Scarlett Love V2
Nigel Hendroff's signature transparent overdrive with three-way clipping switch (TS/Plexi/Diode Lift), offering smooth natural breakup and clean boost capabilities.
The Selah Effects Scarlett Love V2 is signature overdrive pedal of guitarist Nigel Hendroff, designed to deliver exceptional transparency and natural amp-like breakup. This pedal has earned reputation as one of most transparent overdrive pedals available, maintaining fundamental character of your guitar and amplifier while adding smooth, musical saturation. V2 represents evolution of original Scarlett Love design, refining circuit to achieve even better clarity and dynamic response.
Pedal features three-knob layout with Gain, Tone, and Volume controls, each offering considerable range for precise tonal shaping. Gain control determines amount of overdrive, from completely clean to rich, sustaining saturation. Importantly, gain circuit is designed to blend overdriven signal with your clean tone, which means that when Gain knob is set to zero, Scarlett Love functions as pristine clean boost, adding volume and presence without coloring your sound. This dual functionality makes it exceptionally versatile, serving as both transparent overdrive and utility boost pedal.
Defining feature of Scarlett Love V2 is its three-way toggle switch that selects between different clipping configurations: Tube Screamer style, Plexi style, and Diode Lift. TS mode provides classic mid-focused warmth and compression associated with tube screamer circuits, perfect for pushing tube amplifiers into natural breakup. Plexi mode offers more open, amp-like overdrive with enhanced clarity and harmonic complexity, reminiscent of Marshall Plexi amplifiers being driven hard. Diode Lift setting removes clipping diodes from circuit entirely, providing maximum headroom, dynamic range, and volume boost capability, ideal for pushing already-saturated amplifiers or creating subtle enhancement of clean tones.
Scarlett Love V2's circuit emphasizes transparency and natural dynamics, responding beautifully to playing technique, guitar volume adjustments, and pickup selection. It maintains note definition and clarity even at higher gain settings, ensuring that chord voicings remain articulate and complex passages don't turn to mush. Pedal requires standard 9V DC power supply and does not support battery operation. Its smooth, natural overdrive character makes it suitable for virtually any musical style, from jazz and blues to rock and country, and its clean boost mode ensures it has permanent place on any pedalboard. Scarlett Love V2 exemplifies philosophy that best overdrive pedals enhance rather than mask your core tone.
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