Random Hero
Active member
Your thoughts? What amps are you using it into?
Mesa\Kramer
New member
Yes.
I bought one 2 months ago.
I am using it through a Marshall DSL 50.
I Run on the red channel (lead 1) with the gain set to about 5.
Pedal is amazing, but almost a little too much to use just as a boost as i do.
The clean Boost section adds awesome punch and thickness without adding much overall gain.
The Drive/crunch stage is so much, that added on top of my amp gain (which is mid gain at best) i can not set the Gain level above (1) on the pedal with out massive feedback.
The 3rd gain stage i set about 3 and sometimes hit for super liquid leads.
I bought this to replace my Bad Monkey, and overall i am happy with thr results.
I'm sure you've seen this Vid before? This is what sold me on it.
(He's using almost clean set amps on this demo)
I bought one 2 months ago.
I am using it through a Marshall DSL 50.
I Run on the red channel (lead 1) with the gain set to about 5.
Pedal is amazing, but almost a little too much to use just as a boost as i do.
The clean Boost section adds awesome punch and thickness without adding much overall gain.
The Drive/crunch stage is so much, that added on top of my amp gain (which is mid gain at best) i can not set the Gain level above (1) on the pedal with out massive feedback.
The 3rd gain stage i set about 3 and sometimes hit for super liquid leads.
I bought this to replace my Bad Monkey, and overall i am happy with thr results.
I'm sure you've seen this Vid before? This is what sold me on it.
(He's using almost clean set amps on this demo)
Michi
Active member
I used one about 6 years or so ago, played many a rehearsal with it plus I think two gigs. The amp was a Crate BlueVoodoo 50w, PlexiTone in front of the clean channel. Worked great for the stuff we did (covers, Maiden, Accept, Running Wild and the like). It was my friend's backup rig that I played.
I also bought one (and sold it as well) a few weeks ago just to A/B it with my Radial Bones London dual distortion. To my wooden ears they sound almost the same and I find the Radial better for my use b/c the two channels are voiced a tad differently plus the mids are stronger on channel 2. If I didn't have the Radial the PlexiTone would've been a keeper for sure! Just needed to flip it quick haha! Both of them were running in the front of a clean plexi clone.
I also bought one (and sold it as well) a few weeks ago just to A/B it with my Radial Bones London dual distortion. To my wooden ears they sound almost the same and I find the Radial better for my use b/c the two channels are voiced a tad differently plus the mids are stronger on channel 2. If I didn't have the Radial the PlexiTone would've been a keeper for sure! Just needed to flip it quick haha! Both of them were running in the front of a clean plexi clone.
A
aftec
Active member
I have one and gigging with it regularly. It hates amps with too many highs and lows (Smaller Fender amps with bright on = is instant hate). If it's a neutral amp, it sounds stellar. Tried it against a Wample Super Plextortion, Radial Hot Brittish and I still have the Plexitone. Running it into my clean channel of my 5153-100 nails the blue channel tone 98%. I'm not using the Crunch channel of my Rivera Fandango since I have it.
thiswaythatway
Well-known member
They're great for all those Justin Timberlake tones.
Red_Label
Active member
I've owned two of them. The first one I ran into the Blue channel (set on Plexi mode) of my XTC Classic and it was awesome. Nailed those early VH tones. Now that I no longer have the XTC, the second one is still trying to find it's spot. The Plexitone definitely prefers a clean to hairy amp signal, with the pedal doing all the rest. For a boost to add some punch and hair, I MUCH prefer my OCD.
But if you're looking for a fly-gig pedal that you could count on being able to get some great rock tones, even if they had you running into a backline with Fenders or Roland JC120 amps, the Plexitone would be hard to beat. I A/B'd it against an early Radial Hot British and they were very close. I may have very slightly prefered the Radial tonewise, but the features on the Plexitone (solo boost and two channels) beat the Radial so it got returned to the store.
I also used to play my Plexitone through my Fender Twin reverb and it sounded really good. I ran into a Radial ABY, then out of the ABY, then out of the A side of the Y pedal into the PT and then into one channel set on dark. And then out of the B side of the Y pedal straight into the other channel set on bright for cleans. Then I could just switch back and forth between channels using the ABY pedal and it was like having a great switcher. I could have lived and gigged with that setup just fine for classic rock, country, etc. But the XTC still spanked that setup for those genres and more so that's why I sold it all.
But if you're looking for a fly-gig pedal that you could count on being able to get some great rock tones, even if they had you running into a backline with Fenders or Roland JC120 amps, the Plexitone would be hard to beat. I A/B'd it against an early Radial Hot British and they were very close. I may have very slightly prefered the Radial tonewise, but the features on the Plexitone (solo boost and two channels) beat the Radial so it got returned to the store.
I also used to play my Plexitone through my Fender Twin reverb and it sounded really good. I ran into a Radial ABY, then out of the ABY, then out of the A side of the Y pedal into the PT and then into one channel set on dark. And then out of the B side of the Y pedal straight into the other channel set on bright for cleans. Then I could just switch back and forth between channels using the ABY pedal and it was like having a great switcher. I could have lived and gigged with that setup just fine for classic rock, country, etc. But the XTC still spanked that setup for those genres and more so that's why I sold it all.