ll be taking a look at the Fly Boys series of pedals from Totally Wycked Audio, and seeing how these mini pedals can help to shape your tone while saving lots of space, too. The first pedal in this series has big sound for a small pedal: the FB-01 Distortion. While the controls are not vast by any means...
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Rarely am I at an immediate loss for words when plugging in a new pedal for a review, but that was absolutely the case with the Grizzly Fuzz from Stonefly Effects. This is one of the fuzziest, quirkiest, glitchiest fuzz pedals I have ever come across, and getting it to play nice was an awesome challenge. First off, there’s no power input: battery only. That should give you a hint as to how this pedal was conceived, and what it...
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I have played through a LOT of drive pedals, especially in the last year, and for the most part, they’re all relatively similar in control knob setup. That said, I always enjoy it when a pedal comes across my desk that has a new, interesting knob I have to look up to find out what it does, and how it can make the pedal (and me) sound better. Such is the case with the SPAM Drive from our mates down under, Spencer Pedals. The SPAM...
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Just take a look at this thing…recognize it? Then you’re probably not under 20 years old, as it seems these things have become somewhat of an underground legend. The Tube Driver, in this particular case from Chandler Industries in San Francisco, has been a staple on many famous and influential guitarists, even if you might not know where their killer overdrive tone was coming from. Granted, these all don’t sound the...
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This is a curious pedal. There are no labels, so you don’t know what the knobs are (Volume is pretty easy, but the rest take a little work). Plus, Left Foot Pedals is no longer in business, I just found out, so there’s no way to ask anyone about any kind of information about this little red devil. Therefore, this review was a challenge (which I enjoy) and a pleasure all in one. The original Zen Drive is highly...
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Eventide makes some pretty rad pedals. Complicated, but rad. Along the same general design lines as the incredible TimeFactor Delay and the Space Reverb comes the ModFactor Modulation pedal. This beast is capable of doing phaser, flanger, chorus, tremolo, vibrato, auto-wah, modfilter, rotary, undulator and ring mod sounds…and it does them well. Whew! Let’s get started, shall we? The main modes for the ModFactor are as...
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“There’s no way this $29.00 pedal is gonna sound like a Tube Screamer”, I said to myself while pressing the ‘Place Order’ button for the Joyo JF-01 Vintage Overdrive. I was expecting it to probably end up in a pile of not-oft-used pedals, collecting cobwebs and watching it’s sparkling green finish turn an off-pea as the years rolled by. That is NOT to be the case with this marvel. For starters, the...
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To really test this pedal, I wanted to run it through an solid state amp, to see how much “tube tone” it would actually add to a sound not produced by tubes in the first place. However, I only have 1 solid state amp, and it’s a little ZT Lunchbox. Maybe not the best demo amp, but I figured if I could coax a warm tube sound out of it, then this pedal was doing its job. Well, it did, and then some. For starters, it...
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Look what we’ve got for you today! It’s the Sick As Overdrive from our friends at Bondi Effects. The Sick As is a transparent overdrive (supposedly based around the famous Klon), and a really well made and great-sounding one at that. The Level knob does, well, you know what Level knob does, I hope. One feature I love about the Sick As is that it has Treble AND Bass EQ knobs, and on this pedal (as opposed to a number of...
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First off, the DelayLab is a BIG box, no bones about it. That said, it packs a heap of features and a million different settings to choose from, making it one of the funnest delays I’ve ever used. Simple digital readout in the top corner lets you know what bank you’re in, what the delay time is, amount of feedback being produced, etc., depending on how you turn the knobs. 3 footswitches allow for a multitude of banks (30,...
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