Sound Quality: 10

Guitar:

Farida FTC32(Thinline)

Pedals:

mheavy Dolphin Overdrive

Boss Ds2

Electro-Harmonix Poly Chorus

Electro-Harmonix The Worm

Korg 301dl Dynamic Echo

Amp:

Fender Fm25R



I don't want to compare Dolphin with other Overdrive pedals, because every pedal has its trait. Just like my dolphin.

Rock, Blues, some jazzy stuff. This pedal is good for that but will not create a wall of sound type distortion. It would be interesting to use it for boosting a tube amp. I have a feeling that should sound pretty good.

I like this pedal's simplicity. The switch is very easy to operate. Much easier than the similarly built MXR pedals or my BOSS distortion. The Dolphin definitely helps me achieve certain sounds: Level at 12O' clock, The sound is really PURE TONE. Can get real smooth sustain without mush distortion. Level at 10O' clock, Drive at 12O' clock, I describe it as a "cleaner distortion". I also boost my Ds2 by it, it takes more portamento and strong distortion to me.



Dolphin works with my other pedals, it's a very marvelous thing, I can creat more beautiful sound by them.



Thanks mheavy for his work! He really did a great job!

~ sonicsmash 2006/05/11

　
 

Feature: 8

 

One Volume, One Boost and On/Off. True Bypass. Solid metal case. Very clean and tidy. However. the pedal will be much more versatile if EQ could be included. Anyway, the existing feature is still sufficient to perform its function.



Easy to Use : 10

Very simple to use. Just adjust the volume according to your personal preference. Don't even need a manual.



Overall : 9

I have been long looking for a booster that can boost the guitar signal that would not add any overdirve on it. This Clean Booster is just right on my taste. Most of the time, I play with a Fender 57 vintage series Strat. By turning the booster on, the guitar note becomes more thicker and brighter. Most important, the guitar character is still there. Once you have turned it on, you won't turn it off. I even hooked it up with a cheap Strat, and this little pedal managed to improve the sound quality a lot. Overall speaking, I would give it a 9 out of 10 because of the lack of EQ.



Submitted by Tony on 31.5.2006

• I have just received and just started tweaking M-heavy's Dolphine Overdrive pedal and exploring this pedal. The intial reaction to the pedal is quite impressive. The small size pedal reacts to the dial quite fast and when the drive dial set at 11 o'clock, it starts to break, that gives a tube amp overdrive tone. Since i am using tube amp, i can get reasonably good tube o/d tone when i placed the pedal before the amp without cranking up the amp volume. If you have a reasobly good tube amp, the pedal is better serve as a stacker for the other effect pedals (i have still yet to spend more time to see how it reacts with other effect pedals). My amp is notorious of picking hissing when connected to other pedals/mixer. However, the Dolphine seems quite quiet compare with other extenal effects. Ony thing is this pedals seems a little costly. If you can afford the price, it is a good hand-made pedal.
  
  Gregory Lo
  3.3.2007
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  overall : 8.5分

   
  本人一直用大量非true bypass既pedal, 而我是"反對改裝, 支持原廠設定"的主意者, 最近我同時用上兩某"b字頭"delay, 發覺食tone情況開始明顯, 所以一直四周尋找true bypass looper, 但一直都找不到, 到最後發現mheavy, 便博一博send mail問有唔有訂製服務, 竟然有哦~
   
  我要求的4 loops + tuner mute + LED燈, mheavy都一一做到, 大約一星期已做好, 加上體積細小(不像某外國名custom looper又長又大), 雖然接cables時有些麻煩, 但總體上比較不佔空間.
   
  它是用9v dc + 3PDT, 加上價錢也比較合理, 絶對"真貨實料".
   
  可惜我落order時忘了說要一個直接bypass 整個looper的switch, 否則分數可更高

   

  marcelo  21.8.2006