Emissary Overdrive
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Emissary Overdrive
I've been designing this medium gain soft clipper on and off for about a year. Despite it being gold and horsey it's nothing like a Klon but is a medium gain blues machine that absolutely loves the neck pickup of a strat, Comp switch up, Size switch up, and dollops of warm reverb. Bliss. It'll get reasonably hairy, but I really didn't design it for that.
The 3 top controls are pretty self-explanatory. The COMP switch on the right is how much compression/clipping you want. Up is asymmetrical and rounder and vintage sounding, bottom is symmetrical red LEDs, and middle is no clipping at all if you want a thicker sound.
The SIZE switch on the right has 3 options as well - Small, Medium, Large - and this switch controls how much low end is in the signal. I've had a lot of OD pedals that when used as boosts on a dirty-ish amp, they flub out and muddy up the sound. I wanted something to remedy that.
There's the added benefit here that, when using it as a standalone OD into a clean channel, you've got the options of a warm juicy tone for your bridge leads (when size is down) or low-gain fingerpicked passages, or you can remove off a lot of the mud and wool from a LP neck pickup (with the switch either up or middle). I gotta say this is an absolute blast to use as a boost into a dirty recto, adding a really aggressive snarl and cut that's quite addicting, but one of my tele playing blues friends spent about 45 minutes with the gain low, volume up, comp switch up, into a clean ish Fender Hot Rod and loved it.
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I've got 3 of these made up in different shades of gold ranging from dark and muted to quite snazzy and garish.
Pedals are cool. Sparkly boxes are cool. Softboxes are cool.
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Re: Emissary Overdrive
Love it
Mr Sparkle
Any comment on how this might sit with:
P90s into bassman 6g6b or supro black magic
335 70s Gibson tarbacks into same
Jazzmaster with a Tele master bridge into the 6g6
Aim: first two scenarios smooth over drive lead noodling
Third scenario: dirty clean junky surf b52s
Gracias
Mr Sparkle
Any comment on how this might sit with:
P90s into bassman 6g6b or supro black magic
335 70s Gibson tarbacks into same
Jazzmaster with a Tele master bridge into the 6g6
Aim: first two scenarios smooth over drive lead noodling
Third scenario: dirty clean junky surf b52s
Gracias
Last edited by StrummersOfThunder on Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:07 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Emissary Overdrive
Aroused.
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Re: Emissary Overdrive
Sounds absolutely nothing like a Klon.NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:23 pm it's nothing like a Klon but is a medium gain blues machine that absolutely loves the neck pickup of a strat
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Re: Emissary Overdrive
Raucous bellly laugh and live studio audience applauserobthemac wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:02 pmSounds absolutely nothing like a Klon.NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:23 pm it's nothing like a Klon but is a medium gain blues machine that absolutely loves the neck pickup of a strat
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Re: Emissary Overdrive
Since I'm considering an artwork change (making the "overdrive" text bigger) I wouldn't be against sending it out, but on the other hand this is a product I sell so I don't want it getting fucked up either. But on my other other hand it's also a damn good pedal that people might like to play and exposure to the brand is not a bad thing, and if people wanted to make videos and/or talk about it that only helps MP in the long run.
I can send one out to someone if they can pass the parcel to another guy and then it gets back here when everyone's had their fun.