Ultimate Drive : Nice price but still improvable

12 years ago

bought this pedal because of lack of money. Overall a good pedal but still with room for improvement.

Setup 1:

Dist in front of clean tube amp.

-> low gain mode sounds a bit like the classic MXR distortion plus. nice but not my style. I use the high gain mode for a very fuzzy rythm tone. Sounds extremely fat with unfortunately much white noise and lacks mids.

Setup 2:

Dist in front of dirty tube amp.

-> i still use the high gain mode but with less gain (around 1 o'clock) and with the tone somewhere loeft from 12.

Pretty good attack with enough mids and a great sound for modern hard riffs.

Conclusion:

not the best pedal but still great regarding the price

Image Harley Benton Ultimate Drive

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Harley Benton
  • Released in 2011
  • Average price : $32
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