The ‘Galea’ is a medium gain overdrive pedal.
It resembles a full-blown vintage tube amp which has a bold rich and pure driven tone. The drive tone was influenced by the legendary late 50s Fender Tweed Deluxe (5E3 Circuit) and the Tone-Master from the 90s build by Fender CUstom Shop and more… Much more than a mere vintage tube amp.
The Galea is equipped with 2 trimmers which is incredible, one of a kind feature to this pedal. The first and foremost is the saturation (SAT) trimmer. Allows you to achieve the smooth tube like tone and also being able to adjust the characteristics of the tone. The SAT trimmer is also equipped on the Jan Ray. If you put it in words the pedal is ‘SCREAMIN’!
The second trimmer is the drive (DRV) trimmer. The Drive timmer lets you control the gain/drive of your tone. Depending on the driven setting on your amp, it allows you to set and change the tone even more, leading you to have further variation to your sound for your specific needs.
The following settings are examples that might be helpful to use in your style of playing.
When the amp setting is clean or in a light crunch mode.
Set the DRV trimmer to 100% HOT mode.
When the amp setting is in crunch mode.
Gradually change the setting of the DRV trimmer from HOT to COOL while playing a lick and find your sweet spot. If the gain is still loud, gradually level Galeas gain knob down and increase the volume knob on the Galea.
When the amp setting is in drive mode.
Set the DRV trimmer to COOL at 50%-100%. If the gain is too loud, level Galeas gain knob all the way down and increase the volume knob on the Galea while keeping the DRV trimmer at 50%-100%. This will allow you to use it as a boost effect, avoiding the buzzing noises on the low strings.
