MAESTRO

TOTAL GUITAR MAY 2022
88
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THE TG TEST
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ARE GIBSON’S PEDALS AS
GOOD AS THEIR GUITARS?
W
ell, it’s Gibson isn’t it? You’d expect a company
synonymous with quality guitars to come up
with some quality guitar pedals and they
haven’t let us down. While we might want to
take slight issue with the size of the pedals
when it’s sometimes a squeeze to  t everything you want on
a pedalboard, they are certainly distinctive and reasonably
priced. In terms of operability and sound quality we have
no qualms - all do exactly what’s expected of them and
that 2-in-1 capability confers a versatility that some of the
competition may lack. That’s particularly true in the case
of the fuzz and drive pedals, where the two voicings will
add genuine fl exibility your signal chain. Likewise, two
distinct voices in a chorus pedal is no bad thing and,
combined with that wet/dry mix knob, the Comet covers
a lot of space. The Discovery won’t suit tap tempo freaks but
it can hold its own in the ‘analogue delay with modulation’
genre. So what next? Well, we don’t actually know, but there
are several pedal genres that haven’t been covered by the
brand and we are keeping our  ngers crossed that we’ll soon
be hearing the psychedelic sweep of a PS-1 phaser...
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