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NPD - Vintage R from CraigAmps

Nicholas-L

So today ? this arrived...

So time get going I need to go test this!!!!!!!!

arjunmenon

Congrats Nick!
I've got a Dual Drive on order. We should definitely meet up and kick out the jams ?

Nicholas-L

Thank you. Thank you. ?. So first observations. Built like a tank... ok a mini tank ? ... Art work looks superb. Sounds great. It's an OD but with a little bit more hair on its balls than a typical TS. Furry like a Wooki :roflmao:. What I like about it just so far is that it isn't as compressed as a TS. The tone knob takes you from smooth and mellow to harsh and it has a great usable sweep to it and I found my sweet spot roughly around the 1 o' clock area. The Drive knob is where the fun started ? ... keep in mind it is an OD not a Dist so best used in conjunction with a driven amp or to kick another drive pedal up a notch. So with an amp set to clean you can add some furry flavor to your cleans. Tune your amp to a nice on the verge of break up to crunch and you can dial in a nice bluesy to rock rhythm tone. Crank your amp and you can get that sweet sustaining solo sound and imagine your it having more punch to it. I will try to upload a sound sample or four when I get a moment to record something. I'm impressed so far with it ? and it's going to permanently go onto my empty pedal board.

Nicholas-L

OK here are some sound clips of the pedal in use. Here and there I switch the pedal off to give you what the amp sound is and then the pedal to the mix. I do roll off on the volume as well just to show how responsive the pedal can be. I recorded three clips to demonstrate some of the ways it can be used. In the first clip the amp is set to a clean (breaks up if you dig in a bit) and then I have the pedal set to add just a bit of flavor. Then near the end I crank the gain on the pedal. The other two clips speak for it self.

Gear used is an Ibanez JS100 --> Craig Vintage R ---> Guitar rig Soldano (Sounds close to my real one but the neighbors wouldn't appreciate me cranking it at the time of night I did this).

Clean with some flavor and grit
https://www.box.com/s/1e56edad0098c18f348b

Clean cranked with grit
https://www.box.com/s/922148cc4848ca4034c0

Hi Gain with flavor
https://www.box.com/s/760f1f59d38842bd8039