PurityS.L.G
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I’ve been watching many vids on it but no love from any forums. What say you gents?
CrystalSky
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@the other John Browne has demoed one, he would know better
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gritstogroats
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I have one. It took time to become attached. It can do a lot. But how the settings interact, how it reacts with your amps. At least to me not intuitive.
I see more videos out there. But besides JBs. When I bought it there wasn't much out there. Company videos were meh to me except their blues one.
I can get thicker or tighter sounds. I can tweak sounds more. I can add different flavors of gain. Use as a boost or od.
I suspect we don't hear much about it because
Company only seems to make one thing. And now recently they started making 2 more. Super small scale. It's not like their widely available and with minimal videos/word of mouth. I don't think people are going to be jumping to spend that dough.
And frankly it is harder to dial in. It's not as intuitive as I'm used to and has been a learning curve. But it was worth it to fuck around and find what I like. It can do a thick or bright clean. Thick od on like hot rodded Marshall's. Tighten up mesa and leave a little fat. Give me options for gain boosts. straight up clean boost. And stacks well with other pedals.
That said i haven't been the biggest pedal guy over the years. I recommend it but no idea if there are equivalents that are better whether single pedal or multipedal options. And as a distortion pedal it's hard for me to dial in most amps, I have no idea how I'd ever get the intended max distortion out of it.
I see more videos out there. But besides JBs. When I bought it there wasn't much out there. Company videos were meh to me except their blues one.
I can get thicker or tighter sounds. I can tweak sounds more. I can add different flavors of gain. Use as a boost or od.
I suspect we don't hear much about it because
Company only seems to make one thing. And now recently they started making 2 more. Super small scale. It's not like their widely available and with minimal videos/word of mouth. I don't think people are going to be jumping to spend that dough.
And frankly it is harder to dial in. It's not as intuitive as I'm used to and has been a learning curve. But it was worth it to fuck around and find what I like. It can do a thick or bright clean. Thick od on like hot rodded Marshall's. Tighten up mesa and leave a little fat. Give me options for gain boosts. straight up clean boost. And stacks well with other pedals.
That said i haven't been the biggest pedal guy over the years. I recommend it but no idea if there are equivalents that are better whether single pedal or multipedal options. And as a distortion pedal it's hard for me to dial in most amps, I have no idea how I'd ever get the intended max distortion out of it.
the other John Browne
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I'm super late replying to this. My apologies. The reason why they don't get much love on forums is probably because they are still really new and "just" a one man operation. They reached out to me in late 2023 asking if I wanted to try the Amp Driver, their very first pedal. I hadn't done any pedal videos at that point and I was up for a challenge. I didn't expect much to be honest and I was a little concerned on how I would be able to make a video on an OD pedal at all but I was pleasantly surprised. It has a very novel and clever apporach with two switcheable gain stages, one before and after the rest of the circuitry so you have lots and lots of options to tweak the tone of the pedal.
The guy behind Human is a great dude too. Very nice and extremely knowledgeable. He recently sent me their second pedal, the Plexcalibur. Again, I wasn't expecting an awful lot because I am not a huge distortion pedal guy and Plexis aren't the first amps I think of when I think of my go to amps but again, he managed to surprise me with his approach and it was a lot of fun.
TLDR: They are new, they are small and don't have a huge product range yet or a big marketing budget BUT they sound great, the quality is very good, they don't just copy other shit but apply their own approach to the pedal designs. I personally hope Human Pedals go far.
The guy behind Human is a great dude too. Very nice and extremely knowledgeable. He recently sent me their second pedal, the Plexcalibur. Again, I wasn't expecting an awful lot because I am not a huge distortion pedal guy and Plexis aren't the first amps I think of when I think of my go to amps but again, he managed to surprise me with his approach and it was a lot of fun.
TLDR: They are new, they are small and don't have a huge product range yet or a big marketing budget BUT they sound great, the quality is very good, they don't just copy other shit but apply their own approach to the pedal designs. I personally hope Human Pedals go far.