Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire
User Reviews of the Creation Audio Labs Holy Fire
- Submitted by Michael from Charlotte, NC (18 points) on Apr 19, 2010
- The Holy Fire is a straight-forward pedal with above average sound!
The pedal has four control that work as follows:
OVERDRIVE ---> DISTORTION ---> GAIN ---> HI-CUT
The Overdrive feeds the Distortion and both can be used independently -- kicking up the Overdrive make the Distortion growl more. The Distortion goes into some heavy compression around 2 O'clock which is real nice. The Gain on its own can kick your amp into overdrive -- the Gain is a volume knob and maxed out can kick the gain on the pedal even higher. The Hi-cut simply acts to filter our any buzzy highs. Using your guitar's volume this pedal will clean up to zero drive. - Good Points: The pedal is very dynamic with the ability to clean up by lowering the volume knob on your guitar. The pedal also works very well with another overdrive pedal feeding it.
My setup is:
Guitar ---> Fulltone Full Drive 2 Mosfet ---> Holy Fire ---> Egnater Rebel 20 ---> 2 x 12 vintage 30 sealed cabinet. I have a TC Electronic Nova System in the loop of the amp.
I can go from super clean to AC/DC to EVH to Metallica and all pretty much from my guitar's volume. My only word of caution is that the bass is heavy on the pedal so alter your amp's EQ before your crank the volume. You can bottom out your speaker. Which does sound kinda cool! The bass is what sets this pedal apart. The tone is full not thin in any way what so ever.
This is not a "metal" pedal but can get right into it when another pedal is driving it. On it's own the pedal is hard rock drive, but kick in another drive pedal for more "scream".
The pedal is dead quiet at the highest gain levels and the pedal sounds GREAT!
The pedal does not alter your tone and has the most transparent gain I have ever heard. - Bad Points: The one thing to look out for is that the pedal has a heavy bottom so you may need to trim back the bass on your amp. This heavy bottom is what makes this pedal into a real monster. It truly like have a stack.
On other thing. The pedal has its own 48V adapter. Yeah it s a tad big, but it is worth it for the tone you get from this pedal. - Price Paid: US$199.00
- Purchased At: Creation Audio Labs
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