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Rockett Pedals Archer

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Overdrive and boost in one easy-to-use pedal.

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James Bay

At 2:50 they talk about his Archer clean overdrive
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Adam Granduciel

you can see the Archer on the left Pedalboard
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Lzzy Hale

"Obviously I have my Archer, which I'm totally in love with right now, just for my distortion," says Lzzy Hale, at 12:30, in this rig rundown.
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Nick Johnston

In this Instagram post Nick holds a Rockett Pedals Archer in front of a Friedman Buxom Betty Combo and simply states "Deadly combo".
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Audley Freed

Nashville legend Audley Freed (Black Crowes, Sheryl Crow, Cry of Love) shows us his pedalboard at a recent event honoring Joe Walsh at the Experience Music Project in Seattle
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Chris McQueen

Comments of lymax: "I believe it was Rockett Archer for drive and MXR carbon copy for the quick delay, and an old Fender spring reverb unit the studio has. Also I was going through two amps with a very tiny bit of tremolo at different speeds for some extra thickness. The delay might have been EHX memory man ping-ponging between the amps, can't remember now."
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Jonny Two Bags Wickersham

Jonny talks about his effects pedals in this video.
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Jonny Wickersham

http://www.premierguitar.com/ext/resources/images/content/2015_09/Rig-Rundowns/Social-Distortion/Jonny-FX-WEB.jpg Hands-down the pedal freak of the band, Wickersham travels heavy with three stompboxes—a Boss TU-2 Tuner, an MXR Micro Amp that he utilizes as a clean boost to push the amp a bit more while still retaining the guitar’s natural tonal characteristics, and a J. Rockett Audio Designs Archer that he uses as a fairly-transparent dirt box that fills his tone out and adds harmonic richness.
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Kristian Niemann

As seen in Kristian's Instagram photo.
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Daniel Macal

Punches you in your face, like a blunt arrow. Or bruce Lee
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Carl-Viktror

Guitarist, producer and composer.
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Bryan Laurenson

Bryan's boost/overdrive pedal. Photo taken at Copeland's show on 11/23/16 in Seattle.
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Greg Dulli

at 52:18 we can see it on the pedal board.
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Description

Overdrive and boost in one easy-to-use pedal.

The Archer is a versatile overdrive/boost with amazing headroom that is designed to help you cut through the mix. The Archer is sort of a two-in-one pedal. It can be used as just a clean boost by turning the gain all the way down. As you introduce gain it will attenuate the clean signal but there is a magical blend in between that you will find. Experiment with the settings and be careful with the output¦.this dude is loud!

Output: The volume control is very powerful and drives fairly hard relatively early. This allows you to hit the front end of an amp or pedal to get very aggressive or crystal clear.
Treble: The Treble control is a very effective EQ that goes from dark to a very "chimey", bright tone. It's great to create that midrange clarity.
Gain: The gain also acts as a mixer control between the clean boost and the gain. Turn the gain all the way down and your output becomes the volume for all clean boost.
Start blending in the gain control and it will simultaneously reduce clean volume and introduce gain...somewhere in the middle is the sweet spot or mix of the two.

Power Supply
All J. Rockett Audio Designs pedals operate off of the standard BOSS type 9 volt adapter or a single 9-volt battery. The power input is a 5.5 mm x 2.1 mm jack with the positive voltage on the outer sleeve. Using an external power supply will automatically disconnect the battery. Disconnect the input jack to preserve battery life when not in use or when not used with an appropriate, external power supply.

Specifications

Weight: 1.6 lb.
Dimensions: 7.25" x 5.125" x 2.55"
2.1mm x 5.5 mm tip/negative plug

3 Rockett Pedals Archer Reviews

ziga_janezic

148

One of the best

I love overdrive pedals and this one is a gem among them.

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9 months ago
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curtis_jeffs

148

Best drive Ive ever used.

Awesome pedal with a huge volume boost if needed. Design is a little flawed as it's easy to knock the knobs with your feet but I guess its the sound that matters and in that case it is flawless.

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over 3 years ago
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jimmarchi1 Moderator

get some fun tack from the arts an crafts store and use it to fix the pointers in place with your preferred settings.

over 3 years ago

louis_de_roo

133

half sized klon

if you're after a klon-type drive, get the archer. It's built like a tank, decently sized and priced and it delivers all of the complex lo-gain drive you'd want.

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almost 2 years ago
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