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BBE Green Screamer Pitted Against Its Worst Nightmare

December 08, 2008
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BBE Green Screamer Demo

The BBE effects pedals are all really well-built, and thoughtfully ship with both a 9V battery AND power supply. But all you really care about is tone, so Owen hooked up a BBE Green Screamer up to a '59 Bassman Reissue to test its sonic-mettle. Even though he really likes the graphics -- featuring a detail from Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! -- he remained coldly critical of its sound. To really notch up the gauntlet, he even pitted this unsuspecting pedal against its arch-nemesis, a reissue Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer Overdrive Pro.
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Presenter: Owen O'Malley and Gretchen Hasse, Gearwire
Location: Gearwire Studio -- Chicago, IL

Owen O'Malley is a Gearwire contributor

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This was a good demo.You

By: Anonymous Coward

This was a good demo.You guys should do more pedal shootouts like this.You know like with popular stompboxes and their clone knockoffs.

Tue, 2008-12-09 21:19

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