It's just that it allowed me an opportunity to evaluate how good or bad features of my ME unit are. Like I said above: I really like the Signa Drive. I can't find any solid info that that is or isn't the case.

As of today, I'm wondering if these units are really digital, or if they have 4558 and other chips in them along with digital and non-digital circuitry depending on the effect used. What I'm left thinking about is how faulty the common wisdom is that seems to disregard ME units. Even so, I'm not entirely sure a better trained ear would always agree in a blind live sample. If I had to say one was 'ballsier' than the other, I'd give it to the Super Signa Drive. So, I did.Ĭomparing them back to back using various levels of gain through a clean channel on the RD at volume level 2, then 4 with the TMB in the 5 positions, I was struck by how similar the the ME-25 808 effect sounded to this highly regarded boutique pedal. One patch used the TS-808 effect, and the other used a BOSS DS1.Īs much as I enjoyed that set-up, folks encouraged me to get an honest to gosh quality pedal to put in front of it, rather than this 'digital' thing. So, when I bought the KBP RD, I created a couple of patches containing only an OD driver and a little compression so the sound of amp would ring through. While I don't have an 'real' 808, that effect is included with my BOSS ME-25. Like has been mentioned on another thread, it is an op-amp pedal based on the Ibanez TS-808. This provides a huge range of adjustment possibilities to find the combination of gain, TMB, and boost for your style of play. In addition, a toggle switch three different combinations of base starting points The left most position has the most gain and compression, the middle has the least gain and is open, and the right has more gain and is also open. Or I use the gain stage and tone stack to create a wide variety of tones that can be independently boosted by the boost stage.

It allows me to kick an adjustable boost without gain. This allows the pedal to get out the way when I want to play straight through my amp with is a KBP810 Reverb Deluxe (Fender DR clone with a few mods). It's a true bypass pedal featuring both a gain and independent boost feature. I spent some time today A-B comparing the CMATMODS Super Signa Drive against the TS-808 OD option on my BOSS Multi-effects 25.

Sonar 8.5 gainstage