Neo Low Gain

GI Low Gain

Fuzz - 15%

Everything else Flat

Notice how 'clean'  the Neo is. You start to get grit as you go down. It's a great blues sound! The GI on the other hand, is already starting to sound mean.

Neo Medium Gain

GI Medium Gain

Fuzz - 50%

Everything else Flat

The Neo sounds SOOO fat, almost like a gorgeous overdrive. The GI is pretty mean!

Neo High Gain

GI High Gain

Fuzz - 100%

Everything else Flat

The Neo starts to get serious here. But notice still how smooth it sounds. I'm playing as aggressively as I can, but notice how even on the power chord, you get this smoothing compression, the kind that only a germanium will do. The G.I.,... well what can I say. Very focused. You can hear harmonics fighting for dominance on that last note.

Neo Tone Sweep

GI Tone Sweep

Tone goes from 0% to 100% and back to 0%. Everything else is flat

Notice the HUGE tone control range. There's so much that you can do with just that one knob

Neo Body Sweep

GI Body Sweep

Body goes from 0% to 100% and back to 0%. Everything else is flat

You can hear clearly the difference in the 'girth' of these 2 pedals. The Neo sounds fat, not honky or mid-rangy. The GI, on the other hand can do a serious scoop, but at the top of the range of the body control, it sounds very full.

Neo Bias Sweep

GI Bias Sweep

Bias goes from 0% to 100% and back to 0%. Everything else is flat

Mucking around with the bias control has a HUGE effect on the tone. You can hear what happens to both pedals when you sweep the bias. You go from nothing, to gated, to fat and symmetrical, to squishy and back again.

Neo Bias Demo

GI Bias Demo

Sample 1 - bias at 50%

Sample 2 - bias at 20%

Sample 3 - bias at 100%

I thought that the bias demo above didn't give you enough of an idea about what the guitar sounds like. So I recorder the same phrase 3 times. The first is with the bias set flat, which is the symmetrical setting. Notice how stable the sound is. The second sample is with the bias tuned down to 25%. This creates that really cool gated sound. The 3rd sample is with the bias turned all the way up. This creates a completely different sound. It's a very compressed sound. The notes take some time to settle.

Neo Load Demo

GI Load Demo

Sample 1 - Load at 0%

Sample 2 - Load at 25%

Sample 3 - Load at 50%

Sample 4 - Load at 100%

Once again, one phrase played 4 times, each time with increasing load. Hear how at the load all the way down, the pickups sound very weak. What you're literally doing is trying to suck too much current out the pickups, and they just can't deliver. As you turn the load up, the pickups can relax a bit more, and you start to get top end detail back in. By the time you get to 100% load, the pickups sound very bold and articulate.

Neo Clean-up

GI Clean-up

Everything flat

I'm not turning down the guitar volume too much. It's just on 50% for the first section, and then at the end, I turn it up for the last few notes. Notice how sensitive both pedals are to volume position? Also note the difference between the GI an the Neo. The GI is a lot meaner...

Neo Different Pickups

GI Different Pickups

Everything flat

Same phrase, starting with the neck pickup, and working my way down to the bridge to demonstrate how each pedal handles the unique tones of each pickups. These are fuzz pedal, so you can't expect super clarity, but notice none the less, how each pickup can still be distinguished. This clarity can be increased even further by turning up the load control.