4.52am Issue: 003 9th October 2016

COG EFFECTS
Knightfall 66 Bass Overdrive
In last week’s 4.52am we introduced the
rather swish Cog Effects Analogue Octave,
and had always intended to also show you
(as it was a bit of a bass special with Mr
Mark King, Status Graphite and all) the
rather wonderfilled Cog Effects Knightfall 66
Bass Overdrive. That we didn’t probably
came down to my tendency to witter on
about things I find interesting, as you have
probably just noticed with the Spitfire
Vintage Tortoiseshell Pickguards article.
So anyway, today I get to put things right
and let you see another superbly, spotlessly
assembled pedal from those nice chaps at
Cog.
From the top it is pretty much the perfect
Bass overdrive. It will easily give you a
beautifully thick clean tone, will also give
you some grit, but then also go absolutely
ape-shit-crazy when the need arises.
What is particularly cool is that there are in
effect two overdrive pedals in one, so that
you have two separate channels, with
independent controls, and a simple A/B
switch to let you choose between the two.
Perfect.
Or as Cog put it,
“Two separate Gain controls can be
switched with the A/B footswitch, and each
Gain control also has a Level control to allow
balancing between the two drive settings.
The Voice knob adjusts pre-gain low end
providing additional control over the
shape of the overdrive, and the Tone
control cuts high end after the clipping
circuit giving a broad sweep from dark
through to very bright.
The clean channel is filtered in a similar
way to the Grand Tarkin's clean channel
and designed to properly blend with the
drive channel - rather than sounding
"side-by-side", the two channels integrate
for a more natural tone.”
Here is the gen:
* A/B footswitch gives different Gain
settings without losing balance of levels
* Filtered clean blend allows extensive
sound shaping in conjunction with Gain,
Voice and Tone
* 2.1mm Boss-style 9v-18v DC input
(power supply not included)
* North-mounted jacks to reduce
pedalboard footprint
* True Bypass
* Die-cast Aluminium box
Check it out for yourself Here anyway and
the demo is well worth a listen.