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Jack of all trades
Got this pedal after being a long time fan of Paul Gilbert, but was I surprised at its capabilities. To break it down:
I intended to use it mainly as an EQ/preamp almost at the start of my signal chain, to beef up the sound when needed, much like Gilbert does. After getting the pedal, I got to work with it for a few months and it has proven itself a real jack of all trades. Be it as boost, an od, bordering a distortion or simply an eq curving tool it was great.
Clarity-wise it can go from all out thick roaring sound, rich in low mids, to trasperent frequency boosting best for heating or melting a tube amp's front end. It could help to think of Godzilla by Racer X as its easy playground, when put in-front of a slightly cranked British amp. Riffs and leads alike can be worked out with this one.
Now one can not really fault anything at it at this price point. While the price would suggest poor construction it is totally NOT true. It is built like a tank, great casing, great switch.
To sum up, buy it. It is surely at a price point that it wont break the bank, and it will surprise you with its potential. In case mine got stolen or ever broke down, I would certainly replace it.
I intended to use it mainly as an EQ/preamp almost at the start of my signal chain, to beef up the sound when needed, much like Gilbert does. After getting the pedal, I got to work with it for a few months and it has proven itself a real jack of all trades. Be it as boost, an od, bordering a distortion or simply an eq curving tool it was great.
Clarity-wise it can go from all out thick roaring sound, rich in low mids, to trasperent frequency boosting best for heating or melting a tube amp's front end. It could help to think of Godzilla by Racer X as its easy playground, when put in-front of a slightly cranked British amp. Riffs and leads alike can be worked out with this one.
Now one can not really fault anything at it at this price point. While the price would suggest poor construction it is totally NOT true. It is built like a tank, great casing, great switch.
To sum up, buy it. It is surely at a price point that it wont break the bank, and it will surprise you with its potential. In case mine got stolen or ever broke down, I would certainly replace it.
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If it's on Paul Gilbert's board, it's staying on mine.
I use it in a different way than him though, since he likes to use it with a beefier more bassy setting, I prefer it with the switch down and cutting the base a bit. I mainly use it combined with a TC Electronics Spark and or Dark Matter and dial in the sound with either of those on. Combined with different amp models, you can get any type of overdrive tone you can think of, and beautifully so. From light-medium intensity overdrive all the way up light-medium distortion at the very extreme of the gain knob, very versatile.
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For this price nothing comes close
Being a Paul Gilbert fan known for using this pedal extensively, I was interested to see what sound this little box can produce.
For around 50? this pedal produces a lot, and I have to say more than a lot of boutique pedals.
The key word for this pedal is subtle, it is not all out distortion but produces a very realistic loud amp break up into overdrive.
The tone controls are very useful to tailor the sound and allow you to produce a wide range of overdrive tones. Due to the low amount of drive, you can use this as a clean boost, but best results are just as your amp goes slightly dirty, use this pedal to push it a little more.
This is a really nice, rock / blues pedal. I also have the Dark Matter which takes you to the other end of the spectrum.
As I say for 50? there is very little competition from other manufacturers, therefore I can only recommended this even to just have for emergencies in the gig bag.
Great purchase from Thomann.
For around 50? this pedal produces a lot, and I have to say more than a lot of boutique pedals.
The key word for this pedal is subtle, it is not all out distortion but produces a very realistic loud amp break up into overdrive.
The tone controls are very useful to tailor the sound and allow you to produce a wide range of overdrive tones. Due to the low amount of drive, you can use this as a clean boost, but best results are just as your amp goes slightly dirty, use this pedal to push it a little more.
This is a really nice, rock / blues pedal. I also have the Dark Matter which takes you to the other end of the spectrum.
As I say for 50? there is very little competition from other manufacturers, therefore I can only recommended this even to just have for emergencies in the gig bag.
Great purchase from Thomann.
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Nice amp boost
Used it mainly as a boost pedal for quite a high-gain amp. It doesnt have the same effect as TS where mids are boosted slightly. This thing is more of a full spectrum boost (with quite a lot of bass). It added nice moderate tightness and juiciness to the amp. Cant say its better or worse than other known od pedals, it has its own place and sound. And its always nice to have different od pedals handy.
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One of the best overdrives on the market
This overdrive is very versatile and touch responsive. You can dial in good sounds and it works well stacked with boosters and other overdrives.
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Mr Gilbert loves it and now me too... This pedal does exactly what it have to do, a reach and fat overdriven tone into a very solid metal case. For a fraction of the price the mojomojo destroys all the overdrive I've used in the past. Absolutely spot on!
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Awesome tone.
So, I got this to give an extra push to my lead channel and it works great.
You can definitely hear the difference between Lead channel with and lead without.
With the MojoMojo, the tone became a little more thick and alive.
Definitely recommend it.
You can definitely hear the difference between Lead channel with and lead without.
With the MojoMojo, the tone became a little more thick and alive.
Definitely recommend it.
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Tc electronics overlooked masterpiece!
I use this pedal just to add a bit of dirt to my clean tone. Of all the overdrive pedals i've used over the years this one is the most transparent. The active bass and treble controls help shape the sound and are really useful if you're changing between different types of guitar. It has a fair amount of gain and can be rolled back to a clean tone using your guitars volume knob just like a tube amp. This pedal gets overlooked by people in favour of boss od3's or tubecreamers but it beats them handsdown! For the price you really cant go wrong.
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Get your mojo back
A great sounding pedal, very versatile due to the subtle but warm OD, I have it in front of a Marshal DSL acting like 3rd and 4th channels for the amp.
It gives a nice OD to the clean channel, and then warms up the dirty channel for solos, effectively behaving like a dirty boost.
It gives a nice OD to the clean channel, and then warms up the dirty channel for solos, effectively behaving like a dirty boost.
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Wide-range overdrive
I love the range of this overdrive, it goes from a nice boost to a fuzz and it works amazing on both guitar and bass. The only downsides that I found were:
- Even when the bass knob is all the way down, the tone is quite dark/muddy to appreciate the harmonics of chords
- The voice switch makes little to no difference
- Even when the bass knob is all the way down, the tone is quite dark/muddy to appreciate the harmonics of chords
- The voice switch makes little to no difference
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