hashimoto's Strymon Pedalboard

• Noiseless
• Enough Ports
• Can be Extended
• The only thing I do not like , you have to pull the plug, no Switch on and off

• Well known Dirty , Aggressive Distortion, hard clipping , with Texture in Sound Its an dirty , aggressive Distortion thats why its called Rat can be used to create very aggressiv Sounds, nice for Rock, Punk, Grunge ...
• goes from Hard Distortion up to Fuzz-ish like Distortion
• Very Grid-ish, Distortion
• Cheap
• Very Robust
• Can be seen in Dark Environments, thanks to the Logo with Phosphorescent Glow
• Simple Distortion, Filter (Tone), Volume Knobs
• Good to Add and Stack onto other Pedals also OK to Texturing and Granulate other Sounds in some cases
• 9V, Mono Only

Its a Tubescreamer in Middel Troggle Switch, with 2 more Overdrive Voicings It has 3 Settings per Troggle Switch 1st Setting is kinda Bluesdriverish Overdrive 2nd Setting is kinda Tubescreamer 3rd Setting is kinda Transparent Overdrive It sounds Good on all 3 Positions, also when 1 and 3 are a bit similar and an Overdrive Voicing and the middel is the pure Tubescreamer. It can be loud , so also be used as a Boost.

When the Plumes is used alone on Low Level settings the Volume is very different when you change the position, what can be a dislike, but easy to understand because the middel Position is the pure Tubescreamer the 1st postion is quieter, Middel Position has much more Volume where the Tubescreamer is and the Last Position is similar to 1st Position, but even a bit more quieter. But when you run this into another Pedal after the Plumes like the Rat, the Volume will be pretty the same on all Positions, also when you run the Pedal on higher Volume the difference when troggeling in Volume is not that much anymore present.

On a Clean Fender Rod Hot Deluxe IV, my fav. settings are: Troggel Switch Middel Tube Screamer, Level 8:00, Gain 13:00, Tone 15:00 with low output Pick ups like a Jazzmaster Middel Position, the Hot Rod Rod sounds some kinda Dumble Steel String Singer Amp kindish. I like all about this pedal , only not that Volume changes that much with the troggle Switch, but it is acceptable and to understand because the middel position is something very else and a Tube screamer and does push the Amp more then the other settings with the Vocings and you mostly will not switch the troggle in the middel of a song or something, so I am fine with this , also when I was a bit shocked and dissapointed about that, when had it on the 1st time.