Conquering Dystopia – Conquering Dystopia

Limited edition signature

Keith Merrow Limited Edition Signature Overdrive POSTED ON AUGUST 21, 2013 POSTED IN GAIN BASED, SIGNATURE SERIES BY DENNIS MOLLAN Keith Merrow Limited Edition Signature Overdrive Introducing the Keith Merrow Limited Edition Signature Overdrive Pedal.

Normally I would tell you how awesome this pedal is, and what makes it so special… but I think Keith does a much better job than I could so heres Keith Merrow to tell you why his pedal is so cool:

Pro Tone has created a limited run of Merrow Overdrive pedals. I’ve used the Pro Tone Dead Horse pedal in front of my amps for a long time and love it. This pedal is based on that platform, but with some refinements based on my recommendations. Because I use this pedal mainly to tighten up a high gain amp, we made this pedal with a bit LESS gain than other TubeScreamer type pedals. It’s tighter, cleaner, with better articulation and clarity. The gain that it has is usable, and not overkill. In addition to being great on the gain channel of an amp, it’s also killer on the clean channel. The overdrive is rather musical, and is capable of nice rock and blues tones. It’s very versatile, and can do anything from rock to modern death metal, depending on how you use it. Keith Merrow

Here’s Ola Englund of Six Feet Under, Feared, The Haunted using the Merrow Overdrive:

Features:

1st 50 built will be autographed by Keith ALL 150 of them will include a download of the upcoming release from Conquering Dystopia, Keiths project with the legendary Jeff Loomis Gain, Tone and Volume controls Operates on a standard 9 volt (negative tip) BOSS style adapter True Hardwire Bypass with grounded input for noise free operation Stomp switch built to withstand years of hard stomping shows Durable aluminum housing Super-Bright LED for easy onstage identification Proudly built by hand in he U.S.A. OUT OF PRODUCTION

Founding member and bass guitarist of 3 decade running Cannibal Corpse, Alex Webster, recently posted to his twitter account that he was using the Seymour Duncan Studio Bass pedal for his studio recordings.

For his recording sessions with Conquering Dystopia, his signal chain released through social media and is as follows.

"Signal Chain- Spector Euro5LX, Seymour Duncan Studio Bass Compressor, Darkglass B7K, to Interface"

QUOTE "The Studio Bass helps make my bass sound punchy and consistent, even when I'm playing really fast passages at low tunings. It's also very transparent. It does the job without the compression being obvious. It's a great addition to my rig!"

All guitars were the album takes, reamped through the 100w 6L6 version of the head. The cabs are Hesu 2x12 cabs with Celestion V30 speakers. Drum mix by Mark Lewis at Audiohammer, song remix by Keith Merrow. Filmed at Jeff's studio in Seattle.