The Overdrive That Could Conquer the World!

Now the title may be an exaggeration… but the tweakability of the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire Overdrive/Distortion is on a level all it’s own!  The artists, and that’s what they are at Creation Audio Labs, have come up with a concoction that MOST Rock/Blues/Funk and Metal Gear Heads will scour the earth to get there hands on, and their ears wrapped around!  Before I go any further, YES, I own one, and use it in my rig with abandon.  Yet again, a pedal with only a few controls:  Gain, Overdrive, Distortion, and Treble Cut.  But the similarities with other pedals end there.  The Gain control has THE MOST headroom I’ve ever experienced!  (It’s really your Volume.) You can just CRACK it open and it’s already spitting FIRE!  Now without getting too technical, the Overdrive is TRULY based on a pushed tube tone.  The more you increase the knob, the more tube-like characteristics appear.  But the beauty of this design is how it works with the third control: Distortion.  You’ve NEVER heard a pedal where the Overdrive DIRECTLY affects what occurs with the Distortion!  And the Treble Cut makes it ALL come together!  Rolling it off to about 1:00 keeps the top end of this dragon warm but still crispy enough to burn your biscuits!  As a live, every day, gigging, working man’s tool, this compact powerhouse makes the cut.  Run it through your clean channel, and give your amp a whole new realm of punch and crispiness.  If you need to push your lead channel for cut and clarity, it will do this without breaking a sweat!  I’ve used it dialed in for a GREAT crunch in a clean mode, and then without making any adjustments, click it over to my lead tone and listen to the SMOOTH sustain and SWEET gain that only the HOLY FIRE seems capable of handling!  Now I LOVE variety in my live tone… I can’t stand using the same couple of tones OVER, and OVER, and OVER!  Therefore, my rig has a bunch of overdrive pedals that I tap dance around to tweak my sound on the fly.  But I will admit, that the CREATION AUDIO LABS HOLY FIRE is one of those pedals my foot just gets drawn to without question!  So, my fellow gluttons for TONE, get your hands on one of these, and you might just hear the Roar of Angels coming from your amp like NEVER before!  Carry On!