Back in 2017, Old Blood Noise Endeavors released The Fault Overdrive/Distortion, a two-channel overdrive pedal with controls for volume, independent gain knobs, and a three-band-EQ.
Three years later, they’ve brought us the Fault V2, which comes with a few new features that I’m simply in love with. Oh yeah, and instead of the EQ being knobs, it’s sliders, which I dig the hell out of.
In terms of the new stuff, let’s start with the things that happen before the first gain stage. The Fault V2 has a Voice knob, which controls the tone before it hits the 3-band EQ. It gives you a ton of control over the shaping of your tone, and I find myself using it more than I usually use tone controls.
Next is a toggle called Boost. When the toggle is down, your first gain stage is lower gain. Flipping the toggle up activates the boost, which gives you a lot more GRRRR.
Next is the toggle on the right, which is the Crunch toggle. Down is normal, and up activates two diodes at the end of everything, and adding that extra clipping is super nice.
Your second gain stage is controlled by the left footswitch, and that gain just has the one knob to add more. All the way to the left is essentially no extra gain, but it gets really dirty when you turn the knob right, depending on the first gain stage.
Guitar is Fender Jazzmaster with pickups based on the ’65 models and 1967 Fender Coronado
Amp is Strymon Iridium (round, b)
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