Hope everyone here in the States had a safe and delicious Thanksgiving yesterday, but we’re back with a vengeance following our brief holiday! Today, we are checking out the final pedal in a run of enclosures sent to us by the fine folks at RPS Effects, and these four pedals come to a close with an absolute monstrous bang. The Red Sun is an analog distortion pedal, one built to crush your eardrums while delivering a scorching tone that never gets too muddy or lost in any mix. Not for the faint of heart, let’s check this small but powerful yellow beast out, shall we?
Aside from the interesting and cool graphics, the Red Sun boasts about as simple of a control section as you’ll find on a distortion pedal: Level, Tone and Gain. Level adjusts the amount of output, volume-wise, the Red Sun puts out, and there’s plenty for you to play around with here. Tone boosts/cuts the treble frequencies, cutting off a bit of the harsher higher-end for a dark but still smooth distorted tone. Finally, Gain is a pre-distortion control, able to conjure up clean but powerful chords and sustained leads with minimal effort.
In short, as you’ll hear in the demo below, the Red Sun is a flat-out rock star. You can dial back the Gain for a bit more of a crunchy type of overdriven sound, or crank everything up to 11 for some crisp and ballsy distortion that will rock your (and everyone within earshot’s) world. Cheers for four excellent pedals (and possibly one more on the way, as their lineup has just changed) in this lineup of effects from RPS Effects – we hope to have more coming your way, keep an eye out soon for a special giveaway on our Instagram page and definitely don’t forget to check out the demo video below!
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