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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 6:03:00 GMT
Got the box!
It's a very pleasant size. It's not a mini pedal but is smaller than regular size stomp box. Switch is quiet enough, doesn't feel cheap. The knobs are small and made of hard plastic. Pots have nice resistance to them when rotating.
Tone is very nice when going through my RP225 preamp. I can't make my Bugera V55 sound good with OD pedals. It breaks up into some unpleasant distorted tone. I think the speaker is faulty or simply can't handle well distorted signals. Anywho.
The Bass and Treble are indeed very helpful. Drive and Volume interact of course. 3 way switch is Symetrical, Silica and Asymeyrical clipping which is interesting and gives different feels.
It's power consumption is rated 75mA but does give out some noise when connected to 100mA. When on more than that noise is much less and can further be dialed down by Volume - Gain interaction as well as Treble knob.
It certainly acts as a compressor too. My Tele now has better balance between higher and lower strings.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 21:11:56 GMT
One thing to mention about such pedals: I HATE when I screw down or up the Treble or Bass knobs or even Gain knob and the volume reacts radically as was the case on the American Sound! This Lunar Drive has no such issues; I set the Level where I need it and then can crank up or down the Drive or Treble and Bass and volume is always on the same level! Just a fantastic pedal! This CKK seems not to be the usual "china shfordable" stuff! Well worth looking into this brand!
I use it as slight shimmery OD on Silica clipping or slight crunch on Symmetric clipping. So cool to just flip the toggle and off I go, I have my crunchy tone without changing the other 4 knobs (set as I like em).
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2018 21:46:07 GMT
I'm deliberately leaving my Katana as my number one amp and hiding my Fender at the moment to force myself to get to grips with it but it really isn't being kind to me. Now you know how I felt about my TE-70BP I did the same after my vacation, using only the Tele and forgetting about my Strat. This forced me to really dig into the pickup heights and amp settings until I've got what I was looking for. To get my tone from the Tele I needed to lower the bridge a lot and lift the neck bridge so its almost touching the strings. This way I have gorgeous Neck, neck-bridge parallel and neck-bridge series tones! But bridge is out as when I select it its volume is very low (Im not a bridge pup user anyway). I hope you get the Katana to sing otherwise I know a place you can use its called eBay!
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