I stopped in at my local GC to buy some strings last night and found myself under attack by the usual guitar shredder wanna be's. However, as I'm standing at the accesory counter this fellow leans over to me from the pedal display and asks me what I think about the distortion he's checking out. I was actually fairly impressed and told him so. It turns out that he was actually a GC employee that was checking out a new MXR Classic Distortion pedal. He then says that they'll be pushing it as a Black Friday special for $30.
He then told me that if I'd like one he'd give it to me at that price now. Not knowing what it would sound like through my rig or on bass for that matter I thought for $30 bucks what the heck. If nothing else it would be a great Christmas gift for one of the many guitar players I know.
Let me preface my thoughts by saying that I'm not a big distortion kind of guy. With that said, I was really happy with this pedal on my practice rig at home and my gig rig later that night. I was able to dial in everything from a subtle dirt to some metal tones. However, there was some loss of the low end but nothing that would make it non-usable.
I'll let someone who knows more about distortion and overdrive pedal do a write up if they feel it's worthy. I just wanted to give you all a heads up on this deal as for $30 it's hard to go wrong. With a solid metal housing and bypass switching (I think) it would easily be a good mod project if nothing else.
Let me know if any of you have run across this thing. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
I think it may be a "GC Exclusive."
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