Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

In my quest to find the best overdrive and distortion pedal for my tone, I found that the Visual Sound Jekyl and Hyde was a fairly good pedal. Being a double pedal, I found myself only using the TS clone side of the pedal and very rarely if ever stomping on the distortion side. When I found out the Visual Sound was releasing a pedal with 2 TS-808 clones side by side I thought this could be one of the elusive pedals that I have been looking for.

What makes this pedal more useful is the ability to stack two vintage chip model tube screamers. I have liked setting the first in the series at more of a slightly gainy clean signal boost with some added high end, and the second one full gain with the bass boost circuit on. What this gives me is the ability to have a slightly clipped signal that works good with my strat tones without loss of picking styles, and one that is a real creamy distorted sound that has good sustain. If I need more sustain or more sustain with more high end I will kick both of the sides of the pedal on to get that.

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