“Hairy, dynamic
and raw, yet
defined and open.”
A big silver box with punk rock-style silk-screened graphics gleamed from behind
the display glass. It read “Death by Audio Interstellar Overdriver” and had my
attention immediately. I didn’t have time to try it out, but bought it on looks and
description alone. Now, when a pedal company boasts that their box will behave
“the same way as old tube amps,” suspicious eyebrows reflexively raise up. But, I
clicked it on at sound-check with the Overdrive at three and the Master just past
unity and it turned my Vibro King into an old cranked non-master-volume British
amp. We were listening to a lot of Wire in the van at the time and it was agreed by
all that this pedal was Pink Flag guitar tone in a box. Hairy, dynamic and raw, yet
defined and open. My old song-writing partner still uses my old DBA Interstellar
Overdriver as a Fender-Marshall blender and an always-on Tele and Strat fattener.
He won’t ever sell it back to me and I don’t blame him.
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