Brett Kingman | 1 month ago

https://goat-design.jp/en/product/generator-2/
If you're a 70s or 80s kid like me chances are you will be very familiar with the tones of one Mr Tom Scholz and his band Boston. Mr Scholz invented tons of gear to produce and record those tones. He also wrote the hit songs - the guy's a genius. Scholz Research & Development came a few years later and the Rockman was born. Then a whole bunch of cool rack stuff. The Distortion Generator was one of those devices and is still used and coveted today. The folks at GOAT (Rancher.Inc) of Japan have basically cloned the now out-of-production Distortion Generator and popped it into a pedal complete with all of the original's functions and two footswitches; one for on/off and the other for boost (LEAD). And it is a LOT of fun! It also sounds just like the real thing. Rock on.

Special thanks to Mic at Rancher Inc. and to RJ Ronquillo for alerting me to this ace pedal.

Today's tools:

Guitar: Justin Aufdemkampe Signature Ltd. Ed Charvel (see: https://www.charvel.com/features/justin-aufdemkampe)
Amp: Axe-FX III MKII running Cygnus FW 19.08 - Fender Twin 'blackface' model
Cables: BOSS
Power Supply: Eventide PowerMax by Cioks
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro and Canon D60
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum & Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX III MKII (guitar, mixing and bouncing).
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors (https://www.presonus.com)
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Software: Logic Pro X, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Compressor.