It reflects a keen understanding of what goes into making tube overdrive sound great. Despite its compact size ideal for pedalboard space economy, the pigtronix fat drive is easily the biggest guy in the room when it comes to sound. Your new fat drive is an analog distortion designed to impart warm, tube sound overdrive while remaining transparent and true to your guitars tone. Pigtronix fat drive is an all analog tube sound overdrive. Being that this is the fat drive, then, we ought to assume that this stylish little overdrive will do everything it takes to match that ambitious. Pigtronix fat drive the pigtronix fat drive creates a pure analogue overdrive by using multiple gain stages that more closely resemble the way tubes operate, thus producing a more tubelike sound. The fat drive is sensitive to your playing dynamics and will respond musically no matter how soft or hard you push it. The fat drive s multiple cascaded gain stages enable you to nail sounds ranging from bluesy overdrive to rich saturation, all while retaining musical dynamics and the original character of your instrument. You can add rich overdrive to your sound without losing your dynamics and the character of your guitar. I work at a music go round used gear store and we had a pigtronix fat drive sitting on the shelf so i tried it out. Ive tried many overdrive and distortion pedals, but theres something about the pigtronix fat drive that makes it unique. That is a very good pedal even in its guitar version.
Featuring cascaded gain stages, a low pass filter, and cmos clipping, the fat drive sports a weighty lowend presence and immense tonal clarity for a real heavyweight overdrive. Pigtronix pxfat fat drive tube sound overdrive from ivor mairants. This custom shop pedal boasts independent fat drive and class a boost functions that can be individually engaged or stacked together to produce everything from touch sensitive, high output drive to ultrasaturated high gain distortion, at. I suspect they tweaked their fat drive to make it even more bass friendly. I find it to be an aggressive and abrasive od if that makes any sense. Its a staple in my rig, and it should be in yours too. The fat drive s multiple cascaded gain stages enable you to nail sounds ranging from bluesy overdrive to rich saturation, all while retaining musical dynamics and the original character of your. Building on the breakout success of the pigtronix fat drive, pigtronix is proud to introduce the bass fat drive. The pigtronix fat drive is an overdrive pedal, and the philosophers rock is a compressor with the added bonus of a switchable germaniumdistortion circuit.
I bought it to replace my ds1 which i always found was too thin and really didnt have enough headroom in comparison to my other. Pigtronix now intends to set a new standard for tube distortion in stompbox form with the all new fat drive pedal at winter namm 2012. The company, product and service names used in this web site are for identification purposes only. Enjoy the lowest prices and best selection of pigtronix effects pedals at guitar center. The fat drives multiple cascaded gain stages enable you to nail sounds ranging from bluesy overdrive. According to the pigtronix website, the fat drive is an all analog tube sound overdrive.
The bass fat drive leverages pigtronix cmos clipping concept to sculpt a larger than life sound. A demo of the pigtronix bass fat drive, using fingers. Building on the breakout success of the pigtronix fat drive, we are proud to introduce the bass fat drive. The pigtronix fat drive pedal is designed to have a tubelike overdrive. Pigtronix aims to distilled the essential soul of tube overdrive into the straightforward yet remarkably flexible design of the new fat drive. Pigtronix fat drive tubesound overdrive guitar effects. The fat drives multiple cascaded gain stages enable you to nail sounds ranging from bluesy.
The pigtronix fat drive is a multi stage distortionoverdrive capable of some serious tube tone. If this new pedal improves upon this, they might have a hit. Not that it cant be smooth but it is an in your face type overdrive. In a world where you cant swing a guitar without knocking 10 tubescreamer clones off the shelf, new entrants to the oversaturated overdrive market had better have something new to say. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Pigtronix fat drive tubesound overdrive guitar effect pedalpigtronix fat drive tubesound overdrive guitar effects pedal is thick and juicy, dripping with. Musical instruments store with guaranteed lowest prices and free shipping on most orders cascio interstate music.
The xl fat drive is sensitive to your playing dynamics and will respond musically no matter how soft or hard you push it. Finetuned for low end muscle and grind, the bass fat drive slams your amp with all analog, tube emulated overdrive that ranges from soft. Revisiting the pigtronix fat drive do i still like the. Unbeatable prices and next day delivery from the uks no1 instrument store. Pigtronix bass fat drive bod building on the breakout success of the pigtronix fat drive, we are proud to introduce the bass fat drive. On this very special edition of stompbox saturday on a tuesday well revisit the very first pedal i ever demoed for the show. Pigtronix has introduced the allnew fat drive pedal, which sets a new standard for tube distortion in stompbox form. Being that this is the fat drive, then, we ought to assume that this stylish little overdrive will do everything it takes to match that ambitious philosophy. Pigtronix bass fat drive overdrive testedworking effect pedal fx.
Multiple cascaded gain stages enable the fat drive to cover sounds ranging from slightly overdriven to rich saturation, all while retaining musical dynamics and the original character of your instrument. Pigtronix fat drive heres an interesting one from pigtronix. Finetuned for low end muscle and grind, the bass fat drive slams your amp with all analog, tube emulated overdrive that ranges from soft and warm to ripping high gain apocalyptic thunder. Fat drive section the volume control sets the overall output level.
You can also operate the pedal using your own 9v power supply, though you lose a lot of the headroom and transparency that are such a strong suit for the fat drive. Multiple cascaded gain stages enable the fat drive to cover. Get the best deals on pigtronix guitar effects pedals when you shop the largest online selection at. Pigtronix fat drive xl combines two of our most powerful circuits into a single, high performance, dual footswitch stompbox. Like many overdrives, the fat promises tubelike crunch. It says gain, it says tone, it must be an overdrive. Multiple cascaded gain stages enable the fat drive to cover sounds ranging from slightly overdriven to rich saturation, all while retaining musical dynamics and the. Used pigtronix fat drive tube sound overdrive effect pedal.
This company continues to impress me by the quality and the inovative character of their products. Easy to use controls include volume, gain, tone, and a more switch. Both sections of this pedal are true bypass, allowing you to use either circuit independently or combine both for a massive tone. Pigtronix fat drive is thick and juicy, dripping with touch sensitive overdrive that responds to every nuance of your playing style. Pigtronix will mod the pedal for a cascading drive option as youve suggested, but much like the empress multidrive, the disnortions fuzz and drive circuits are parallel which allows for a lot of toneshaping. This product is not manufactured or distributed by pigtronix or absara audio, llc, maker of the pigtronix fat drive. This awesome tone machine combines the incredible sustain from the pigtronix philosophers rock, with the sweet analog tone of the fat drive overdrive pedal. In short, it sounds pretty kickass and versatile in terms of how much gain you can get. Im intrigued by the low pass filter the tone circuit engages if you turn counterclockwise. Fulltone ocd obsessive compulsive drive overdrive guitar effects pedal. Yep, thats definitely the pigtronix fat drive in the effect pedals realm.
So if you want a treble edge to bite over a woofy lowgain od for a solo or a chorus you have it on tap. The pedals name represents the essence of the pigtronix mission, and its unique overdrive circuit hits the mark in every way. Pigtronix fat philosopher compressionsustainoverdrive. Brand new and in the box pigtronix fat drive is thick and juicy, dripping with touch sensitive overdrive that responds to every nuance of your playing style. Both pedals have very simple and straightforward control layouts. Pigtronix bass fat drive effects pedal musicians friend. Theres a switch for adding harmonic germanium distortion, a blend control for parallel compression, and an fx loop insert placed between the compression and overdrive stages. Bass fat drive building on the breakout success of the pigtronix fat drive, we are proud to introduce the bass fat drive.
All the gain stages make for natural compression and tubelike tone without using clipping diodes. The bass fat drive is everything you would expect and more. Pigtronix bass fat drive overdrive building on the breakout success of the pigtronix fat drive, we are proud to introduce the bass fat drive. All in all, this is a clean and responsive overdrive that retains clarity and low end, something a lot of them are missing. Finetuned for low end muscle and grind, the bass fat drive slams your amp with all analog, tube emulated overdrive that ranges from soft and warm to. It uses a tl072 to push a cd4049, which is followed by another tl072 pushing a ratesque tone control.
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