American TrueTone : American Truetone Pedal

I bought this pedal as a cheap clean tone option for home recording purposes. I realised that the Blackstar HT-5 has a relatively bad sounding clean section and so bought this.

Based on a Fender Blues Jr. (I think!) this pedal really gives off a strong Fender vibe the cleans really coming out with the voice and drive knobs being turned almost completely down and the level turned right up. The knobs feel like good quality alongside the switch itself, something I was not expecting for a pedal of this value.

My dissapointment with this pedal was turning the drive and character knobs up, whilst it does a very excellent coloured clean sound, I found that the drive, even to a light level did not sound how I expected, quite a dissapointment however it was not really what I bought it for. A more natural sounding distortion would have made it more usable.

Overall, if you are looking for a cheap clean sound from a pedal, look no further, it gives a creamy clean tone, only improved with a reverb.