LEVEL SET BUFFER - $99.99 THE BENDS COMPRESSOR - $129.99 SANTA ANA OVERDRIVE - $199.99
While I’ve owned plenty of buffered pedals, I’ve If I’m playing worship, I’m gonna have a This may be the best feature set of any overdrive
never had a buffer pedal on my board. That compressor on the entire time. As you might I’ve played. Having separate Bass, Middle,
said, this pedal is designed to do more than just expect, the Blend control allows you to choose Treble, and Presence controls allows you to
compensate for giant pedal boards or tone- how much of the compressed signal you want get at those hard to reach frequencies that so
sucking cable runs. As the name implies, the to mix in. This allows you to set the Recovery many overdrive pedals paint into your tone. The
Level Set Buffer further expands the tonal bliss control at slower settings without having to dual function Boost footswitch enables you to
of a great buffer into a one-pedal solution for compromise all of the natural dynamics of either boost the daylights out of your signal or
compensating between the varied output levels your instrument if you don’t want to. The add “more” gain with a gentle boost - kind of
and tonal nuances when you switch between Drive control allows you to add some extra like going to 11, but better!
instruments like Strats and Les Pauls. The HI- hair, much like you get by turning up the Level FREQ control also makes it easy to tame the control to bully the front end of your amp into high-end for guitars that are just a hair “spikey”. overdriven submission.
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