This is from a review I posted over at Huge Racks on some Danelectro Cool Cat (
www.coolcattone.com) pedals (there are 9 in total currently and a great value at their price point, they sound great) I got a chance to beta test:
I got the Drive, the Fuzz, and the Tremelo...
Here's my feelings on them after running them a bit....very cool. They sound great, the casing feels substantial and the switches feel nice when engaging and disengaging an effect. The one negative I found is that the control pots over the jacks are hard to manipulate when you have a right angled plug in in each one...
The Tremelo - excels on a clean channel, still has a bit of bleed tho even set on the hard setting, but it sounds really really cool, if they could kill the bleed it would rule the school at it's pricepoint
The Fuzz - actually quite usable for a variety of sounds. I've gotten Hendrix out it with ease, the big surprise was getting that Gish/Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins tones out of it without it being stacked on top of another OD. The other cool thng is that the tone knob is really reactive and with the gain dimed I can still hear notes in chords which isn't a characteristic of fuzz that it's usually known for. Really cool...and LOUD to boot.
The Drive - good for warm rock tones into a clean amp, LOUD as far as the volume pot goes. The tone control is reactive as well. The other cool thing is using this as a boost...it really compresses but kicks up the dirty channel on my
Stiletto Ace nicely. For comparison purposes, I'd like to try the Transparent OD. It gets pretty chunky into the clean channel, but it's not going past mid-gain work for chording. You won't be getting metal out of it. But it does sound nice on the v60's in my Suhr for some lower gained lead work.
PedalPat's the MAN. Overall great experience with messing with these and I think I might pickup a few of the others once they put them out and setup a little Cool Cat boa
