#1 · Dec 09, 2008 18:03 UTC
So, the bass player in the kid's band I play for is a website designer for music sites. And one of sites he did was for Satch. So he ended up filming the videos for Satch's demos of the new Vox Satchurator pedal. Anyway, Joe flowed him a couple of pedals, and, nice guy he is, he gave me one. No shit.
So last night I sat down and demoed it, and I've gotta tell you, this is a kick-ass pedal. Kick Ass! There are many cool things about it... one is the sound. Super hi-fi. I compared it to three other pedals and it was truer, brighter, and more hi-fi than any of them. The tone control is extremely sensitive, and takes the pedal from "total mud" to "treble booster". The gain knob takes it from just overdriven to really thick distortion (not overdrive--distortion)... and I tried it with a strat with single coils. I don't doubt this thing would absolutely crush with humbuckers. There's a pad switch which... lowers the input a little. I guess it's there just in case you want to run another pedal into it really loud. Also very cool are the footswitches. They don't have a click to them, they are just smooth, and they are completely silent.
But the coolest thing about it to me is the "more" switch. It does exactly what it says, but with a twist. At medium to high gain, it just makes the sound "more"--the kind of switch you hit for your solo. But it's not a boost--it adds gain, and adds dome mids and highs at the same time. It's more like a "cut through the mix" switch. The cool part is, at low gain settings, say with the gain at 9 o'clock, the "more" button really adds quite a bit more gain. It's more like having an overdrive and a distortion pedal at lower settings.
Anyway, pretty cool. This just might become my new main pedal.
So last night I sat down and demoed it, and I've gotta tell you, this is a kick-ass pedal. Kick Ass! There are many cool things about it... one is the sound. Super hi-fi. I compared it to three other pedals and it was truer, brighter, and more hi-fi than any of them. The tone control is extremely sensitive, and takes the pedal from "total mud" to "treble booster". The gain knob takes it from just overdriven to really thick distortion (not overdrive--distortion)... and I tried it with a strat with single coils. I don't doubt this thing would absolutely crush with humbuckers. There's a pad switch which... lowers the input a little. I guess it's there just in case you want to run another pedal into it really loud. Also very cool are the footswitches. They don't have a click to them, they are just smooth, and they are completely silent.
But the coolest thing about it to me is the "more" switch. It does exactly what it says, but with a twist. At medium to high gain, it just makes the sound "more"--the kind of switch you hit for your solo. But it's not a boost--it adds gain, and adds dome mids and highs at the same time. It's more like a "cut through the mix" switch. The cool part is, at low gain settings, say with the gain at 9 o'clock, the "more" button really adds quite a bit more gain. It's more like having an overdrive and a distortion pedal at lower settings.
Anyway, pretty cool. This just might become my new main pedal.