TC Electronic Nova Drive Review NDR-1
Mention the words ‘digital’ and ‘distortion’ together to your average guitarist and he’ll likely shout abuse as he hits you – justifiably so too. This is because while digital circuitry works very well for certain types of effect, only analogue can deliver the tone that we like for our distortion effects. Digital has some great advantages though – programmability and flexibility. It allows us to store patches as well as control things from other digital devices. Usually these two worlds do not meet, and we end up compromising either tone or control, depending on our preferences. The ambitious concept behind the Nova Drive is analogue circuitry for tone, digital for control and patches, packing two different analogue distortion effects (overdrive and distortion) in one relatively small stompbox. This isn’t overdrive or distortion either – it’s both, with each having its own separate “engine”, so both can be used together. What’s more, you can rout the two in series or parallel and in any order and then save all the settings to any of 18 patches. First Impressions Of The Nova Drive
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Using The TC Electronics Nova Drive
How Does The Nova Drive Sound?OverdriveThe overdrive is a smooth, natural overdrive with a very usable but simple tone control, good dynamics, and a good range of drive on tap. The drive range goes from clean boost to heavy overdrive, but doesn’t quite make it into modern metal territory, even with humbuckers. It is very responsive to playing dynamics and volume changes so you can leave it cranked and use the guitar’s volume control to set drive. There is a slight upper midrange emphasis which stops it from being a perfectly transparent clean boost, but not too excessive, just a subtle and usable ‘push’ to the sound. A final and unique feature is the ability to mix in the bypassed sound with the overdriven to add more clarity to the tone. Distortion
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Concluding The TC Electronic Nova Drive Review
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