00:00What's up? Paul here from Guitar World and today we're going to be checking out a novel
00:23booster pedal made in partnership with the MXR Custom Shop and Jack White's Third Man
00:29hardware company, the Double Down. Let's check it out. What is the Double Down you ask? Well quite simply
00:39it's an inspired take on the original MXR microamp pedal which incidentally is an absolute favorite
00:45of White's and was also an essential part of his guitar rig. But now the Double Down has replaced
00:51that and it is the mainstay of his sound. But let's get to the point. The Double Down is effectively
00:56two microamp pedals in an eye-catching stomp box with two outputs allowing you to use it as a one
01:03into two signal splitter. And since the Double Down is loaded with a pair of microamp circuits
01:08you get two independent channels of classic MXR preamp gain boost. This was sort of our first step
01:15of wanting to split between two amplifiers. I've always been using you know two amps and usually
01:21now and for less like decade or more it was like the VibroVerb, the 64 VibroVerb and a hundred watt
01:28Silvertone. And the ability to in the studio or live to go to two different places with it. A true stereo output.
01:36And so this was the collaboration, the Double Down, the ability to send that signal to two different
01:43places and control the volume for each one. Very simple. But coming in very useful in the studio and
01:49on stage. I love it because it's sort of very clean for a while then you get up here it gets dirty and
01:54overcharged and it's kind of great. You could almost just only, I could imagine just doing gigs with only that.
02:01The Double Down pedal's single input jack splits your signal into two separate outputs,
02:06each with its own gain control, where you can balance the volumes of two amps or where you can
02:11push up to 26 dB of signal boosting power. You'll notice on the left side of the pedal is a phase
02:18switch that adds a pronounced stereophonic effect by inverting the phase of the second output signal.
02:24And on the right side is a buffer switch so that you can choose between true bypass and buffered bypass
02:29switching. So for my setup I have two super amps. One which is a 1x15 speaker and the other combo
02:36over here which is a 1x12. So let's hear both of these dual amps right now without engaging the Double Down.
02:44Here's what it sounds like.
03:01So let's have some fun with the Double Down. In one amp going through the Double Down I have a fuzz and a chorus and in the other amp I have a reverb.
03:08So when I engage both you get to hear like this myriad of great tone.
03:16Thank you
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