CalineCP-12 Pure Sky Overdrive Pedal

This pedal is fantastic. As a clean boost it absolutely brilliant. No hum or buzz at all. You can use it with the gain at 0 and it's just a pure clean sound and what a boost...all the way to 11! It's transparent too so you if you keep the tone and bass at 12 it doesn't colour the sound of your instrument or amp. But you can also dial up or down the bass and treble if you want to. If you use the gain you get a lovely warm overdrive with a good amount of range. It works well in conjunction with my blues breaker, fuzz and distortion pedals and is also lovely on it's own. It can clean boost the other pedals or add some amp breakup tone/sound with a little gain added. I found this worked best with the gain at 10 O Clock. For some reason the gain becomes a bit noisy when used in conjunction with my compressor pedal but that could be down to my compressor. Further investigation needed.I believe it is a Timmy clone and in fairness I haven't tried the Timmy but I know the Timmy is 4/5 times the price of the Pure Sky and online reviews put them as being very close in performance and sound. I'm not mad on the look of the pedal and I think the paint job cheapens it a bit, but it is solid and the dials and potentiometers seem to be very smooth with nice resistance. The only negative I can see is that the power supply socket it not connected to the casing from the inside and feels a little weak as a result. It operates fine but if you were rough with it I could see it bending or breaking. It doesn't take a battery internally btw, but it came with a 9 volt battery adapter cable so you could use an external battery if needed. Amazing pedal for the £25

People say this is like a 'Timmy', and I was looking for something to add a bit more life as a cleanish boost into my modelling set up. It has made a huge difference for not a lot of money, helping just add more sparkle and depth to the amp sounds on my headrush gigboard. The sound is pretty clean with no additional hum or buzzing, it's well built and very solid. The only slight negative is the cheap pedal switch which is a 'clicking' one rather than soft touch. But at this price that's not an issue.I've also tried this in front of my Blackstar valve amp, and again it's pretty transformative. I'm loving building up a collection of these cheap pedals to mess around with.Highly recommend trying this out for the money, it will be staying on my board and likely staying on all the time.

Looks good and sounds great my only complaint and reason for 4 not 5 stars is slight imperfection in the bottom plate lining up with the main case of the pedal there both made form metal there a bit of overhand wich has bit of a sharp edge not gonna cut me it's just realy annoying me lol and I don't expect any sharp edges on any item I buy

This is an outstanding pedal irrelevant of how affordable it is. I must admit I have no previous experience with the drive pedal it's based on, the 'Timmy' you'll see lots of direct comparisons on YouTube to see how it stacks up side by side, but in general this is an outstanding pedal, I've added it to my pedal board and used it numerous times live. There is a vast amount of drive on tap to make it versatile for whatever genre you play, you can use it as a boost or a straight overdrive pedal into a clean amp, to be honest I now hardly use my tubescreamer as this covers all the same sort of territory for my purposes. It does the classic rock/blues thing great. It's powered by a standard 9v DC cable. Don't believe it has an option for battery power but these days everyone uses a power supply. Overall this is a fantastic device, can't believe how good it is for the price, it's earned its place amongst all my significantly more expensive pedals. Admittedly the metal chassis doesn't feel the most robust, and I'd imagine the artwork would chip off if you dropped it but it's a minor inconvenience never in any danger of feeling cheap or likely to break. I also really like the actual footswitch, really easy to turn off and on. Would highly recommend taking the plunge and getting this to anyone interested.

This is a very pretty pedal with amazing sounds. The overdrive goes from zero, all through the subtle breakup zone and into some nice distorted tones. It has an excellent range in my opinion and all of the positions on the gain control sound beautiful. The range on the tone controls is subtle but covers enough ground to be very useful in shaping the tone without having silly extremes to avoid.The finish on the case isn't perfect but this a £27 pedal so that's not expected and the case is metal at least. What is top quality though is the feel and resistance of the knobs. They're smooth with a firm gluey resistance that means you can gently nudge the knob up or down just a tiny bit if needed. You'll never spin it too far but you can go through the full range easily too.I usually record guitar through amp and fx sims in my computer but nothing I have can give the tone and sound quality of this cheap little gorgeous pedal!Finally, as a bonus it comes with 4 little stick-on rubber feet and an adapter cable so you can plug in a battery and plug it into the 9v power supply port - handy!