NUXPLEXI CRUNCH - Distortion Gain Plexi-type distortion Pedal

I'm mainly a Fender guy. I run Teles and Strats into pedals into a clean Hotrod Deluxe but also use a a clean Monoprice 15 watt tube amp at home, I've only tried this pedal out on the smaller amp but as I run the amps as a clean pedal platforms, I imagine that the performance will be equal if not better with the deluxe.I like good emulated Marshall distorted circuits and my main overdrive is a clone of a ZVEX distortron that I made that I use for light overdrive up to punk distortion but not really for metal crunch or high gain sounds (The distortron emulates smaller Marshall amps).I bought the Plexi Crunch to play a Therapy? cover and to see what it had to offer. It's a totally different beast, behaves differently to any other pedal that I have and offers a load of high gain options that sound amazing.I'll start with the clean sound. It hasn't got one! With the preamp (drive) fully down it still has distortion which might sound counterintuitive but they know what you want this for and have given you a sensible musical range rather than a cleaner sound that you can find elsewhere. Secondly the Tone is not a traditional Bass-Treble tone, it's a mids control which with high gain sounds getting that crunch while not scooping your way out of a mix is a more useful than tinkering with the highs. The presence knob does let you tinker with the highs until you find the bite that you want.In some ways the pedal takes you out of the traditional pedal comfort zone but it's endless fun adjusting the controls that are highly interactive; more preamp will have you thinking about different tone and presence as well as needing to adjust the master and as with the preamp all ofthe parameters of each control are tuned so that you never have a bad sound, just a range of great ones to pick so you're in a high gain ball park all of the time with an apropriate tonestack to tune your sound (s). I think if the ranges were wider you might find weird sounds but wouldn't stay in such a useful range, I love the thought that's gone into it.The price speaks for itself. We live in a golden age of inexpensive guitar pedals.

This is an awesome pedal but personally not what I would go for in a Marshall tone. It really does those hot rodded more compressed Marshall sounds extremely well and feels satisfying to play. It's still a keeper due to the low price and for the odd times I want that sound. Based on their Vox pedal, which they have nailed, if NuX made a proper 60's Superlead, JTM or 70s JMP pedal I would be all over them, they would nail them too!

This is 100% a Clone of the Friedman BE-OD pedal. Having tired both, the NUX is a really good effort! Past 12 it's almost to much going but before 12 it's the classic high gain Marshall. Personally I think it's more JCM900 territory rather than plexi.. amazing value for money and sounds absolutely killer!

A one trick pony like the JCM800? It does that particular modded plexi job very well. Great tone that makes you want to play. The power is in the active TONE control which scoops or boosts the MIDS and interacts with both the PRESENCE & PRE-AMP to produce most Marshall amp tones from 1980 to 2021.Above around 9 o'clock the PRE-AMP produces too much saturation & noise for me but others may find it useful.The chassis is metal and general construction acceptable, certainly giggable.Cleans up ok when guitar volume is rolled off but compared to a Tube pre-amp does lack bass and the output level is not great. However the lack of bass is actually good in a recording / band situation where the Bass Guitar does that job and is not muddied by the damn guitarist. So think Schenker & Marsden.At the price this is a no-brainer and, because the controls are so interactive & interdependent, way more "Plexi" than any other Plexi pedals I've tried.Not for everyone but be sparing with the PRESENCE & GAIN and you'll be using it more than you might expect.

I bought this to add some Marshall tones to a Vox AC10. Great pedal for the money and you can tweak it to get decent Appetite style Slash tones pretty quickly. It produces a thick wall of mid distortion that it a lot of fun- it is more a Marshall type distortion versus being a Marshall overdrive. You'll have fun if you like Billy Gibbons/Slash/Darkness or other thick Marshall ones.Please be aware there lots of gain even with Pre amp on zero- No classic clean Plexi tone with this- It is more JCM00/Vintage Modern territory. It gets quite fizzy about 9 oclock. I always keep Preamp below 8am or just on zero, Master at 12 and then fiddle with tone and presence. This pedal needs to be tweaked to fit the guitar you are using. One setting will be great on a Les Paul but you'll need to dial in a Strat differently. Use the volume on your guitar to bring the gain down for a crunchy rhythm tone and full up for solo.Two settings I prefer for humbuckers are shown in the pictures.

Very good distortion pedal good value for money. Arrived on time.