Emerson Guitars EM-Drive Overdrive Pedal

Great little pedal, warm and doesn't color the tone. It can be used like a clean boost or with a bit more gain gives a great warm lightly overdriven amp like tone.

Rock solid exceptionally well made pedal with a good range of settings that can really make your amp sing. You need to have a certain amount of 'grit' or break up in your amp setting for it to really show it's stuff, so either turn up or use an amp with a master volume so you can adjust the amount of tube gain. A keeper.

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Great pedal

This is not your standard overdrive pedal, It does exactly what it says, TRANSPARENT OVERDRIVE, and it does it extremely well. This is perfect for the players who prefer clean channel amp tones, but would like to have just a touch of grit in your tone. I play both Humbuckers, and single coil pickups. I find what is best for me is the gain knob in the 9:00 position for humbuckers, and 12:00 position for single coil. Not only does it enhance your tone, but it provides and underlining of gain (hints the word TRANSPARENT) that can make your tone really stand out. The casing is very well constructed, and two knobs make this pedal extremely simple to use. It has a permanent place in my rig.

I own one of these. It's currently my favorite low gain OD/boost. If you like your clean tone, this adds NO color. Just edge-of-breakup grit and harmonics. It's a lively sound, and on the bright side (might require slight EQ adjustment if you don't want bright. I find it cuts very well as it is).I A/Bed with a Timmy, and was almost able to make them sound the same, but the Timmy has a much wider range of tones. I like the EM better because it's very easy to dial in. With single coils, I set the gain knob at 75-90%, and with humbuckers 30-50%.