Drive

The drive block replicates the effect of classic “stomp boxes”. They range from sublime to intense. Use caution when putting a drive before a high-gain amp as excessive noise and squealing may occur. Drives work best before low and medium gain amps.

Parameters

• TYPE - Selects the type of drive effect. The fuzz types are based on a hard-clipping distortion and give a raspy sound. The overdrive (OD) types are based on a cold-cathode tube model and give a warm, mellow overdrive tone. The boost types don’t distort much unless the drive is set quite high and are primarily tone-shaping and overdrive devices. The distortion types (dist) are based on a variety of tube and solid-state models and give classic distortion tones. The following types are available:
  • Rat Fuzz - Based on a high-gain, raspy fuzz good for searing lead work.
  • Pi Fuzz - A more mellow but fuzzy distortion sound
  • Tube OD - A fairly neutral distortion sound with just a bit of low-frequency roll-off.
  • Super OD - Midrangey, honking tone with a good snarl.
  • Treb Boost - A bright, trebly sound good for overdriving medium gain amps. Particularly effective on darker amps like Class A. This type has a LOT of treble boost and can easily cause pickup squeal when used with a high-gain amp type.
  • Mid Boost - A custom mid-boost overdrive.
  • Tube Dist - A screaming distortion sound good for overdriving low gain amps. Based on the legendary Japanese pedal used by many famous artists.
  • Fat Dist - A thick, medium gain distortion sound with a low-midrange emphasis.
  • Cust Dist - Based on a “modified” Tube Dist type. This type captures the most popular mods done to the famed Japanese distortion pedal. Sounds great as a clean boost in front of a low gain amp with the drive turned down and the level turned up.
  • Super Dist - Another Japanese distortion, this model is similar to the Tube Dist model but with more highs and a slightly different tone control circuit.
• DRIVE - Sets the input drive level.
• TONE - Controls the tone of the effect.
• LEVEL - Sets the output level of the block
• BYP MODE - Selects the bypass mode of the block.