Sound Island

This is one of the most amazing pedals I ever used and no doubt one of my favourite ones. One of the most notable features is that the pedal has some kind of equializer settings. This does not include particular frequencies ranges settings, but provides you with a handy feature of rough “low-mid-high” fixing.

I generally used it with Peavey Classic combo and this combination gave me a lovely warm sound suitable for blues and hard rock. But surprisingly, when I tried to use another combo (Fender) I found out that the pedal was able to give me a powerful, dense nu-metal sound. The only setting I had to fix was cutting off the mid. I suppose it should also be tested with Mesa Boogie amp equipment. Probably its sound can be far more inpredictable and impressive.

Following the maker’s description (and the pedal’s name itself), it has a tube emulation, which means that you can output it right in the line. It’s quite easy to misjudge this feature, but I used to play through this distortion pedal plugged into PC and I have to say its sound has not nothing to do with that terrible fuzzy high-pitched noise which other distortion pedals generates in the same conditions.

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