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HomeAmps and EffectsDanelectro Cool Cat Cto-2 Transparent Od V2 Guitar Pedal |
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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Nice, tasty OD pedal @ sweet price Oct 06, 2010
By BlueWilly
This OD pedal does all I need it to do. I have two small tube amps, and was experimenting with OD pedals. I borrowed a Maxon OD808 and a Fulltone FullDrive2MosFet. A few ground rules: I have two small tube amps - a vintage Silvertone 1451 and a Laney "Lionheart" L5T-112. And I play classic Chicago-style blues--so I'm not looking for wild-ass overdrive. I found none of the pedals produced tone I couldn't get overdriving the Silvertone. Pushing the Drive channel on the Laney, and cranking the CTO2, I get tones that sound (to me) like the last Metallica concert I attended. For me, the utility is as a real nice "click and go" boost for soloing, that sounds just like pushing the drive channel-without needing to stop playing to twist knobs. This pedal sounded every bit as good as as the Maxon and Fulldrive--to my ears--for about 1/3 the price. A great little stompbox at a great price. Petty darn sturdy construction, too.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Cool Cat Overdrive Nov 03, 2011
By Mano
Great pedal, well made metal not cheap plastic. It gives a crunchy bluessy-texas-ZZ Top sound and it's excellent to boost your solos. It offers plenty of options to play with until you get your sound, comes with a battery and under the battery lid, you get more options to set and play with the sound, it also works with a 9V adapter, I use the Danelectro DA-4 Dan Electrode 9 Volt Power Supply. These Cool Cat pedals come with very good looking vintage stickers. The price is very good. I just love this pedal!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Love it Aug 19, 2011
By mattx
"Frequent reader. Infrequent reviewer."
I bought this pedal on a lark, not knowing if it was better or worse than the V1 or really if it was any good at all.
I am using it with a Bugera V5 1x8 and a mid-'90s Fender Blues DeVill 2x12. These are both all tube amps. I think it really works well both as a clean boost and a mild and pleasant sounding overdrive.
On the bigger amp the clean boost really drives the front end of the amp and gives you a good clean crunch and a nice volume lift for solos. On the Bugera the higher gain sounds great and I can use it to give me switchable channels. I think this is a very versatile and inexpensive pedal.
You should consider this pedal if you are looking for something to push your tube amp a bit harder or bring out your solos and/or give you a bit of nice gain. Do not buy this pedal if you like very heavy overdrive sounds. Look elsewhere for those. Speaking of such overdrives, I have also found that this pedal works very well in front of other to fatten them up.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 A bit buzzy for my tastes Dec 07, 2010
By MK
I bought this to use while I wait for my Timmy to be done. Version 1 of this pedal was supposedly a flat out clone of the Timmy, version 2 was supposed to be slightly different and not as good but I couldn't find a version 1. So I decided to give V2 a try. I could not bond with this pedal at all. First of all I couldn't get it to sound very transparent, no matter what the EQ was set to. It either added too much low-end or the high end got brittle. Second, the overdrive didn't sound very natural to me at all. Its hard to explain but its almost as if your dry signal and your overdrive were separate sounds, they didn't sound part of the same signal. And the overdrive was always buzzy to me, not very amp-like at all.
 Just like it says--Transparent Mar 27, 2012
By Joseph E. Brackman
I bought this because of the rumors (pretty much confirmed via The Gear Page and gearmandude on YouTube) that this is a circuit clone of the Timmy pedal. I'm somewhat willing to pay the one thirty for the Timmy, but there is the wait and money is pretty tight. I opted for this one for price reasons.
The tone of this thing is awesome. It took a while to dial in the sound; I ended up turning down both the Treble and Bass controls. I have the Drive set for moderate breakup when my guitar volume is all the way up, and the Volume is set for just a little more juice than the bypassed volume. Because this is such a great low-gain drive, I've found myself leaving it on all the time and just adjusting my guitar volume down for clean tones. When my Strat volume is on '5', it's pretty much clean. At that point, this pedal is an EQ.
My signal path: American Deluxe Strat (Dimarzio Virtual Solo bridge, Virtual Vintage Blues middle, Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 neck; has a volume kit for clean tones that are nice and bright) -> Line 6 POD X3 compressor/overdrive -> [fx loop out] -> DOD FX40 Graphic EQ -> Cool Cat CTO2 -> Ethos Overdrive -> [POD fx loop in] -> POD X3 tube preamp sim/cab sim/EQ/delay/chorus/reverb -> house PA, headphones
I will echo the main complaint of this box--concentric knobs for Treble & Bass. There's a lip on the top of the enclosure that makes turning the lower knob (Bass, IIRC) very difficult. You can hardly turn one knob without turning the other. Very poor design on this one. I don't turn the knobs much anymore now that I have it dialed in, so it's not a daily frustration.
I get a lot of compliments on my tone, and this is now part of my Ethos clean _and_ overdrive tones (the Ethos is a Dumble-in-a-box clean/dirty preamp that is absolutely awesome). I feel like my range of tones on my pedalboard are great now. I play in the worship team at church, and having a large range of low-gain tones is very useful. I'm getting Lincoln Brewster, Chris Tomlin, etc. tones--all the normal contemporary worship stuff-- without even using guitar amp sims in the POD at all. This pedal fills a niche between the Ethos clean and Ethos overdrive. The only thing that might be lacking now is some sort of Marshall thing; not really happy with the POD for that.
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