First Thoughts: Devi Ever Shoe Gazer - Review

[MaxMaps]

How I got it:

My interest was peaked when I was watching ol Grygrx and a fellow named Spanky review several devi ever pedals. The one which tickled my interest was the Soda Meister. Long story short, Devi is here in portland which is where I live so about a 10 minuet drive from work and I was at a local music shop where only two Devi pedals were available. The shoe gazer was one of them and with in 10 minuets of a short test run I was 200.00 poorer and one pedal richer.

My set up:

Ashdown 15w practice amp--- Tuner ---Shoe Gazer---Pork Loin---Swollen Pickle mk2----Ehx Memory Boy--Ehx Stereo Memory Man--G&L Custom ASAT.

About the pedal:

From the website its a combination of the Torn's Peaker and the Soda Meister. The pedal has 4 knobs, Volume and Texture which control the Torn's Peaker side. The Gain and Intensity knobs control the Soda Meister side.


First Thoughts:

This is the sound I have been chasing for ever since I got the pedal bug. Growly, distorted mayhem, I am head over heals for this thing. It takes the bass and turns it into a sonic buzz saw. The Torn's Peaker side is very sensitive to the volume knob on the bass. turned down you get a clean tone but that soon disappears when you crank it. CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH, the sound has a real nasty bite too it.

The Soda Mister side is some sort of super fuzz. Compared to the Mk2 it sucks a lot of low-end out a replaces it with a blanket of fuzz. I think this may be a problem in my pedal chain so I will do some musical chairs next go around. There is nothing "muffish" to this type of fuzz, it is kind of unrefined. It is hard to dial anything other than fuzzzzzzzzzzz.

Combined you get a sound that is just dominating. Its nasty growly and fuzzy in the you left a apple core behind the garbage and left it for 10 days type of way. It did not play nice with others. It did sound groovy with the swollen pickle engaged with it.

Recommend?:

For me this is a home run, I have found my gnarly fuzz sound that I want and I will build my dirt board around this sound.

For others if you are looking for something that has a nasty bite to it I would point you in this direction. If you want something more PG 13 than stay way because it can give you nightmares.

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I will add more as I play around with it more, already 500 of my money into pedals and this has me rethinking my set up. If you have a Shoe Gazer please add to this.

[JimmyM]

i'm not sure, but i get the impression you liked it.

[FreaqyFrequency]

Jimmy, it's painfully obvious that he hated it. Nowhere in his post did I find the phrase "pedal of the future."

[MaxMaps]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

i'm not sure, but i get the impression you liked it.

I am deep into the honey moon phase, I will be more critical later on. But of many pedals I have tested thus far this is in my top 5.

I will add pedal of the future into the next impression thread I create.

[BassBrass]

@ full rock band volume through 1050 watts 1.5 stacks, Soda Meister made me disappear, big low end loss. But a BIT Legend of Fuzz is magic at 25% blend (25% effect, both BIT knobs at 12, high output where the BIT likes to be, but squashed volume). Sounds like a synthy tuba. I will try most of her single pedals eventually!
The 2 pedal arrangement isn't useful for me, they are too expensive in money and board space for specialty (not always used, needing a blend) pedals.

[metalmariachi]

Nice review.

I don’t have a shoe gazer, but do have the single TP and SM.
I too love what they do. I found that lowering the voltage to the SM smoothes the fuzz and brings up a little more low end.


MM

[MaxMaps]

Originally Posted by BassBrass

@ full rock band volume through 1050 watts 1.5 stacks, Soda Meister made me disappear, big low end loss. But a BIT Legend of Fuzz is magic at 25% blend (25% effect, both BIT knobs at 12, high output where the BIT likes to be, but squashed volume). Sounds like a synthy tuba. I will try most of her single pedals eventually!
The 2 pedal arrangement isn't useful for me, they are too expensive in money and board space for specialty (not always used, needing a blend) pedals.

+1 I find that the Torn's Peaker does not have any volume issues.

I am going to work on it further.

[Kügel]

Any sound clips?