Overall Rating
(38)
Helmut Zahn
/ Oct 13th 2019
Makes your guitar sound full and responsive. It adds what has been missing ....
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 10th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 10th 2019
Good
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 1st 2019
Great sounding pedal. A nice addition to my expanding pedal board and my go-to overdrive at present. If you're considering this, be aware that it has a charge pump which may create some minor audible interference with some other pedals.
Mr Christer Boberg
/ Apr 19th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 17th 2018
Excellent
Mr Bruno Alva
/ Oct 9th 2018
Excellent
Jim
/ Jun 9th 2016
Excellent
Roland
/ May 6th 2016
Does more than just boost gives that thing that is missing from most amps tried through BB combo two fenders my Artisan 15 combo my classic 30 combo and JVM Marshall all now better for this pedal
Karel
/ Mar 9th 2016
Using it as a clean-ish boost with gain around 9-11 o'clock and it definitely has that magic thing that enhances the tone and sustain, especially for single notes. Tons of clean headroom to push a tube preamp to saturation if you want.
Cannot compare it to the original Klon but this thing plays great. Stacking with other OD pedal makes them sound better to my ears.
Michele
/ Feb 19th 2016
The JRAD Archer is by far the best boost pedal I have ever tried!
Julien
/ Feb 15th 2016
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 12th 2016
Does what it says on the label
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 21st 2015
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 19th 2015
Great pedal lives up to the hype.
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 9th 2015
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 5th 2015
Great overdrive - very well built item
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 4th 2015
Good
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 3rd 2015
Lovely, harmonic overdrive. Very happy with it.
Trusted Customer
/ Jun 23rd 2015
Amazing pedal just has the right amount of mojo to make your sound better!!
Trusted Customer
/ Jun 20th 2015
Thankfully this pedal lives up to all the hype! Number one on the board
Trusted Customer
/ May 22nd 2015
In the front room it sounded a bit thin - then I tried it at rehearsal - wow!
Trusted Customer
/ May 22nd 2015
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ May 8th 2015
Everything that was promised in recent reviews
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 20th 2015
Fantastic
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 16th 2015
Great buy. The best od i've heard or used.
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 15th 2015
Wonderful sounds - one of the great pedals
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 13th 2015
Having watched a stack of reviews and applications on youtube.com I wasn't sure if I was going to use it as clean boost or as a full fat OD pedal.
The first thing I noticed as I removed it from the very cool Rockett Pedals branded box, is that this pedal is hefty! it feels like it should be twice the price or more. Now all reviews are subjective and are based totally on the player and the gear being used and I use a Gibson Les Paul Traditional into a Marshall JCM2000 DSL 100 head and Marshall 1936v cab and a Marshall DSL 40C (brighter sounding than the JCM2000).
So upon firing up the Archer, the first thing that hits you is the clarity. Either on its own or driving the input of my amps there is no wolleyness or tone suckage from this pedal, like the Rothwell Hellbender it is very transparent. The second thing I noticed is that the tone control is very responsive and you can go from warm mellow to shrill fizz in the space of a gnats wedding tackle so you need to be very careful with this control, the output control seems to alter the overall output volume as you would expect although it kind of responds differently depending on the application of the pedal.
Using this pedal as a clean boost the volume knob does increase the overall volume when running into the front of a clean amp, but when pushing the front end of a slightly dirty amp it boosts volume as well as slightly increasing the gain. When using the pedal as full fat OD pedal, the volume acts pretty much exclusively as a volume boost for the pedal. I have not yet had a chance to use this pedal with an 18v supply to see how much of a difference the alleged extra headroom makes.
Back to the plot! It would appear that I would have to completely re-EQ my amps in order to use this pedal as a full fat OD which I am not prepared to do at this point, so I am resigned to using it a boost pedal. I currently use my TS808 with the gain off and the level/tone to taste, and I use it in front of my Rothwell Hellbender to act as a solo boost to give my sound more of a mid bump and a slight level/gain boost and to be honest, it is just great. However I also sometimes use the TS808 on its own to give me nice clean crunch sound with a ton of dynamics for more bluesy numbers, but the TS808 does seem to **** a little life from the tone which is nice in some ways as it gives a very vintage feel, but you do loose some of the signal clarity.
So setting the Archer up in a very similar way (output 11 o'clock treble 10 o'clock and gain 9 o'clock) I am very pleased with the initial result as I am sure I will be spending copious amounts of time in the future tweaking this pedal. What I have noticed when using the Archer in this way is that it does give me that slight level/gain boost for solos which sounds great but it doesn't have as much of a mid bump. Now this is not all bad as the Archer appears to be totally transparent preserving the pure tone of the Marshall amp and the Rothwell Hellbender without any kind of colouring. My sound appears to have so much more clarity and definition, while accentuating nuances of my tone when I dig in and pinch harmonics, backing of the guitar volume whilst using the TS808 in this way would result in loss of clarity and definition and making the sound go a little muddy, but with the Archer it just cleans up so well even with the extra gain going through the signal, music to all us blues guitarist's ears!
In conclusion, but I can only conclude my findings based on using the pedal as boost, I would give this pedal an initial 7.9 out of 10 although I feel there is so much more to gain given time and much tweakage.
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 18th 2015
All I hoped it would be!
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 15th 2015
This is a great pedal, couldn't believe how tiny it is though! Certainly not flimsy, well made quality enclosure.
It also has the added benefit of sounding absolutely fantastic. Definitely one of those 'on all the time' pedals. I can't really describe it except to say it just makes your sound better.
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 14th 2015
Super pedal.
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Trusted Customer
/ Mar 12th 2015
I have an original zilver Klon and it sounds great but I wanted some smaller pedals on the board and to me this J Rockett pedal is just as good but in a nice small package.
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 12th 2015
Just what I was looking for!
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 2nd 2015
Very please, this is an outstanding pedal that certainly packs a considerable "punch'. This pedal is highly recommended and a worthy contender to the Klon Centaur.
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 1st 2015
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 1st 2015
Thinking about adding 1more of these pedals to my set up really great value. My Klone is now locked safey away thanks Brian .
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 1st 2015
Amazing sound quality from such a small affordable pedal.Glad I have one .
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 1st 2015
Superb drive pedal.
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 27th 2014
Cool, coool, cooooool! That's all I can say.
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 25th 2014
I love this pedal. Great tone
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 25th 2014
Well worth the wait - infront of a decent valve amp, this is just the best OD/boost ever. Really natural and responsive - just as good as the hype.
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