Hand-made in Finland premium quality overdrive pedal.
Mad Professor Sky Blue Overdrive (SBOD) is a very unique four knob
pedal designed to overdrive already distorted amplifiers as well
as provide light overdrive or soft distortion on clean sounds.
Special feature on this pedal is that you can adjust the feel and
dynamics with Texture and Z knobs.
The Texture allows changing how and when circuit distorts as well
as adjusting overall EQ.
The Z is a control that creates an adjustable load to the instrument
connected to the SBOD input. With standard passive pickup loaded
guitars dialing this control will adjust the upper resonant peak
of the pickups. It also affects the taper of the volumecontrol on
the guitar, adjusting how the tone cleans up when using the guitar
volume knob.
Like all Mad Professor pedals SBOD is hand made in Finland using
only premium components, to give years of trouble free operation
with superb musical tone.
Controls
VOLUME:sets the output volume of the effect
DISTORT.: controls the distortion or overdrive
effect
Z: is a control that creates an adjustable load
to the instrument connected to the SBOD input. With standard guitars
dialing this control will adjust the upper resonant peak of the
pickups and also affect the taper of the volumecontrol on the guitar
for easy setting of clean to distorted just from the volume control
of guitar. This effect is masked if SBOD is driven by a buffered
output such as from another guitar pedal or from active pickups
TEXTURE: allows changing how and when the circuit
distorts as well as adjusting overall EQ. Dialing this control appears
to adjust midrange, while it gives this impression from adjusting
compression. Turning CCW gives more saturated effect that is easily
distorted, turning CW gives a slight treble boost and less compression
(compression is used here to describe density of distortion since
overall sound may be distorted throughout the dial)
Electrical specifications
Supply voltage range: 7,5 to 18VDC Current consumption at 9VDC: 5 mA Input inpedance: 227K TO 10kOhm's (adjustable with
the Z-control) Output impedance: 251K Ohm's Complete bypass (true bypass)