Flux-Drive Overdrive Pedal Review

An overdrive made with care

If had to boil down all the things I love about this pedal for the sake of the reader I would say I love that it maintains your guitars natural tone. With the gain turned low its a great boost pedal, medium gain growls, and high gain is a distortion pedal. The bass and treble knobs really bring the whole thing together for me . Great job Mesa boogie thank you.

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Best Mesa OD Pedal

I recently wrote a review about a Mesa Gold Mine pedal. I was hoping it would be the successor for the Flux Drive pedal...it wasn't. The Flux Drive is still king of the hill for harmonically complex overdrive that is very tight, with clear note articulation...best overall low to high gain pedal I have for that killer Mesa sound. I use it to drive my Triaxis and Rectifier clean channels… read more at the edge of breakup...this pedal makes my clean channels sound better than my lead channels....less noise and more control over the gain. The 2 band eq works well also...i use the treble control for a slight treble cut and boost the bass a bit...the mids are perfect so you won't miss not having a mid-range frequency control. It works great to tighten up the Rectifier low end to make it roar with purpose. Just a great pedal even 7 years later.

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Perfect for my style

Never owned a Mesa/Boogie product before but won't be the last. It provides a very special rich full sound. Works well with other pedals. I was having writers block and well Carlos Santana was right Mesa Engineering's products adds some Boogie to your sound. It's one to learn but perfect. Plus the Sci Fi sounding name Flux Drive is even cool

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Still awesome compared to newer boutique pedals...

I have been using the Flux Drive pedal for about 3 years now. I also own / have tried many other OD pedals including the new Gold Mine pedal from Mesa (check out my review on that pedal if you are interested). let me start with saying the Flux Drive is still on my main front of amp pedal board. This pedal just sounds amazing....the overdrive and harmonics it creates blend perfectly… read more with the original tone to the point where you really can't tell where one begins and the other ends....the note clarity, even with high gain, is the best i have heard with the only pedal coming close being the Walrus Ages pedal. The Walrus pedal has dry signal blend capability. The Flux Drive is so well designed, that dry signal blending is not necessary. This is pure mesa tone by the way...sounds amazing on Mesa clean channel amps for sure. I use this pedal with my Mesa Triaxis and Rectifier preamp clean channels for high gain overdrive rhythm and lead tones. The pedal is equally impressive adding a gain stage to lead channels that have the gain turned down a bit at the amp. This pedal is unbeatable for the price.

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Great drive pedal

I use this mostly for jam sessions and it does not fail. Bass/treble knobs let you EQ when amp tone needs to be tweaked. And with boost and drive knobs you can adjust for high/low output amps and the right amount of distortion - for that sweet spot between clean and grit.

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