DIY Pedals: Mod Kits’ Persuader

Delicious Audio recently reviewed the Persuader by Mod Kits DIY. Read below for a taste and click through to Delicious for the full review.

The Persuader from MOD Kits DIY (available at modkitsdiy.com for about $65) is a U-build-it, starved plate, 12ax7 distortion box kit.  It arrives as a collection of parts to be assembled into a powder-coated purple, pre-drilled Hammond-style cast-aluminum box.

Assembly required.

And, from later in the review…

At low gain settings, The Persuader is almost a clean boost, and is capable of a fairly substantial level increase. At about 12:00 on the GAIN knob, distortion begins to creep in.  Between 12:00 and 3:00, The Persuader settles into a nice, bluesy, touch sensitive distortion.  Between about 3 and 4 o’clock, the distortion becomes a little nastier, and most of the dramatic change in the character of the distortion happens between 4 and 5 o’clock. Full-out, The Persuader is a really trashy, ’60s kind of overdrive. Think early Kinks, Communication Breakdown, that sort of thing. I let a friend of mine try this with a 335 into an old pawn-shop Magnatone Model 401, which sounded fantastic.

Click thru to Delicious Audio for the rest of this review, where author Ron Guensche also walks you through the assembly process.

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