Carl Martin PlexiTone Single-Channel Guitar Effects Pedal

I primarily use 60's Fender Bandmaster amps as a platform for pedals. I prefer MXR pedals, mostly. I bought the Plexitone pedal for something different. I am extremely happy with everything about it. The gain can be dialed down to achieve an awesome tone with single coil or humbuckers,

This is a very good overdrive pedal and produces nice distorted sounds. It's very responsive, has great sustain and produces a full thick sound.

This pedal absolutey screams. Sustain is endless, even when I am using my back up guitar and 15 watt practice amp. I don't even need to pick the string. I just lay my left hand on the strings and it starts to howl and ring out. I use a TS808 in my rig also for more subtle, vintage overdrive but if I want big, fat, saturated, overdrive tones, I hit the plexitone. Sustain and feedback is out of this world, but still warm and toneful.

For about the last year or so, I've been on the same quest that A LOT of guitar players nowadays are stuck on as well: finding an inexpensive way to get a vintage Marshall tone without actually having to buy a Plexi or a JMP. After spending countless hours narrowing down my options, I came to this little gold box, and I'm happy I found it. It is gritty, open, and very responsive. With the drive at almost as low it can go, you get the sound of a Marshall just starting to break up. Drive all the way up and you get loads of saturation, compression, and all of the classic dimed Plexi qualities. The only pedal that gives it any competition in my opinion is the Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret. To me the Catalinbread gets just a straight up stock Super Lead/Super Bass tone, while the Plexitone is more of a hot rodded mid 70s Plexi/JMP sound. Both are great and I would take the DLS anyday, but the Plexitone is the better of the two for my style.