Parabellum Drive by NightOwl Industries - Pedal Demo

Опубликовано: 24 Июль 2021
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After bringing us fantastic tube and analog creations such as Q the EQ, and the Oscar Tube Preamp, Nightowl Industries joins forces with Dunwich Amps to bring us the Parabellum Drive.

I've used the pedal on all of the guitar and bass tracks you hear on this track with almost no processing so you could get a clear idea of what it truly sounds like.

The oscillation and feedbacks you hear at the end were all done with the pedal and I am changing the pitches of the feedbacks by changing the knob parameters. Quite literally squeezing the evil noises out of this thing.

The track might sound huge but there are 'only' 6 guitar tracks playing everything, bass, and drums, that is it!

Notice how I've used this pedal on it's lower gain settings to get the first segments of the track for the arpeggios and guitar line and then pushed it for the heavy segments for the screaming solo and heavy riffs.

I've used the Two Notes 'Le Clean' as a preamp and I switched between its clean and dirty channels so I could get fat distortion sounds along with some thinner noisy tones. I then ran the 'Le Clean' pre-amp into a Two Notes 'CAB M+' as a cabinet simulator.

I love how the Parabellum added so much character and grit to the sound. You can notice how some of the parts sound almost percussive with a real uniqueness to their tone. It definitely sounds far more distinctive then a generic drive pedal.

I'm playing a Reverend DAW guitar which has a humbucker at the bridge position and a P90 at the neck position so you could get wide range of different driven tones from the pedal that way. There were no other pedals used on the track besides the Parabellum Drive. All the fuzz and nasty distortion you're hearing is coming straight from the unit.

Another awesome feature is that the entire pedal is powered by your standard 9v pedal power supply. There are a lot of great sounding tube units out there but need a very specific power supply such as 18v or special designated power units. This one's really easy to add to your board.

Here's some technical specs about the Parabellum Drive:

The Parabellum features an all tube EF86 preamp driving a 3 stage parallel germanium distortion with active and passive eq's, a tube boost switch, and a master volume switch.
The distortion stage begins with a buffer that splits the signal into three, with each going to a different germanium distortion; one traditional, one higher gain, and one hybrid diode/germanium distortion.

The eq section features the same musical interval spacing used in QtheEQ but expands it to add bright and depth switches which lay a perfect fourth in interval above and below the bass and treble controls, respectively.

The mid boost switch fills out the mids for a multitude of available tones. The Depth switch is tuned very low (43hz) which adds a percussive effect to lower tuned instruments and synths.

The mix of three distinct voices, each being processed independently then mixed back together, creates a dense, complex distortion not attainable through traditional, in-series processing. Parabellum runs on standard 9v DC voltage and requires 250ma of current, so no wall wart is required.