Blackstone Appliance Overdrive Pedal Review
I bought a Blackstone the other week. It was built very quickly (within a week mine came in the mail). My favorite amp is a Fender Twin, and I was looking around for some suggestions on pedals for this amp. The Twin has no distortion, and really needs to crank to get the full sound out of it. Most pedals I tried with it just sounded, well, muddy. They weren’t really sounding like they were part of the sound.
So people kept recommending this pedal on forums. I took a chance. I was victorious. This sounds great with my amp. It has technology that tones out differently as you turn your volume. It is such a nice sounding box - it beats the hell out of my Tube Driver. It has some punch, but if you’re looking for a screaming metal distortion, you need to layer it onto this. But for the first time in a while, I feel like I have a guitar tone to be proud of.
From the site: ”The Blackstone circuit is also unusual in that it interacts with the inductance of your guitar’s pickups to get its unique dynamic response. It is very sensitive to playing dynamics, but translates them into changes in waveform distortion, rather than passing them on as changes in output level. This gives you a greater range of expression in your picking technique, but at the same time evens out volume differences. Because the guitar’s pickups and controls are actually part of the input stage, you can get anything from a juicy, harmonic-laden lead sound to a barely-breaking twang with just the guitar’s volume control. “