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| Anyone who knows the Carl Martin line that includes music pedals, distortion pedals, delay pedals, tremolo pedals, reverb pedals, chorus pedals ,overdrive pedals and many more, is familiar with his Clean Boost….a bump-up in signal volume that can be used either with your clean or overdriven sounds.Carl Martin have given the Vintage Series a face lift! A new, fresh, anodized pedal designed for a smaller pedal board footprint, with all the same great tones. Here are the first in the series: The Carl Martin DC Drive, with it’s killer Overdrive. Besides the typical Level, Tone and Drive knobs which obviously control the volume of the signal, the tone (hmmm, which knob?) and the amount of overdrive, Carl has smartly added a Regular/Fat switch….not so typical. In Regular mode, the drive is crisp and clear, suitable for anything that calls for old-school drive….switch over to Fat and the drive gets thicker with a lot more gain, much more modern. The pedal can be powered by a regulated power supply like the Carl Martin ProPower V2. The Carl Martin DC-Drive is four stompboxes into one stompbox: – crystal Clean sound from your amplifier (the stompbox doesn`t add an extra colour/a factory sound to the original signal), Clean sound plus Boost, Drive and Drive plus Boost.Carl Martin DC-Drive IS THE BEST overdrive I`ve ever played, and when I count all the stompboxes I`ve owned since 1977, it`s also THE BEST IN HISTORY! Even if you`re a guitarist who doesn`t necessarily need a lot of overdrive to your tone, but just a really good boost (0-15db extra output) that doesn`t alter the original sound from your guitar, Carl Martin DC Drive is still the answer.This little device simply kicks **s! Compared to the Carl Martin Plexitone, the DC-Drive sounds like the first channel of the Plexitone, with a little more bite and a little more compression. It’s kind of rougher, thou it has not as much gain. |
