The Plextortion is a distortion pedal that was originally designed to emulate a “JCM800®” with Celestion Greenbacks (If you think of those great tones from Back in Black era AC/DC, all the way through to (post DLR) Van Halen, Dokken, Ratt, Guns'N'Roses and all those amazing 80's rock “cranked Marshall” tones). It has a very brown sounding distortion, in a way, quite similar to our Pinnacle pedal.

It differs from the Pinnacle in that it is a tighter distortion, more like pre amp tube distortion where the pinnacle is a bit looser, more like power tube distortion. This difference, although hardly noticeable to your average person, is hugely important when looking for “that” sound, Never before has a pedal given that high gain tone that would appear to be pre-amp driven and power-amp driven.

I've noticed that some guys like play their distortion pedals that emulate Marshall tones THROUGH a Marshall. Let's be honest - I can play a chorus pedal through a Marshall and get a very “Marshally” sounding chorus pedal... In my opinion this isn't a fair or accurate representation of a pedal. Because of this, I record my clips and videos through everyday affordable guitars and amps in order to be as accurate as possible.

       

All I have to say is the Plextortion is BADASS!!!! I have already used on 3 songs in the Studio. And I use it a lot live.

The plextortion sounded amazing Saturday night at my gig. I could not believe the sound. Thanks again for the great pedal

Brian, I just wanted to say that I am so pleased with my Plextortion. The other guitarist in the band knew immediately what it sounded like as he once played out of a Marshall JCM 800. Again, worth the wait but the Plextortion is just great.

Brian....phenominal pedal! The controls are very sensitive (a good thing!) AND I cant get a bad sound out of it. I love being able to crank the volume on the distortion and keep the solo volume lower to get a nice thick grind! It's total Marshall-100%. -I've found my tone!- .

This is the pedal I've been searching for for over ten years.... Even though it was modeled after a JCM 800, this pedal, so far, is the closest to getting those eighties George Lynch/Van Halen/Warren DiMartini modded Marshall tones I have ever heard.

I play a Bogner Shiva who's clean channel is very particular about distortion pedals. I've tried everything under the sun to get those above mentioned tones.... To me they either don't have enough gain or sound too fizzy and everyone of them misses the essential element to what a true modded cranked plexi really sounds like - the midrange. You guys nailed it. If you listen to early Dokken like "the Hunter" and "In My Dreams", there's just a growl to the tones that no pedal has ever enabled to come through my amps until now. (same thing with that Angus Young plexi "bark" - sorry but the Box of Rock just doesn't get it and Zach Vex himself said it's not supposed to - based on a JTM 45 which is a different animal.

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