James Usher

James Usher

Edison Glass

Wow, what a great sounding pedal! Hard to explain, but it doesn’t feel like a pedal… a flexible preamp seems more like it. Ads for overdrive pedals always love to feature the word “transparent”, but I’ve never actually felt that description was accurate until I played the G-Drive. I use it through my cleaner amps as a distortion pedal and through my dirtier amps as a boost…that’s flexibility I can appreciate.

James Usher

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  • Edison Glass
  • 82 Fender Bullet
  • 62 Fender American Jazzmaster RI
  • 08 Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster
  • 77 Fender Musicmaster
  • SWELL G-Drive (boost/drive)
  • Z-vex Super Hard-On (boost/preamp)
  • Analogman “Juicer” (comp)
  • Menatone Fish Factory (drive)
  • Z-vex Super Hard-On (boost/preamp)
  • byoc Large Beaver (fuzz)
  • Foxrox Octron (oct up, down)
  • byoc Wah (wah)
  • Fender Phaser (phaser/vib)
  • Ernie Ball VP Jr. (volume)
  • Diamond Memory Lane (analog mod/tap delay)
  • byoc Delay (digital delay)
  • SIB Electronics Echodrive + (digital tube delay)
  • Damage Control Timeline (stereo digital tube tap delay/mod)
  • Electrosonic Amplifiers Solaris (class A 7watt head)
  • Electrosonic Custom 112 speaker cab with a 12" Weber California
  • Marshall Bluesbreaker 212 combo (1 greenback, 1 G12H)
  • Fender Blues Jr. through a “detuned” 112 Avatar cab 12" Hellatone G12M