Two days ago I received these two funny pedals from fuzzbuzzfuzz:
The Guyatone Dual Octave Box is a very synthesizer-like sounding octaver. It is really more a guitar synth. Tracking is a bit fiddly sometimes. It does a good job when being placed AFTER a distortion. The other way round doesn't sound too great as far as I've tested it. Phaser after it sounds awesome and even more like a synthesizer.
The pedal with the red transparent chassis is a Ken Multi Distortion in a limited edition. It is Made in Japan and actually it is the same as the Aria ADT-1 Distortion. This red pedal has a story behind it! A few years ago I saw a very similar looking pedal
in a dream. In my dream I stumbled over a cheap distortion in a red transparent chassis with a very rough and somehow cool lo-fi sound. Then a few months ago I spotted this model at the effectsdatabase and I was eager to hunt one down. So fuzzbuzzfuzz helped me out (Thanks again, mate!
) and now I have it: the pedal from my dream!
It can even sound like I "heard" it in my dream. With gain and tone in maximum position it has a thinned-out high gain distortion sound similar to nasty fuzz units. More moderate settings allow for really great sounding smooth distortion with lots of picking sensitivity. The tone control is very effective and with gain below 10:00h it can serve as a booster.
All in all a very cool unit with a surprisingly good sound. The bypass is also great and downright noise-free. If you ever spot one of those Aria plastic pedals, give it a go! This one is for sure an underestimated beast.
And a funny gimmick of the transparent version is that it has another bigger LED below the treadle. It looks great, especially in the dark:
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