The Rich Drive Pedal has been discovered in Houston Texas

The Rich Drive Pedal has been discovered in

Houston, Texas USA !

 

Mr Craig Feazel of Houston Texas, guitar &

pedal-steel player with Katie Stuckey & also

'The Small Sounds' (see below) has recently

purchased the 'Rich Drive' pedal.

 

Please check out his very thorough review here:

 

 

Ivan,

 

Thanks for the pedal. After a week of 'test driving'

it, I am ready to give you my impressions. Let me

begin by saying the 'Rich Drive' is an exceptional

pedal. Extremely rugged, well-constructed and

beautiful sounding. My expectations were exceeded.

I initially tested it with a Gibson SG into my custom

built 'Airtight Garage' 2X12 valve amp. The 'Airtight

Garage' is my amp of choice currently, which is just

basically a modified hand-wired version of a Fender

DeLuxe Reverb amp.

 

The pedal was much more natural sounding than my

'Tube Screamer' and did not have that nasal and

harsh midrange which is all too common with the

TS9/TS808's. The overdrive was smooth and glassy,

never brittle. Very impressive. Further, there is

the perfect amount of boost at your disposal to

get your 'leads' out in front of the mix.

 

I next tried the pedal through the same amp,

but with a 'Telecaster'. Great sound. This pedal

is much more responsive with single coils when

using a Fender-style amp. I felt with the Telecaster

there was less tonal colouration, in that the

sound of the Telecaster remained true whether

the Rich Drive was engaged or not. When engaged,

the same tone was there but overdriven into a

useable overdrive that I found suitable not only

for leads, but when I backed off the volume on

the pedal, worked great to simulate a DeLuxe

Reverb maxed out.

 

Here is where things get better. At the Houston

Press Music Awards show, I used the Rich Drive

through a custom-shop, hand-wired Marshall

JTM45 Limited Edition. I will not try to capture

in words just how beautiful it sounded. But to

my ears, it was perfact, like as if you took

the best sounding 'Rangemaster' and blended

it with the perfect TS808. I will leave it at

that. I am a man of simple vocabulary and

limited skills of expression. I don't want to

do it an injustice. Thanks, great pedal !

 

Craig F.

 

 

Katie Stuckey

Houston, Texas

folk/folk-rock/americana

www.myspace.com/katiestuckey

 

The Small Sounds

Houston, Texas

folk/indie

www.myspace.com/thesmallsounds