The Moog Minifooger MF Drive is a guitar effects pedal designed with the same intelligence as the Moogerfooger effects modules.
The Moog Minifooger MF Drive features a multi-stage filter overdrive with a selectable drive range and a variety of controls, including Gain, Drive, Filter and Tone to customise your sound. The pedal feeds the guitar’s signal through a Moog Ladder Filter, boutique FET amplifiers and classic operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) to produce reactive overdrive with incredible dynamics and harmonics.
The tone of the MF Drive ranges from a creamy British amp overdrive to the crisp, fuzzy tone of a cranked American tube amp. There’s even an input for an expression pedal, which, when used with the Peak switch engaged, uses the onboard filters to offer fuzz wah tones. The MF Drive works well as a dirty boost pedal also, pushing an already cranked high-gain amp for a boosted tone, ideal for lead playing.
The main features of the Moog Minifooger MF Drive include:
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I guess this is one of the distortion boxes I have been searching for quite a long time. QOTSA tones are pouring out of it immediately. Actually it is quite difficult to get anything really bad out of it - every knob position would have its own place somewhere in the repertoire. Mid-gain stoner rock, alternative indie etc. is what it does best. "Low-gain with a touch of dynamic fuzz" settings for bluesier stuff are also OK, but I prefer my Tonebender for that - but anyway we are walking in the very picky boutique overdrive-fuzz enthusiast territory.
Typical heavy-metal, nu-metal, emo, shredding etc. players should keep their distance.