And make no mistake the Dover Drive has A LOT of mid range. This completely changes the character of the pedal, from sounding bright and boomy, like David’s tones, to dark and smooth, with more emphasis on the mid range. He’s always set the Hi and Lo (treble and bass) very low. And it sounds awesome!Īs the name implies, the Dover Drive is perhaps more oriented around Eric Johnson’s way of using the Tube Driver. This is not a clone or solid state pedal board friendly version of the Tube Driver. Is this really a Tube-Driver-Gilmour-in-a-box? The answer is no. Inside the pedal, there’s also a bias trim pot, allowing you to fine tune the gain stage. The Dover Drive is housed in a MXR-sized’ish chassis, with true bypass switching and it runs on 9V battery or Boss-style power adapter. Using the familiar graphics known from the overdrive pedal that’s as synonymous with Gilmour as the Big Muff, is risky business. Like many of you, I’m sure, I though “a Tube Driver clone? Do they dare? And without a tube?” Well, they asked for it. Here’s my review of the Hermida Audio Dover Drive from Lovepedal. Every once in a while a pedal pops up with a special appeal to us Gilmour nerds and with obvious references to a legendary overdrive pedal, I had to check out this one.
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