Steel String Pedal Review

The lenny is a good mid boost clean boost but that s all it is.

Steel string pedal review. The lenny is a good mid boost clean boost but that s all it is. The mythology that surrounds alexander dumble s creations has led to an entire cottage industry of builders trying to replicate that sound but without the five figure price tag. Then i put it between the stratocaster and amp and got a whole new guitar. I had super high expectations when i ordered the steel string clean drive.

I prefer the pedal with 18 volts. It truely is a great pedal. If you don t use the top two strings and pedal steels existed before the top two strings were introduced your 10 string is effectively an 8 string already. The difference between the 3 seymour duncan pick ups is clear and more pronounced than without the steel string pedal.

I bought the vertex steel string clean drive and also the lenny boost pedal. The steel string singer is a clean single channel amp with reverb and several tone sculpting features including three channel eq low and high filters three tone switches bright deep and rock jazz reverb with send and return controls and volume and master controls. So steel string od plus fender amp equals one dumble. The steel string clean drive feels like an amp it s powerful and clean with just a bit of breakup when pushed.

After trying the steel string in the effects channel i did not like it. Vertex effects steel string clean drive guitar effects pedal guitar and bass pedal recreates the tonality of the dumble steel string singer amplifier 4 6 x 3 2 x 1 8 3 0 out of 5 stars 11 previous. I had read tons of awesome reviews and watched several demo s on youtube and it seemed to be exactly what i was looking for. It truely is a great pedal.

That having been said the 10 string pedal steel started out with 8 strings and the two re entrant strings in e9 were added later. It will work on any amp to varying degrees. I really tried to love this pedal. The sweetness of the sound went way up.

Vertex effects take on a dumble steel string singer is billed as a clean drive but i found the latter descriptor to be more apt in addition to the volume and gain controls there s a filter knob that. The dumble steel string singer amp at times you can find it here or here. The steel string clean drive feels like an amp it s powerful and clean with just a bit of breakup when pushed. I bought the vertex steel string clean drive and also the lenny boost pedal.

Again crazy but it too works. Crazy as it sounds it works the pedal has a volume control and a gain and a third knob is a filter to voice whatever fender you own to match the real dumble.