PPD - Power Distortion

A powerful compact distortion pedal.The PPD Distortion is very fat and warm and the bright switch puts you right in your sweet spot!

Controls

• DIST: It's the effect's gain. Increase it to add distortion. At lower settings combined with higher levels, makes the pedal act like a booster pedal.
• TONE: Let's you adjust the amount of high tones in your sound.
• LEVEL: Output volume.
• HIGH: (Bright Switch) Button that emphasizes the highs, adding additional brightness to the sound.

Global Specs

• Power: Standard 9V Battery or Regulated 9 volt DC, center negative power supply. (Note: This product uses up to 30mA, but GNI recommends 300mA supplies due to typically increased robustness/reliability).
• Bypass mode: True Bypass
• Input Impedance: 500 kΩ
• Output impedance: 1 kΩ
• Size: 60x105x74 (mm) 2.36x4.13x2.91 (in)
• Weight: 435g (0.960 lbs)

Audio Clips

 by Ricky Furlani

I’m proud to have participated on this pedal’s development: it’s one of the best mid-hi-gain distortions, for an excellent price. Congratulations GNI!

Samples show the best features every distortion sound should have: body, weight, balanced frequency response, definition and low noise.

I recorded these samples at my studio using a vintage Gibson Les Paul, the clean channel of an Orange Rockerverb 50, 2x12’’ and a Shure SM57 microphone.

Sample 1 – Clean (bypass) sound: guitar and amplifier only.

MEDIUM GAIN

Sample 2 – Jamming a riff of my own.

Sample 3 – Scorpions 80´s hard rock riff

HIGH GAIN

Sample 4 – 70´s Rush, progresive rock riff

Sample 5 – Kiss: War Machine riff

HIGH GAIN + “Hi emphasis”

Sample 6 – Seek and Destroy: here I pressed the pedal’s “high” Button, which emphasizes higher frequencies, making sound brighter and perfect for this 80’s Metallica riff.

LOW GAIN

Sample 7 – “Gain” knob set to minimum. I reached a 70’s Blues / Rock timbre, showing this pedal is not only specialist in heavy sounds, but is also great for different rock styles.

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