Tone Report Weekly Issue 142 | Page 9

➍ ERNIE BALL HARNASSES THE POWER OF EXPRESSION WITH THE EXPRESSION OVERDRIVE ➍ The Ernie Ball Expression Overdrive comes in a beautiful gold enclosure and features a full-featured overdrive pedal in a handy expression-type format. Three knobs sit on the front face of the pedal— Drive, Tone and a handy Boost control that kicks the pedal’s dirt into high-gear. The footpedal controls a Mix parameter, for easy integration into any rig. The pedal is also housed in a smaller pedalboard-friendly format so it fits on the most crowded boards. ➎ JUPITER FX GETS HEAVY WITH THE GAINSAW DELUXE ➎ The Deluxe version of the Gainsaw invokes two Gainsaw circuits in one, drastically opening up the pedal by adding Tone, Gain and Feedback controls, as well as the option to engage feedback separately. Having two high-gain fuzz pedals in series makes for an ultra-saturated fuzz experience that makes mincemeat out of any amplifier in its way, while the Feedback control adds in some interesting textures not normally associated with fuzz. ➏ COG EFFECTS GETS DOUBLELOW WITH THE T-70 ➏ The future of analog octave effects is here, courtesy of the Cog Effects T-70. Featuring two separate circuits (two T-35s), the T-70 features two individual parallel effects loops for each channel. The desired channel is selected via footswitch, while a third footswitch engaged speaker-pummeling sub-octave tones. Each channel, including the Sub channel, features its own set of controls and filters to maximize the speaker-quaking goodness. ToneReport.com 9