PG's Joe Coffey is On Location in Nashville, TN, for Summer NAMM
'09 where he visits the Visual Sound booth. In this segment, we get to
check out three of their newest V2 Series pedals - Vans Warped Distortion,
Open Road Overdrive and Truetone Clean Boost.
The Vans Warped
Distortion is limited edition pedal that has three basic controls -
Grind, Edge, and Loud (translation: Drive, Tone, Volume). The Vans
Warped Distortion is definitely geared towards Warped Tour inspired
guitarists. The Visual Sound guys were really proud of its grinding,
low-end distortion, which is pertinent to a lot of the Warped Tour artists' tone.
Based on Visual Sound's Route 808, the Open Road
offers that tone but with a more open sounding, amp-like overdrive with
less dominant mid-range. It produces clear low end, sparkling highs and
none of the mid-range hump. Open Road features a very interactive tone
circuit, effecting not only high-end roll-off, but gain structure as
well.
Truetone Clean Boost is a way to push the front end of
your tube amp. Then again, it's also a great way to push a good
overdrive pedal a bit harder. If you like the tone you already have
from another pedal, just put the Truetone after that pedal for a volume
boost as the Visual Sound guys said its great for a solo boost or to
make a certain part stand out. The Truetone can get up to a 15dB boost,
but it runs internally off of 27V - so all of that boost is clean. They
bump up the voltage inside the pedal, rather than requiring use of a
special external power supply.
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