Description
Some pedals are designed to add a little grit.
This one was designed with Meshuggah.
That should probably tell you where this is going.
The Fortin MESHUGGAH Signature Pre-Amp / Distortion is built for brutally tight, articulate high-gain tones with the kind of fast response and low-end control that modern metal players obsess over. Fortin developed the pedal specifically around the tonal world of Meshuggah, with the goal of delivering crushing gain without turning extended-range guitars into an indistinct wall of low-frequency soup.
It can function as a full preamp or as a high-gain distortion pedal, making it useful whether you're building a pedal-based rig, running into an amp's effects return, or simply looking to introduce a highly inappropriate amount of aggression into an otherwise civilized amplifier setup.
The real trick here is definition. Heavy gain is easy. Heavy gain that still lets you hear exactly what your picking hand is doing is considerably harder.
Features:
- Official Fortin / Meshuggah signature preamp and distortion pedal
- Designed for extremely tight modern high-gain tones
- Fast attack and controlled low-end response
- Excellent articulation under heavy saturation
- Works as a preamp or distortion platform
- Especially well suited to downtuned and extended-range guitars
- Built for modern metal, progressive metal, and anyone whose riffs have more decimal places than chord changes
This is not the pedal for someone looking for "a tasteful little bit of breakup."
This is the pedal for someone who has already tuned down, added another string, and decided the drummer needs to work harder.