NUXPLEXI CRUNCH - Distortion Gain Plexi-type distortion Pedal

I'm mainly a Fender guy. I run Teles and Strats into pedals into a clean Hotrod Deluxe but also use a a clean Monoprice 15 watt tube amp at home, I've only tried this pedal out on the smaller amp but as I run the amps as a clean pedal platforms, I imagine that the performance will be equal if not better with the deluxe.I like good emulated Marshall distorted circuits and my main overdrive is a clone of a ZVEX distortron that I made that I use for light overdrive up to punk distortion but not really for metal crunch or high gain sounds (The distortron emulates smaller Marshall amps).I bought the Plexi Crunch to play a Therapy? cover and to see what it had to offer. It's a totally different beast, behaves differently to any other pedal that I have and offers a load of high gain options that sound amazing.I'll start with the clean sound. It hasn't got one! With the preamp (drive) fully down it still has distortion which might sound counterintuitive but they know what you want this for and have given you a sensible musical range rather than a cleaner sound that you can find elsewhere. Secondly the Tone is not a traditional Bass-Treble tone, it's a mids control which with high gain sounds getting that crunch while not scooping your way out of a mix is a more useful than tinkering with the highs. The presence knob does let you tinker with the highs until you find the bite that you want.In some ways the pedal takes you out of the traditional pedal comfort zone but it's endless fun adjusting the controls that are highly interactive; more preamp will have you thinking about different tone and presence as well as needing to adjust the master and as with the preamp all ofthe parameters of each control are tuned so that you never have a bad sound, just a range of great ones to pick so you're in a high gain ball park all of the time with an apropriate tonestack to tune your sound (s). I think if the ranges were wider you might find weird sounds but wouldn't stay in such a useful range, I love the thought that's gone into it.The price speaks for itself. We live in a golden age of inexpensive guitar pedals.

I have a few guitar effects pedals from the NU-X brand, and have been impressed by their build standards, simpilcity of use, overall quality and value for money. This model - The NU-X Plexi Crunch (Distortion Gain Plexi-type distortion pedal) is, quite frankly, a bit of a beast, sonically. Fetchingly designed to replicate the look of a classic Marshall amplifier, the similarity doesn't end there. Firstly - a few basics - it runs on either a single 9-Volt battery (supplied with the unit), or from a 9V mains power adapter (not supplied), and has the usual in / out standard jack plug sockets, the unit has four solid contol knobs (again in a Marshall Amplifier style), which are designated 'MASTER', 'PRE-AMP', 'TONE' and 'PRESENCE'. From the get-go, with all the knobs at 'midday', it is clear that this is an effects pedal that does not dither wasting time with any 'clean' sounding options. It delivers fercious crunch and distortion. Marshall Amps were always about, to me, deliver sizzling, razor edged distorted sounds, but with a fullness and flexibility within the 'distortion' spectrum that made them THE go-to amplifier of the Rock Era through to the present day. This NU-X Plexi Crunch unit requires (like any effects pedal) a modicum of adjustment and fine tuning to find the requisite tone, but the four controls can get you there with a bit of application. I've found that I can get a reasonable approximation of, say, a Gary Moore Bluesy tang, through to a Rick Neilsen / Cheap Trick power chord blast. With subtle adjustments, you can get the distortion from a kind of fine emery board abrasiveness, through to a full-on Punk / Hard Rock crunch like the Cockney Rejects. Personally, I prefer a cleaner sound, but there are definitely moments where only that inimitable Marshall sound will suffice.In summation, it's a whole lot of fun, and coming in under £35, is simply too good to pass up. My only slight demurral is that it can be a little too much - but there again, anything worth doing is worth over-doing!

This is 100% a Clone of the Friedman BE-OD pedal. Having tired both, the NUX is a really good effort! Past 12 it's almost to much going but before 12 it's the classic high gain Marshall. Personally I think it's more JCM900 territory rather than plexi.. amazing value for money and sounds absolutely killer!

Very good distortion pedal good value for money. Arrived on time.

This is an awesome pedal but personally not what I would go for in a Marshall tone. It really does those hot rodded more compressed Marshall sounds extremely well and feels satisfying to play. It's still a keeper due to the low price and for the odd times I want that sound. Based on their Vox pedal, which they have nailed, if NuX made a proper 60's Superlead, JTM or 70s JMP pedal I would be all over them, they would nail them too!