Xploration • Curation • Recommendation
Warm Audio takes on the BluesBreaker and King of Tone with its expanded features Throne of Tone Dual Channel Overdrive
Another smarty rolled out Warm Audio Device - albeit a tiny bit clunky for me - while you can’t dispute its exceptional feature set. The 4 knobs per channel are the KOT controls - where typically the Presence is internal to that pedal. While on my JHS 4-Star Modded Edition - the Presence Trimmers have been externalised as knobs, as have the voicing switches - allowing you to change between Boost, Overdrive and Distortion for each channel.
So my version of KOT has the Presence Knobs and Main...
Warm Audio is back on track with it's Multi-Screamer WA-TS Tube Squealer - which cleverly covers the Trifecta of - TS808 + TS9 + TS10 voicings
I’ve been highly critical of Warm Audio in the past - culminating in my red-line critique of some serious Trade Dress violations - for its Mutation Phasor II, ODD and Warmdrive pedals - those were definitely out of line, and over the line! And contrasted significantly with their opening flurry of Centavo, Jet Phaser, and Foxy Tone Box - which I felt were sufficiently differentiated - making for proper Tributes and Riff-offs of those original themes - versus more of a Rip-Off for the Phasor II, ...
Warm Audio remakes the 1998 MoogerFooger MF-102 as the RingerBringer, and massively springboards off the 1966 Vox Tone Bender for a really unique 3-in-1 Warm Bender Multi-Bender
CAVEAT EMPTOR! : Someone just did a breakdown of the Warm Bender - and alas - those are not NOS transistors - not even in the slightest - in fact rather more ordinary grey market knock-offs - not one of the Germanium Transistors has any sort of pedigree or provenance - which very much explains how Warm Audio could sell this at such a low price, For me this should be filed under ’False Advertising’. Weirdly I still have a vague desire to own this pedal - but it’s not nearly as...
The GPX take on the recent Warm Audio 'Replicas' - Josh Scott asked did they go too far with their recent editions?
Many who read my blog don’t know that I used to work in advertising - mostly brand origination / development - and we dealt with a lot of copyright and trademark issues over that time. You quickly get a feel for how close you can sail into the wind - and the truth is mostly not that close at all! Of all of these replicas only probably the first one could be argued away against a top copyright lawyer - the other 5 would pretty much come under straight-up plagiarism - but there are other factors ...
3 Recent Compact, Medium and Large Foxx Tone Machine Fuzz Replicas
It seems very timely that not long after I’ve finally landed my targeted Danelectro 3699 Fuzz - two further examples appear almost at the exact same time - Stomp Under Foot’s medium-BB-size Silver Fox and the full-size exact Foxy Tone Box replica from studio gear specialists Warm Audio.
In this instance you pay for feature-set and modernity really as the smallest box is the dearest at $199, while Warm Audio’s near original version with NOS parts is going for a very ...
