A transparent overdrive, optical compressor, and dual flanger!
PRS Guitars has entered the world of pedals, with three all-new stomp boxes; a transparent overdrive, optical compressor, and dual flanger.
What you need to know:
- PRS Guitars has entered the world of pedals with three all-new stomp boxes.
- They have a transparent overdrive, optical compressor, and dual flanger.
- All three feature through-hole soldering.
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“The whole concept started in my home studio… when recording, I was looking for tones and textures I couldn’t get straight from the guitar,” said founder Paul Reed Smith.
“When I couldn’t find what I was looking for, I would build a device with the help of some friends… that’s how the first pedal prototypes were born.”
The PRS Horsemeat transparent overdrive is a from-scratch circuit designed to enhance guitar tone without colouring it.
It uses germanium diodes and will give throatiness without sounding nasally or too high-pitched, as well as delivering harmonic richness.
The PRS Horsemeat also boosts full low and high frequencies, while providing more headroom, and depending on settings can be used as a clean boost, straight overdrive, or even enhance an amp’s distortion by pushing the front end of its preamp section.
The PRS Mary Cries optical compressor, which is based on the storied LA-2A, helps harness players’ dynamic audio range.
When its engaged, it can boost and even out clean tone, add sustain to leads, and push guitar tone without sacrificing clarity or definition.
By using the output/ gain control while leaving the compression control low, players can use Mary Cries as a straight boost pedal.
The PRS Wind Through the Trees dual flanger is best described as two flangers fighting with each other.
Creating a sound reminiscent of the wind whipping through the trees, this pedal offers airy harmonics, moody frequency swirls, jet-engine swooshes and fluctuating warbles.
All three feature through-hole soldering, which allows for the best-sounding parts to be used, and are also true bypass, meaning they are out of the signal chain when turned off, allowing players to have uncoloured tone at the tip of their toes.
Head to PRS for more information. For local enquiries on PRS products, reach out to Electric Factory.
