Radial Engineering Tonebone Plexitube Distortion Pedal

Can't find that plexi sparkle so far. Not that this isn't a good distortion pedal but haven't been able to get that real plexi tone yet. I'm not giving up because this pedal represents quite an investment and I'm sure it will find a place on my pedal board regardless. I rated the pedal as a 3 because of the price.

I have seen this pedals for years but I already having multiple Marshalls,Mesas and other high gainers and enough pedals to open a store. Got one on a trade and when going into 2 Fender Blues Deluxes in stereo the tone is hair raising. Its got that creamy, saturated sound of red hot glowing tubes. Crank VH "Somebody get me a Doctor." The pedal nails that opening 6 chords. I do not use it with the 5150 or the Marshalls. On my clean Fender setup, I can play the clean delay,time effects and with one stomp cover 90% of 80s metal. For those on a budget, I can highly suggest the Cmatmods Brownie. A/B the 2 they are very close

Because it not only gets a great "Marshall plexi" tone, but it can easily get a JTM, JMP, JCM, DSL, JVM, or just about any other Marshall tube amp tone you can think of and not just that, but Fender and Vox tube tones are possible too... Very cool indeed! If you use a "solid state" amp but long for true "tube amp" bone, I believe this pedal will do it for you pal. I gave it 4 stars only, not because of quality or value, but because that sucker ain't cheap! Buy it at any Guitar Center in SoCal and your paying darn near 25 bucks just in tax alone! Man that certainly does suck! But the pedal does not...not by a long shot.

Amazing Sound! I saw my Marshall JTM 45 burning the "air". Thanx Guitar Center and Radial.

This pedal can be a bit complicated at first. You have to do bit of tweaking to find a desired tone, but once you get the hang of it you can get all sorts of tones, i.e. megadeth, iron maiden, hendrix, SRV, zeppelin, GNR, ect.. and surprisingly it does them all very well. Unlike the Seymour Duncan twin tube mayhem, you can get a really tight bass out of this thing for those heavy metal riffs. It has more than enough distortion to please any metal head or it can give you that slight tube break up for that old school rich blues sound. It especially works well for anyone that owns a tube amp and would like to get that overdriven tube tone at low volumes. I never tried it with a solid state amp but im sure it would work just fine.

I bought this pedal because I was looking for a good distorsion pedal and read a review in some guitar magazine that was very favorable. I also liked the list of guitarist that use Radial products, check them out I'm sure theirs someone you like that uses their stuff. I had a soild state Marshall that when using the dirty channel, just did'nt give me the tone that I needed. I was using this amp for just practice, because my other three amps are tube and are just too loud for practice. It's kinda funny a Marshall amp(soild state) could'nt get me a Marshall tone. This pedal gives me the marshall tone in this soild state amp and my tube amps also, at any volume level. I let a couple friends use it they said the same thing. It can give you that warm sizziling tone of a all tube Marshall. I lot of pedals that I've used before that said that they would give me tube tone just did'nt, go figure, the pedals I used before I found this one did'nt have a tube inside the pedal. This one have a 12xa7 tube, I think thats the key. I would highly recommend this pedal. Radial makes a aby switcher that I'm wanting to get next.