Bjorn at BJFE Pedals (also known as the Mad Professor) cooked me up this little number... it is pure Punkrock for my mind. Somber and yet satisfying... tons of crunch. My favorite setting is volume cranked (11), distortion cranked (11)... and the treble set around half way (5). Absolutely no pretensions... just like Sid or Johnny would have wanted. What the doctor (professor) ordered, and more! This is all not surprising of course, since it did come from the mind of the Mad Professor, who has lots of practice working in his lab with his soldering iron. This is seldom true when purchasing other pedals though... how many times have we all been on Ebay, and seen some amazing looking pedal... maybe it has some acid etched design, or possibly it is sandblasted or even done in some groovy paint scheme. Such pedals are always described with superlatives such as 'Amazing Jimi Vibe', or 'Stevie Ray in a box'... or possibly 'Amazing metal crunch meets Slash of Guns and Roses'. So we order it, and wait the long days for our EBay purchase to arrive. And you guessed... we plug it in and .... that standard generic distortion that so many pedals out there have. Not so with this little black box. It's a 'keeper'... and is going next to some of my other pedals that are irreplaceable to me... like BJFE's LGW, his BBO (Baby Blue Overdrive), and of course my Red Llama, by Way Huge.... oh, and too many other BJFE creations to mention... but I might be doing so in future posts. (Almost certainly for sure!).
