The Blue Drive 1 explores that area where boost turns to overdrive, starting off as a fine clean boost with the drive down, moving on to add grit to a medium-level drive, along with a wide-ranging tone control, which can get strident in the top end if ice-pick tone is called for.
Nicely responsive, this is a pedal that reacts whether you are gently caressing the strings or digging in with aggression. LunaStone states the inspiration for the pedal comes from the blues genre and the marketing of the name reflects that.
However, we believe that an overdrive is an overdrive and shouldn’t be limited to a particular musical ghetto. This is a particularly good one and while it - justifiably - might be right up a blues player’s street, it’s really for anyone who wants to extend the range of their clean amp into something a little grittier with more top-end bite.
