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Axe-Master
I'm not a Klon (or drives in general) expert in any way, but I tend to go to it when I want to drive an amp's input without much added color, and/or to mix in added distortion that does not change the amp's distortion character too much. The Klon style seems to do that in scenarios where I've used it, as opposed to the tube screamer like drives that add a definite frequency bump. A RAT with the filter all/most the way on seems to do a similar thing. I would agree with the mention above about what any given drive is going into and how that target is set up making a possibly big difference in one's opinion about what that particular drive does (particularly when running drives into eob type tones which I enjoy doing a lot of recently). I am amazed sometimes how a given drive on a given setting can be impossible to for me to get anything useable out of with AMP A set up a certain way, but into AMP B set up a certain way that same drive at same setting yields a very different and useful result.
Edit: From what I've seen / experienced I really don't understand the Klon hype. It's a drive pedal, it does its certain something like all the other drives do their certain thing. Why a real one sells for $1k is another one of life's mysteries to me .
Edit2: The Klon model is one of the ones where I like to set the drive GEQ to "Pre" position and experiment with "boosted boosts" by tweaking those GEQ sliders. Love that feature - makes for infinite possibilities with some drive models.
Edit: From what I've seen / experienced I really don't understand the Klon hype. It's a drive pedal, it does its certain something like all the other drives do their certain thing. Why a real one sells for $1k is another one of life's mysteries to me .
Edit2: The Klon model is one of the ones where I like to set the drive GEQ to "Pre" position and experiment with "boosted boosts" by tweaking those GEQ sliders. Love that feature - makes for infinite possibilities with some drive models.
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