Warm Audio Centavo Overdrive

the pedal sounds fantastic. saturation is creamy, little emphasis on mediums but sparkly and with MOD on bassy enough. Could be the only overdrive you'll actually need, and this is truer than ever BECAUSE.. because despite the buffered bypass, despite the modern construction, won't accept well anything before it. I've put several pedals upstream, true bypass or not, and the result is a little but evident loss in the highs on the Centavo. even true bypass pedals set to off do this. If you own two pedals that have this syndrome (i have several) you're stuck, in my case a fuzzface wants to be first, if i do so the Centavo results to be less sparkly, acceptable, but you won't get 100% from it. If i put the fuzzface after it, the fuzzface sounds oversaturated and unacceptable. So: put pedals after it, if you can.

If you're looking for a boost/low overdrive pedal with a Klon style overdrive, this is the one. At €120 cheaper than the J. Rockett Jeff Archer, the only con I could think of is the size of the tin. To me it's not an issue, but if you have a small pedalboard, it might be the difference between having the pedal of having to choose a small footprint pedal.

As for the sound, it does exactly what I expected of it, for my use. I wanted something that I could use both as a low overdrive for rythm and a boost for soloing. I just set it up for a low overdrive with a bit of a mid boost which works great for rythm parts, and just turn on the fuzz for a solo. It compresses the fuzz and balances the big low-end that fuzzes usually have. For my use, it's a like a two in one pedal, I love it.