ABOUT THE REVIVALDRIVE COMPACT
With the original RevivalDRIVE, our goal was to design the best-sounding, most flexible overdrive pedal we could. Because our
favourite guitar tones of all time come from plugging straight into a vintage, non-master-volume valve amp, turned up loud, we made
that our starting point.
By recreating every stage of a valve amp’s signal path using all-analogue components, with discrete transistor-based circuitry
standing in for the valves themselves, we succeeded in capturing the sound and circuit behaviour of a wide spectrum of classic amps.
That’s just one side of the RevivalDRIVE’s flexibility. While most overdrives tend to work well with one style of amp and less well
with others, we wanted our pedal to sound great into lots of different amps, so we added a number of controls that would tailor the
tone leaving the pedal to suit its eventual destination.
With the RevialDRIVE Compact, we wanted to take everything players loved about the RevivalDRIVE and distil it into a slimmed-
down pedal with a simpler set of controls, making it much easier to dial in a great sound. To this end, the RevivalDRIVE Compact
features exactly the same valve amp-style circuit topology but in single-channel format and with newly designed rectifier circuitry
voiced midway between a solid-state rectifier and a GZ34 rectifier valve.
Another unique feature is the Highs control, which takes the original pedal’s three distinct preamp voicing modes and maps them
onto a single, continuous knob that offers a wealth of new in-between settings. We also redesigned the Blend control to simultaneously
back off the gain as you mix in your clean tone, ensuring pleasing, musical results throughout the control’s travel.
Finally, we designed an ingenious new Post-Drive EQ filter that, together with a three-way mode switch, makes the process of
adjusting the pedal to suit your amp much more intuitive.
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