MI Audio Blues Pro Overdrive Pedal
Michael Ibrahim on the MI Audio Blues Pro Overdrive Pedal:
The Blues Pro vs. the Blue Boy
So why release the Blues Pro Pedal if I already have its bigger brother, the Blue Boy? Well, despite the shared lineage, the two overdrive pedals ended up being quite different. It's no nonsense circuitry is very 'immediate'. There are no internal trimmers, so you get a very easy to use pedal, with the classic configuration of Gain, Tone and Volume. The Blues Pro Overdrive is a little bit more compressed, which give the pedal a bit of extra punch. It also sounds throatier than the Blue Boy in high gain settings. The tone control is very intuitive to use (it's much closer to the Blue Boy's brightness control). It makes a great compliment to the Blue Boy, but its true soul-mate is the Crunch Box. The two pedals are a natural extension of each other.
Listen to the MI Audio Blues Pro Overdrive Pedal Sound Samples
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Blues Pro Overdrive Pedal
Low Gain |
Neck pickup, gain=25%, volume=50%, tone=50% |
This sample starts off with the clean guitar and then the pedal is switched on. Notice how the pedal really fattens up your tone, due to the 6db of bass boost that I built into the output section of the pedal.
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Blues Pro Pedal
Medium Gain |
Neck/bridge pickup2, gain=50%, volume=50%, tone=50% |
In this sample, you start to get a bit more grit from the sound. At this stage, you're getting to the limits of the standard Tube Screamer design in terms of gain. There is a switch from neck to bridge pickup about half way through the sample.
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MI Audio Blues Pro
High Gain |
Neck pickup, gain=100%, volume=50%, tone=50%
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Serious crunch here! And Fat! |
