So you've experience the wankery that is the Mode4.
Glad you managed to coax something half decent out of it with pedals, I think they're fucking terrible.
Sixty-Nine!
Moderated By: mods
Yar indeed.
They used to have a very nice early 70s Twin Reverb, can't figure out why the Korean staff brought in the Mode4 instead, although I've been able to wring its arm to cooperate with me better than the Roland JC-120 that's always there. It's been like a solid state icepick vs. tube icepick with really stuffy break up choice.
As the distortion savior of the day, the Blackstone makes things really silly having you dig your fingernail/pick in to adjust the thing, but I've found that its red channel is one of the best "mid-to-high gain OD stompbox" deals that actually sounds massively natural through a tube clean channel, complementing a lower-gain deal on the rack. Got mine used for $170, I'll have to give a proper review sometime soon.
They used to have a very nice early 70s Twin Reverb, can't figure out why the Korean staff brought in the Mode4 instead, although I've been able to wring its arm to cooperate with me better than the Roland JC-120 that's always there. It's been like a solid state icepick vs. tube icepick with really stuffy break up choice.
As the distortion savior of the day, the Blackstone makes things really silly having you dig your fingernail/pick in to adjust the thing, but I've found that its red channel is one of the best "mid-to-high gain OD stompbox" deals that actually sounds massively natural through a tube clean channel, complementing a lower-gain deal on the rack. Got mine used for $170, I'll have to give a proper review sometime soon.