NPD: Spiral FX White dirty boost

[LSMFT6]

Wow! I had high hopes for the White and it’s totally blowing me away. Copy/paste from TGP:

It adds a really sweet grunt overall and pushes the mids forward without getting the typical nasally mid-boosted sound. Pleasantly ballsy is how I would describe it, meanness without being harsh.
Tom was right that bassists will love the Omega setting, but the Alpha sounds totally massive as well. The scope of interaction between the knobs really feels vast on the White, even without changing the toggle setting.
The range of the Grit knob is perfectly suited to a dirty boost pedal, this is not an overdrive or distortion. At higher settings it sounds downright tubey.

I was GASing hard for a Brute and Limited Edition Yellow, but the White is certainly going to hold my interest for the foreseeable future. Tom wasn’t kidding when he said this is a great always-on pedal.


I’m extremely pleased with the White and looking forward to spending more time with it.

 

[fdbishop1]

I’m loving mine as an always on tone sweetener. Just purchased the limited edition yellow and can’t wait for that to come in.

 

[fdbishop1]

If you don’t mind me asking what rig are you running it through/other effects, and have you found any setting yet that really jumps out to you ?

 

[LSMFT6]

I’ve only gotten a chance to play it through headphones so far, I let my buddy borrow it to use with the Milkman pedal he just got.

As an always-on, I keep the Output around 9:00, the Grit just below noon and the Girth somewhere in the middle settings, using the Omega mode.

 

[Tom Von Kramm]

Congrats! I had several local bassists beta test the White before release and I got lots of positive feedback. I tried to make it more than just a typical boost.

 

[AMJBASS]

Oh man... this might be exactly what I'm looking for.

 

[fdbishop1]

So far I’ve just left the grit at 1 and the gain at 9. I keep flipping between the alpha and omega, haven’t decided which I prefer. My yellow spiral comes in tomorrow. I plan on running it first in the chain for a hair of grit, then the Broughton sv-pre for some occasional eq when playing with headphones, into the white spiral for that bit of tone magic/volume bump over unity, and into my cabsim