Elektron Analog Drive, everything we hoped the Riverside would be?

professorben

https://www.andertons.co.uk/p/ANALOGDRIVE/overdrive-pedals/elektron-analog-drive-distortion-stompbox?LGWCODE=ANALOGDRIVE;56375;6335&gclid=CPe1qezkrdECFRI6Gwodk4ABxA

Looks and sounds pretty good to me. 
And as they say, reassuringly expensive. 

monquixote

I didn't think the clips sounded all that special.

EricTheWeary

I've watched part of the Andertons demo. I'm not sure their set up / use was exactly optimised to get the best out of it but if you had a MIDI based set up and needed a bunch of overdrives then it makes sense. But, like the Riverside, you have a lot of options within this budget so, I guess, you look at this thing because you like the functionality and then get the drives to work for you. 

kjdowd

I got hold of one as a versatile OD option for the home board. Takes a bit of dialling in but sounds good to me. 

I'll do some clips when I get a mo. 

kjdowd

This weeks TPS is about the analog drive. Great piece of kit - sounds great, really flexible and not silly money considering what you get. Smaller enclosure would be nice but then there are 8 pedals in there I suppose. 

Being super critical a more usable fuzz sound would have been preferable, but I suppose that's personal preference and plenty will love the octave fuzz. 

clarkefan

Watch the TPS demo.

Not sure what was so great about it to be honest.  Who's it for? Personally I have no need for low gain or fuzz (though to be fair the TPS guys sounded very Hendrix demoing that, like the first time I ever heard fuzz sound like a specific Hendrix track, very cool).

Oh, a little whinge.  That Pedal Mick, for the love of god stop wheeling out SRV every time there's a bloody tube screamer mentioned,  I can't take any more. Surely somebody else has used one? Play some Gary Moore licks or something. ANYthing. 

kjdowd

I guess it's for anyone who needs a variety of decent drive sounds recallable by preset. I can think of a number of uses for it. Function band looking to cover a lot of bases, for one, or for someone who plays across a few different styles. 

With a midi switcher you could cover an awful lot of ground with just one pedal (albeit a large one...)