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Te koop aangeboden: de Cornerstone Gladio Double Preamp. Een van de beste Dumble pedals ooit gemaakt en helaas niet meer verkrijgbaar in deze dubbel kanaalsuitvoering (wel in een single channel variant door Cornerstone voor 279 Euro).

Dit betreft de orginele dubbele variant met extra switching en voicing opties. De beschrijving van Cornerstone:

"[The Gladio] is an amp-like overdrive and preamp, designed to be the foundation of your tone. Touch-sensitive and dynamic, it responds like a real amp, shaping smooth, expressive breakup and rich harmonics."

Een uitgebreide review op YT is van That Pedal Show (aflevering: "Best of the Best Dual Overdrive Pedals").

Cornerstone is een boutique firm in Italië. Alle Gladio Double Preamps zijn handgemaakt.

Het pedaal is uit te testen in Utrecht Terwijde (vlakbij de A2 richting Amsterdam). Helaas geen doos beschikbaar.

Zie advertentie voor vraagprijs. Ruil tegen pedalen van Hello Sailor Effects, Flattley, Vemuram of andere boutiques zijn bespreekbaar.

Enkele online reviews:

Ed Oleszko (Guitar.c)

"We test the Gladio with a Strat and a Goldtop through the mighty Two-Rock Bloomfield – one of our favourite modern takes on the ‘D’ sound – and also an old tweed Deluxe for contrast. Emilio recommends starting with a clean tone, so running a Strat into the Two-Rock set clean, we stomp on side one of the Gladio and we’re immediately struck both by the audacious weight of the tone, and the sheer gain and headroom available on tap.

Lower gain settings give us beautiful, blooming edge-of-breakup tones with a bold and immediate attack. There’s smooth soft clipping, huge sustain and dazzling, amp-like touch response. Up the gain you are rewarded with focused, articulate lead tones that simply roar from the speakers but flip the ‘comp’ switch if you’re seeking lower headroom and a smoother ride.

Switching to the smaller tweed amp, the tones are no less impressive and the P-90s in our Goldtop enjoy side two’s more aggressive hard clipping. The ‘jazz/rock’ switch changes the midrange voice, with the rock position particularly excelling for American-voiced slide that verges on fuzz. Switch to double mode and stack both drives to transform a vintage combo into a colossal multi-channel monster, capable of handling just about any genre.

Do you get the message that we like it yet? It’s not cheap – well, it is compared to an actual Dumble – but the Gladio’s huge, eloquent tones, precise note attack, effortless sustain and uncanny, Klon-like ability to make every amp and guitar you use with it sound bigger, clearer and better cannot fail to impress. When all this is combined with its seriously impressive build quality, we’re well and truly smitten."

Humbucker Soup:

"Have you ever played a pedal that blew your socks off when you hit that first chord? Well this is one of those pedals. Let me introduce Cornerstone Music Gear’s Gladio double preamp pedal. (...)

We ran the Gladio through my dual-humbucker Stratocaster and standard Telecaster-style guitars into a Boss IR-2 direct to great effect for our demo. I also ran it into my Fender amp and it was no surprise that the Gladio was right at home with both guitars and gear. We dialed in some great warm pushed boost tones all the way into thick overdrive and got some surprisingly great high gain tones, which led to some really fun extended playing sessions.

The Gladio was able to belt out some really great thick chord voicing, yet the notes had great definition even at higher gain settings. We took the pedal around the dials to see if we could dial in a bad tone. There was none to be had anywhere in the pedal. The Cornerstone Gladio is not only a well made pedal, but the tones are extremely inspiring and fun, especially when you can find endless variations combining the channels in new ways.

Running the pedal’s channels individually gave us some really good results, but the combinations of switching between the compression and jazz/rock settings made the Gladio an extremely versatile and fun tone factory that will please any discerning blues and rock player. This pedal has made it onto my board and it is likely to stay."