Jacques Overtube Vintage Pro Overdrive

While my TUBEBLOWER pedal is a personnal upgrade of the ts pedal, there will always be a wish to obtain the original specs, in order to recreate the exact tone of our fave records and riffs. I can understand this because I often feel this way----don't forget I own 4 originals!  So, like a sci-fi movie, I have been working on a clone for more than a year now and there it is: the SAME tone with exactly the same controls and control action than in a original vintage ts!!!

Let's face it : Like SRV himself, you need TWO!!!.  But no sweat : you will not have to buy 2 OVERTUBE.  I have included clever circuitry that is completely equivalent to two OVERTUBE linked in serial, exactly as on the SRV set up.  Just turn the CASC. switch on and get that compressed high-gain overdrive that will transform you solo in melting iron magic.

Introduction
A complete new breakthrough in the world of effect pedals, the TRINITY is a combo 1- envelope filter, 2- auto wah and 3- wah-wah in one compact pedal and a controller ---and of course an hommage to Carey Ann Moss.  But not only this : thanks to its unique controler, the TRINITY opens a whole new field in effect pedals, allowing tones and sensations never experienced before.  For once a new pedal is really new.

Chapter 1 : Classic Wah
Thanks to its dedicated dome controller , the TRINITY can be used as a wah-wah pedal. As unusual as it may seems ----the JACQUES TRINITY controller is made in a former military hardware factory----- anyone who have tried it feels immediately at ease with its utterly precise control over one of the most uncanny wah tone of all time.  Try one and you will ask yourself why in this world bulky rocker pedals have been the classic choice for wah.  The unique TRINITY wah tone is more vowel-like, more human than any other wah pedal, and makes heads turn whenever you start playing it.  You can of course adjust the Q factor with the MANUAL knob to come back to classic wah tone, making the TRINITY an incredible wah pedal if only it was its sole function, but ......

Chapter 2 : Stuck Wah
Due to its nature itself, there is nothing easier to get a stuck wah tone on the trinity. Furthermore, control on these favored guitar tone has never been so wide, from throaty 'Money for nothing' to squealing hard rock tones.  You need it.  So why bother unstable drifting rocker pedal or expensive rack : the TRINITY will give you this famous tone stock without spending another dollar.  And yes : Stock stuck wah.

Chapter 3 : Filter Wah
One of the most coveted effects of guitardom is the envelope filter.  The TRINITY offers an incredible rendition of this beloved tone, with a more complete range of controls than the competition...  The best thing about the TRINITY filter is that it's still a really dramatic effect while being usable in any setting. I wanted the whole to be pro-proof, and that you could get GREAT filter tone on the first second with the pedal.  Simply adjust the sensitivity control to your guitar and playing tech and you'll get your first brush with royal sibling enveloppe filter from France !

Chapter 4 : Auto Wah
The TRINTY gets an inboard full functions autowah, with rate and depth controls.  More than automatic wah, this effect is sent up to the boundaries with flanger and phasing , thanks to its incredible depth and musicality.  Furthermore, the controler is still useful here, as it now slowly bypass this dramatic effects. You should try this.

Chapter 5 : In Between s and MP3
As a pure analog device, the TRINITY can anywhere between two settings, allowing literally hundreds of possible tones.  I think this demo from my GREAT demoer Jean-Christophe PANZA---meet him at newt SHG Milano, ITALY at JACQUES BOOTH !!!---will give already an idea of this panorama.

1-Studio Quality analog delay
It is often refered to analog delay as low-fi tone.  It's a mistake. While it sounds less bright than crispy analog, a pro quality analog delay must satisfy all fidelity exigence of a working musician.  In the old days, you could bet there was a difference between cheap plastic analog delay pedal and big bucks studio rack.  I remember a Dynacord studio analog delay ---one of my fave--- costed the price of 2 stratocasters!  This is what we did in the PRISONER delay: thanks to its high quality N.O.S. Made in Japan Matsushita BBD chips, the PRISONER offers 0.3 seconds of pure hi-fi analog delay ... but there's much more ...

2- Dry guitar tone when the effect is on
As you must know, when you stomp on a delay box, you hear the wet AND the dry guitar tone.  What you absolutely should know is that in digital delay, even the DRY tone is digitalized, which means that how good the delay is, the dry tone which mixes with it is lousy.  Try you main digital squeeze with all delay down and compare it with your original guitar tone.  You will see what I mean. Of course, no such thing with the PRISONER: the dry tone in the mix is exactly your guitar tone.  Believe me, this makes a huge difference and this is part of why we still want analog delay in our computerized world.

3- Modulation !!!!
This is the PRISONER forte.  When meeting Steve Morse for the MERCER BOX 2, I noticed he was using an old digitech rack crap.  I asked him why: the answer was clear: modulation delay.  Having your echoes mixing with your ---good--- dry tone and then going into chorus gives you a 3D tone no other effect can give you in monophony.  And analog pro tone completes this picture for total heaven.

4- Magic Effect level knob
Just like in the MEISTERSINGER, crazy tones can be musical thanks to this magic knob.  Adjust your most out-of-this-world fave setting and then use it with parsimony with the EFFECT LEVEL knob to achieve tonal expertise.

The MB2 uses high-tech construction and combines it with hand-built tone for the best of both worlds.  Using discrete components for tone and high-tech components for non-tone, Jacques has merged his best handmade designs into a coherent electronic device.  The MB2 emulates the heavenly union between perfect fuzz pedals and raging plexi 100-watters.  The resulting complex interaction - known as the best guitar tone ever heard by human ears - is now available in this modern compact stompbox.  Key to the Mercer’s extensive operating ranges are its uniquely named controls.  HATE introduces an immense low range, while lack of LOVE takes off the harmonics and gain.  BLOOD brings intense life and FUZZ brings in distortion with no limits.  Level acts much like a guitar volume, allowing the user to “clean-up” their sound as they roll it off.  All these controls are highly interactive, and different combinations will yield vastly different results.

When set at full distortion, the Mercer Box is fireworks splendor breaking the night.  At ease with single coil pick-ups or humbuckers, the Mercer lets loose a world of excess, bringing your amp to new frontiers beyond any description.  And the extraordinary feature of the Mercer is that you can decrease this huge distortion tone gradually down to clean, simply using your guitar volume knob.  In the past stompbox history, numerous attempts to morph distortion in real time have failed, but here and now you get a fully effective remote distortion controller for free.  Little finger maestro guitarists ala Steve Morse will find this just one more reason to own a Mercer Box 2.  One of the rare high-gain distortion pedals to offer a brilliant clean tone, the MB2 is stronger, warmer, and richer when engaged than when bypassed.  Very reminiscent of the best tube amps, the MB2 clean tone is so addictive you could leave it on all the time, or buy a second Mercer Box just for distortion!