Thank you ladies and gents at Visual Sound. This is Jerry Pietrzak (winner of the Rt. 66 American Overdrive contest). I've just finished a recording project using your unique overdrive pedal (exclusively), and am very pleased with the results. The first thing I noticed with the unit is that it retains the character of the guitar irrespective of the amount of gain dialed in. The sound is never "washed out" or muddy, and always remains punchy. The rhythm guitars (2tracks, hard left and right) were recorded on a Fender Tele Thinline reissue, gain on the pedal was pretty much maxed out, volume about halfway, and tone about 3/4 up w/o bass boost. This went into my tube combo (Yamaha T50-C) set clean. Lead guitar was recorded with a Fender Big Apple Strat into the same amp, but using the overdrive channel. The pedal was set to provide "boost" rather than overdrive, bass boost in, with very little distortion (set at about 9 o'clock) from the unit, tone at about 3 o'clock. This gave me a great "liquid" type overdrive. I recorded the bass direct into my Roland VS880 using only the compressor portion of the pedal (don't know if it is supposed to used this way, but it worked). Compression was maxed out here, and it helped me retain a "hot" signal without peaking out. I played all the guitars and bass (with the exception of the solo in the middle portion of the song, which was done by fellow shredster Lou Borella, nice sweeping Lou!), sequencing drums and other sounds with Cakewalk. I'm also using this pedal live with my blues band (Frankie Bell, Princess of the Blues), and it's the only device that goes between the amp and me. The compressor is extremely useful in the application, really tightening up my sound. Anyway, hope you enjoy the song "Industrial Clap", and thanks for turning me on to this cool device!

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