I've finished putting the
Pinnacle 2 through my playing rigours, some stuff:
- this is the revised Pinnacle pedal (hence the '2'), in a dimension which would appeal to pedal board users
- the pedal has the primary aim of replicating Van Halen's Marshall brown sound but let it not put you off because for someone not keen on this signature tone, I find the overall offering very appealing
- the BOOST feature here adds more intensity to the overdrive to such an extent you'd hear distortion grittiness instead of more drive so it's really a mode switch which would take you from overdrive to distortion. Judging from the mere change in tonal output, I believe it's wired to be post-drive, giving the output a bump in volume as well. It also alters the overall tone character, giving it more depth in overall EQ- to the rest of us, it sounds 'fatter'
- Mr. Wampler took time to give us a pedal which has a good palette of tonal offerings; the TONE/ CONTOUR controls are capable of serving the vintage & modern tone mongers alike in terms of EQ. These are in addition to the immediate tone-shaping flick switch which takes the user into the aforementioned vintage & contemporary settings in terms of drive character
So much fanfare, can the Pinnalce 2 serve the metal dweebs?
- immediate answer: NO. It's not an intense distortion type, not in the same league as your favourite (BOSS) Metal Zone
- but wait till you attach a mild overdrive/ distortion pedal between your guitar & this pedal (the reason you see my Coolcat overdrive in the pic above); listen to the heightened saturation & intensity (but still not the metal-type ferocity) of the final output. The Pinnacle 2 accepts other mild drive type pedals very well. If you've tried the Sound Drive amps (especially the SG612R) & like what you hear in terms of drive, then you'd like what this red menace has to offer
What's that? You don't have a clue what
the Brown Sound is all about? It's time you find out, you're 30 years behind...
I've finished putting the Pinnacle 2 through my playing rigours, some stuff:
4 comments:
I bought the version before..slightly bigger and 'gain' switch is foot-type one.
Tried the new one (like yours)..I dunno but I noticed there's a slight reduction in gain. Mine seems to have more gain wif the knob full.
As for volume, yup dis one is better. U dun have to crak beyond 12'oclok just to get a balance between ur clean and dirty sound.
the default drive offering is acceptable to me, i'm using another drive source to boost its performance so having insufficient gain here is quite inapplicable :-)
i bought the last remaining plextortion ver 2 frm mikey today.
tried it yesterday, was hesitating whether to get it or not. eventually bought it todae. its a marshall amp str8 out of the box man. the tones are really juicy n very amp like. my dream tone has finally arrived in my hands. used to own a crunch box. but the plextortion simply replaces it without much thought. the vol boost was the highlight of it all. cuz i dun realli like to boost my lead tone by stackin drives or boostin wif eq pedal. the color juz changes. but with the boost on the plextortion. its a dream come true.. yeap! tts juz my few cents worth =)
i was drawn to that one as well but i'm your opposite- i like to boost/cascade distortion, the Plextortion sounds superb on its own but it's not agreeable in use with other drive/distortion units.
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