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BLUESBREAKER PEDALS

Please don't cry. Original Bluesbreaker amps are VERY hard to find, unless you want to sell your house and buy it from a specialised dealer. I have heard some good things about the reissue, but it is still an expensive amp. So what is left for 16 years old suburb bluesboys? This cheap second hand pedal. And strangely enough, you are not far from the real thing: this device behaves more like an amp than like a stompbox. When the gain is on noon, you get a nearly clean sound with some coloured, not far from the clean JTM45 sound. And when you max it, you get a slight, natural overdrive reminiscent of the fabulous English GE KT66 valves. However, even maxed, this pedal has less distortion than my favourite JTM45. Is my example of this stompbox special ? Anyway, it really is a useful sound for me, smoothing any big amp just like you changed the whole set of tube with KT66. A very surprising miming pedal that deserves its glorious monicker.

Here is the sequel. If you consider this pedal by itself, it is a very good overdrive pedal, with a good smooth sound, natural frequency settings and everything. The boost option is quite disappointing: I was waiting for some kind of lightly distorted boost a la Fuse Blower, but it only is a clear , transparent booster. But the "worst" thing about this pedal is that it lost his BluesBreaker flavour somewhere on its way to India ( besides, it is really cool to manufacture pedals in India. While a little late in History, just imagine what it could have been in the Ravi-Shankar/Beatles/Tablas/Katmandu/incense-sticks/brown-rice era ...). A good pedal on its own but no BluesBreaker here.