Blues Believer – Assembled version

The original transparent overdrive

Overdrives were already plentiful at the time, yet when the original circuit that inspired the Blues Believer made its apparition in 1991,
guitarists were delighted to have access to that vintage British amp-inspired tone.
When the term British sound gets mentioned, it usually brings to mind the fat warm crunch of a Plexi,
but the FX Teacher Blues Believer has a different sonic color to it.
It is a bright overdrive, the original transparent overdrive (without the clean sound being added to the crunch),
truly respectful of your amp and guitar’s personality, mindful of the dynamics in your playing, while supplying all the fat and harmonically loaded sustain typical of tube amps.
The FX Teacher Blues Believer can be used as your basic crunch on a super clean amp, as a boost to push it to the other side,
as an extra source of fat on an amp that’s already cooking, or even as a way of making a crappy rental amp feel decent and more flattering.

Overdrive or distortion?

Like most overdrive pedals, the FX Teacher Blues Believer has the three classic settings we all know and love.
Out controls the output level, Gain controls the saturation level and Tone controls the brightness of your tone.
The original circuit had a weird interdependence between the Gain and brightness that we decided to keep, creating a brighter sound as your turn up the gain.
That is precisely why we added the Voice switch, in order to tame the higher frequencies.
The other switch, called Disto, adds a third saturation stage to the classic two-stage circuit in order to reach unprecedented levels of gain that take it all the way to a true distorsion.
And in case that’s not enough for you, two trimpots inside the pedal will push the gain even further.
Proceed with caution though, your legato licks might become a little too easy to play.

Handmade with love, by Anasounds or yourself!

As always with FX Teacher, the Blues Believer is available as a kit or a pre-assembled pedal,
and the looks of the pedal make it stand out with a rainy scene straight out of a 50s noir movie.
Who knows what the depicted detective might be looking for, but if he’s trying to find the ultimate overdrive, he should really be looking into the FX Teacher Blues Believer.