My friend recently bought the Demonizer pedal, from the now defunct company, Damage Control and he was kind enough to lend it to me to mess around with the pedal for a couple of days.Demonizer is a twin tube distortion pedal and it features a pre amp frequency and boost knob, Post amp scoop and treble knob, Opto Compressor knob, Drive and Level knob. The Pre amp frequency knob allows for the wah kinda sound shaping, giving the user the chance to set his tone at a specific sweet spot of the Wah without the need for the Wah. The pre amp boost allows for more volume boost and tone shaping controls.
The Post amp Knob allows for either a scoop tone or a tone with overdose of mid bass, which is by far my favourite. The Treble knob well, controls the amount of treble in your tone.
One of the things I like about the pedal is, it has a build in Compressor which allows you to have a more compressed tone, which is usually needed when you are doing your lead works. It also has 2 stomp switches, one being the engage switch the other being the Nuclear mode.
What the Nuclear mode does is it works like a tubescreamer booster pedal, boosting the existing distortion making the tone fatter and creamier. This is especially useful for players who enjoys playing with thick and heavy distortion.
Overall, the pedal can handle anything from slight overdriven blues to hard hitting metal. The pedal is versatile and gives you a sound similar to a full-blown stack delivering thick, chunky, high-gain tube tone. I personally prefer a pedal able to deliver thick and creamy high gain distortion while this pedal without the nuclear mode doesn't do that, however in the nuclear mode, it is however nice and sweet. The pedal however is unable to run solely on batteries and requires external power. For players looking to add a tube distortion in pedal form, this can be one of the considers among a few others.
Attached below are a few sound sample recorded from my simple recording setup and is recorded with my "Frankenstein" and my Marshal MG15MSII with all EQ set at 12 O'Clock.
Demonizer Nightwish Amaranth by Adrian Goh
Demonizer Nuclear Nightwish Amaranth by Adrian Goh
Ftlog demonizer by Adrian Goh
Ftlog demonizer nuclear by Adrian Goh
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