Delicious Audio: Maxon RTO700 Review

September 22nd, 2011 by

Our friends at Delicious Audio have reviewed the Maxon RTO700 overdrive pedal. Read on and click for Howard J. Stock’s entire review…

Is the Maxon RT070 worth the $389 price tag?

This summer, Maxon released the latest in a line of great overdrive pedals, the RTO700. The “RTO” stands for real tube overdrive, and indeed houses a tiny dual triode preamp tube instead of the usual clipping diode. Maxon certainly isn’t the first manufacturer to use real tubes in its overdrive pedals, but the RTO700 is the best I’ve heard.

I AB’d the RTO700 against the Maxon OD820, effectively a really good Tube Screamer that beats the bar set by the Ibanez original decades ago by increasing headroom and transparency. The RTO700 does the same to the OD820—and more.

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