J. Rockett Audio Designs Archer

Hi there,

I am playing mostly clean and crunchy tones and I don't use much distortions. I use this pedal in 2 scenarios, first as a always on pedal to bring some treble boost for my bison LP Standard, second as a light driven boost with a suhr S type.
I am thinking about keeping this always on with the drive to 0, and buying another one (maybe the gold one or another brand) to have the light driven boost and the treble one without having toswhich the settings.

On in all it's a nice compact metal pedal, feels very sturdy and qualittative, the controls are quiet precise but I would love to have it with a second selector embedded !

Leaving out the comparisons with the other mythical pedal aside, this is a great sounding overdrive that adds this "breaking point" characteristics to a set up without modifying much the tone of the guitar and amp (just a bit of compression maybe).

I hear a lot more clarity when this is engaged and for a few months have been on almost the entire time on my pedalboard.

Build quality is great and the detail of having the input/output jacks in the back to me is great since it saves some space in the board.

I can definitely recommend it, I'm enjoying it a lot.

Used with Les Paul into Hiwatt DR504. I wanted a low gain crunch to drive my Hiwatt which is a very clean amp for rythmn parts. The low gain break-up was not smooth enough for me, however the higher gain end of the pedal sounded fantastic for lead sounds. I then used it on my 1980 Marshall JMP which has a natural break-up it sounded great. The pedal Sound very open and the individual strings come though clearly. I will give it a high Rating because it is excellently built, and would Sound great with an amp that is breaking up already. I have returned it and bought a Fulltone OCD which works better on my set up.