adam_michel's Reviews

Trigger Stems, Change Patches, Simple Keyboard (Pad Mode)

Great foot controller for controlling stems on any DAW (Pro Tools, Logic, Reaper, Ableton). Remote preset control for true-bypass loopers and MIDI effects. This pedal is very versatile and makes live changes extremely easy. It has a "Pad" mode which allows you to "play" soft synthesizers for pads in any key. Play pads with your foot and ambient guitar with your hands!!!

Pocket Full Of British (AC-30) Rock

This is a great little amp that is modeled after the AC-30 sound. I use it as a practice amp at home, but also take it with me and keep it in my bag as a spare amplifier. Mic'd up, this little guy can keep up with the best of them and sounds great doing it!!!

Poor Mans Dumble???

(With Mods, Some Say Yes)

No More Tapdancing!!!

The One Control OC-10 is a great true-bypass looper. It can operate in two modes: Preset Modes, and Bypass Mode.

In Preset mode, the OC-10 has 70 presets available, allowing you to have more than enough presets for any gig. It also has MIDI capability, so you can control your MIDI enabled pedals (Eventide, Strymon, etc…). The OC-10 can even be made to function as an A/B/Y amp switcher, and it can do channel switching.

Bypass Mode: the OC-10 functions as any other true bypass looper. The switches on the pedal are 1 to 1 with each loop.

I really like the fact that the OC-10 has MIDI In. This allows me to send MIDI patch change information from my laptop to my pedalboard and change my guitar patches in time with the stems/loops that we are playing along with. My only wish is that it could communicate on multiple MIDI channels. As of now, it's only on MIDI channel 1. Workable, but does limit some advanced MIDI control.

Pros: Total control, 70 presets, easy to program, built in buffer (has buffered input AND unbuffered input), tuner mute, expandable (can be chained with more One Control products to create a larger looper), can be controlled by other MIDI capable units via 5 DIN MIDI or Cat5e.

Cons: MIDI channel 1 only, no tap-tempo.

ProCo Rat Clone

This is an amazing overdrive/distortion pedal. It is extremely versatile. It has six settings: Rat, Turbo Rat, Asymmetrical Rat, Symmetrical Overdrive, Asymmetrical Overdrive, and Mosfet Overdrive. Mild OD to Medium-High Gain distortion, this pedal does it all.

BB-Preamp Clone

I've had this pedal for about a month now. So far, it is doing a pretty good job as a "transparent" OD. The jury is still out on this pedal for me, but so far, I am not complaining about it. The treble and bass controls are not flat at the 12 o'clock position, but with a little finagling the unity positions can be found (mine are 1 o'clock for treble, just under 3 o'clock for bass).

The Secret Weapon!!!

This pedal is extremely versatile. Clean boost, tone preamp, push your amp into overdrive, drive your pedals harder, it does it all and more. I always keep mine on and it adds great body to my tone.

Great Ross-Style Compressor

Clean and very versatile. Brings a nice sparkle and worth to your tone.

Great Compressor

It's very different than any other compressor I've used. Very light, great for always-one compression.

Decent noise suppressor.

Does the job well, but does suck tone a bit. It also cuts off some sustain, yet it's manageable. The trade-off of having no noise when not playing is worth it to me.