The TONEE T.Over is an exceptionally versatile and highly tweakable booster/overdrive/distortion pedal.
This is not another Tube Screamer clone nor a clone of a clone of the Tube Screamer. It's an entirely new design that spent 10 years in the development stage, all to make the overdrive pedal capable of many shades of overdrive, but sounding bigger, sweeter and tastier than an average stompbox.
The T.Over features unique three-position HARMONICS switch which reconfigures the whole distortion circuitry to excel in every setting from clean boost to overdrive to distortion, as well as offers tone shaping options both before and after the distortion circuit.
This pedal will respect what your guitar delivers. It doesn't cut lows, unless you intend to. This is the OD pedal that retains tonality of your instrument.
The T.Over is designed by AMTEC AUDIO, a company known in the pro-audio world for their tube equalizers used in recording studios all around the world.
Most overdrive pedals sound just fine with significant amount of gain, but very few of them are void of unpleasant "tail" on decaying sounds and suffer badly with the gain backed-off giving uneven detached buzzy noise that's modulated with signal envelope. Another common problem is unsatisfactory treble adjustment. Very often the effect is too piercing and harsh or it's too muddy and covered.
This pedal addresses these issues and offers a lot more. It's definitely not a one trick pony...
A word of warning: this pedal is not for a beginner. It takes time and skills to explore its huge possibilities, but the results would be very rewarding.
Apart from typical self-explanatory Gain, Tone and Volume controls, the T.Over features 3 rotary switches which open a whole new world of tonal capabilities.
The six-position FILTER switch lets to fine-tune pre-distortion tone shaping that is the key in making overdrive character. It offers 2 positions of low-cut to keep sound tight with exposed mid-range to cut thru mix easier, a full-band position and 3 positions of mid-cut. The mid-cut positions are perfect for humbuckers (even though some players love to use them on single-coils too) giving full but not mushy overdrive.
The next is the three-position HARMONICS switch. The effect of that switch is nothing short of dramatic.
Position I is perfect for clean or slightly overdriven boost. It's a blend of two paths, each with different overload and tonal characteristics. Setable from crystal clear to "rich" clean to grit. You may fall in love with that setting.
Position II is a more traditional Drive-type of distortion. It's very dynamic, responsive and not too much saturated. A kind of archetypal rock'n'roll sound. Very touch-sensitive, cleans-up wonderfully with lighter attack.
Position III is a more saturated and singing variant of the previous setting, but with added cleaner signal to prevent overall effect from being too much squished and compressed. There is still picking attack in it.
And last, but not least, there is the TONE MODE switch which selects capacitor used in the tone circuit. The circuit cuts high frequencies (just like a tone knob in your guitar), but here it does it AFTER distortion, so you can dial the amount of the high-end leaving the pedal to your taste. The switch allows you to fine-tune how you would like to tame treble:
the position 1 cuts quite low - not only highs, but mid-frequencies as well, so it can be used as a kind of low-end boost. This position can give impression of scooped mids.
the position 6 attenuates only very high frequencies, so it's rather subtle. Then there are 4 positions in between these extremes.
When the TONE potentiometer is at full, there is no attenuation, no highs are reduced, the sound is bright and the switch doesn't do anything. The TONE knob turned down works like a 6db/oct low-pass filter with the frequency set by the TONE MODE switch. In the middle positions of the TONE knob it works like a shelving cut.
Only quality components are used throughout. The rotary switches have gold-plated contacts for long trouble-free operation. It doesn't use IC's, but a few of carefully selected transistors. The selecting process is very rigorous to ensure that every T.Over sounds the same.
The T.Over is powered internally by a 9V battery or by an external DC power supply (using standard 2.1mm/5.5mm center-negative connection). The power consumption is low at 4.5mA, so it will not put stress on the AC adapter.
The bypass switch is of the True-bypass type, hence there is no loss of tone in the bypass position.
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