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The Sobbat Drive Breaker DB-4R is an overdrive effects pedal crafted to elevate your guitar's tone with precision and style. Designed for guitarists who crave versatility, the DB-4R offers a dynamic range of overdrive sounds, from subtle warmth to full-bodied crunch. Its analog circuitry ensures that your guitar's natural character is preserved, while the pedal's intuitive controls allow you to dial in the perfect amount of gain, tone, and output level.

The DB-4R is engineered to respond beautifully to your playing dynamics, providing a touch-sensitive experience that feels organic and expressive. With its robust build and high-quality components, this pedal is built to withstand the rigors of both stage and studio environments. Whether you're playing blues, rock, or any genre in between, the Sobbat Drive Breaker DB-4R delivers the rich, harmonically complex tones that are essential for any guitarist's pedalboard.

Key Features:

Classic overdrive tones with dynamic response
Analog circuitry for natural sound preservation
Intuitive controls for gain, tone, and output level
Durable construction suitable for live and studio use
Versatile enough for various musical genres

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Bypass	true bypass
Analog/Digital	analog

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Sobbat DriveBreaker-4R(DB-4R) function mode.

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Sobbat DriveBreaker-4R (DB-4R) DB-2R Mode with boost

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DB-4R - LOW-B control

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The Edge

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Used for "New York" (as stated in this January 2001 Guitar Player interview) and live for the solo on "Until the End of the World" (as mentioned in this April/May 2007 Australian Guitar interview with The Edge's guitar tech, Dallas Schoo, on page 28 of the issue). It was used on the Elevation Tour (as seen in AudioFile's feature "U2 - Wired for Sound"), the Vertigo Tour (as is visible in this Guitar World feature at 2:07) and the U2 360° Tour (as is visible in this still of a live performance and as specified in this Music Radar interview with Schoo (pictured)).

Guitar Player, January 2001, "Basic Instincts"

GP: What were your main fuzzboxes?

Edge: The Ampeg, a Tube Screamer for a good general distortion without being too in-your-face, and an old Manny's Fuzz--which is really extreme. I also used this really obscure Japanese pedal called the Sobart [sic] for the heavy sections of "New York." That pedal is so extreme. You step on it and all hell breaks loose. On "When I Look at the World", I'm using an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer for that mad distorted tone.

Australian Guitar, April/May 2007

And the Sobbat Drive Breaker with that big thumping bass distortion, where does that get used?

The Edge walked in with that. It's a Japanese device. Edge, once in a while, would want a distortion twist, you know, and he will walk in with things and I get to walk in with things. But if you walk in with things [something] and Bono hears [it, he] goes "Oh my God, roll the tape!". And that's what happened. We used that on the solo on "Until The End Of The World". It's such an offensive little box that only works on a solo at the very end - it doesn't work all through a song.

AudioFile, "U2 - Wired for Sound