Had this pedal for a few months now and it's an absolute stonker. All overdrive and distortion gas has been sated.
It Rats, it Big Muffs, it Tube Screams, it can do a righteously meaty Marshall stack thing. Some other drive pedals which ive previously owned which the Odyssey seems to grok with ease are (off the top of my head) Fairfield Barbershop, Dinosaural OPA 101, and Boss DS1. Thats just from tweaking on the suggested settings in the manual. I haven't even tried to really experiment and push it yet.
Bloody fantastic, if you're in the market for a new drive you owe it to yourself to try one!
Anyone else got one and loving it?
Comments
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Initial impressions have been very good. I didn't get a manual with mine.
Luckily you can download it from their site though :-D
@meltedbuzzbox I found the manual made it easy to just dive in and get some recogniseable tones right off the bat with no messing. I found the classic rock and scooped metal settings to be super fun.
@gassage i get that. Ive developed a bit of a fetish for pedal board simplicity of late, so a single pedal with all the flex of the Odyssey is just the tonic for me right now.
I almost bought a second i enjoyed it so much. But in a last minute change of mind, decided to give the Petty John Lift a try, as they had one in stock at guitarfxditect and im pretty bloody pleased with that as well. But thats another post
If that does an awesome low gain and mid gain sound I think I will swap out the Hamstead for a DOD Carcosa.
The Hamstead is very good and has a very nice open sound. I will spend some more time with it tomorrow and see whats what
But based on what ive heard I would wager that the Broadcast might have edge over the Odyssey in the low gain department.