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00:00What's up? It's Paul from Guitar World and today I'd like to say that it would make no sense for me
00:14to say something like, the wait is over on what I have over here because many of us didn't see
00:20this coming. That's right, your eyes do not deceive you. PRS guitars made some pedals.
00:26Let's take a quick look at them.
00:30Yes, you heard that correctly. PRS or Paul Reed Smith, maker of many of the finest electric
00:38guitars and acoustics and even amplifiers, have now thrown their hat in the stomp box ring
00:43and released three new guitar pedals. The horse meat transparent overdrive, the wind through
00:48the trees dual analog flanger and the merry cries optical compressor. All of these PRS pedals
00:55feature through hole soldering which broadens the component selection and allows for the
00:59best sounding parts to be used and they are also true bypass.
01:07According to PRS, the horse meat transparent overdrive is a built from scratch circuit designed to enhance guitar tone without coloring it. The pedal uses germanian diodes for a smoother and fuller overdriven crunch that closely approaches a meaty distortion as you increase the gain.
01:08The pedal uses germanian diodes. The pedal uses germanian diodes for a
01:15and fuller overdriven crunch that closely approaches a meaty distortion as you increase the gain control. You can see the controls for the treble and bass to boost both the high and low end frequencies, while the voice control offers a
01:22more tailoring of the harmonic content for the harmonic content for added richness to your tone.
01:23Depending on the setting of course, the horse meat can be used as a
01:25and fuller overdriven crunch. The pedal uses germanian diodes for a smoother and fuller overdriven
01:29crunch that closely approaches a meaty distortion as you increase the gain control. You can see the controls for the treble and bass to boost both the high and low end frequencies, while the voice control offers more tailoring of the harmonic content for added richness to your tone.
01:44Depending on the setting of course, the horse meat can be used as a clean boost, straight overdrive, or push the front end of the amps preamp section to enhance the amplifiers distortion.
02:14Depending on the setting of course, the wind-through-the-trees dual analog flanger pedal is best to
02:43describe as two flangers fighting each other, or what I'd like to say, two flangers mixed into one another, resulting in a sound reminiscent of the wind whipping through the trees, hence its colorful name.
02:56The pedal features manual depth and ray controls per flanger as well as global regeneration and added highs controls.
03:15There's endless flanging to be had with the wind through the trees.
03:18Based on the classic LA-2A rack mount, a hand-wired and tube-based compressor, the Merry Cry's optical compressor pedal aims to thicken your guitar tone, curb signal peaks, increase sustain, and push your tone with definition and clarity.
03:36This pedal can also be used as a boost as well as a straightforward compressor.
03:52Or even better, use it as a clean boost with a hint of compression.
03:56What's nice is the pedal's blue compression light shows you when the compression is actively kicking in.
04:01PRS should have used the slogan, expect the unexpected, for their brand new pedal launch.
04:12With the horse meat as a wonderful textured overdrive, Merry Cry's as a simplified studio quality optical compressor, and the dual vintage flanging from their wind-through-the-trees analog flanger,
04:23PRS has come out of the gate swinging with three high-end stomp boxes built to last a lifetime with classic sounds most guitarists will want to investigate further.
04:34Definitely check them out.
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