The Fortin HexDrive brings new tone shaping possibilities for today’s heavy musician.
The HexDrive feature set will appeal to every tonal connoisseur with a familiar, yet unique, combination of everything needed. The HexDrive transitions from clean boost into overdrive delivering the best of both worlds.
The gain sweep is where it is at.... it's not just a gain control, the gain doesn't add dirt until about 10-11 o clock. With this, you can drive the front end of your amp - cleaner to at first - allowing you to enjoy your amps natural character, and then at higher gain settings on the pedal, you get a sweet midrange push that takes your tone to a whole new level.
With a higher output than a typical OD pedal, with additional headroom and an irregular style of clipping, this pedal gives an outstanding blend of both boost and overdrive - all wrapped up in one easy to use pedal.
Level: Adjusts the output of the pedal. The higheryou have this, the louder your signal will be and push the input of your amp harder.
Gain: The amount of gain, or overdrive, is applied to your signal. The first part of the sweep is pretty clean, you really notice the gain coming in past about 11 o’clock. You should spend some time with this, trying it lower and then higher, as more gain is not always what is needed!
Tone: Not a regular tone control! Feeling more like a mid range punch control, at all the way off, it’s flatter, more natural - at half way you are in the realms of a
regular mid boosted OD, and at higher levels, that mid is pushed right forward while taking some of the low, flabby bass out making the Hexdrive the tightest OD pedal available today.
Built in U.S.A.;
9vDC center pin negative (fully regulated) external adapter/power supply or battery (not included);
Power draw: 25mA (9v)
Highest grade materials selected for superior sound, response and reliability;
Industry Standard 3DPT true bypass mechanical stomp;
Pedal Dimensions (W/D/H): 4.4” x 2.38” x 1.06” (112mm x 60mm x27 mm) excluding knobs and switches;
Recently I've been bought the HEXDRIVE®, so my primary thoughts about this great pedal is:
1. Idea to combine clean boost and overdrive into single pedal, without needing to push a buttons when need to add some dirt to sound, simple turn the drive knob and all that you want is done.
2. Tone control, that has a bit different meaning than in traditional TS9/OD808 based overdrive, that shifts a mid frequencies whey you turining it clockwise. In some cases I need to make mids scooped ( for example to make bright amps less bright), or push mids-mid highs to front when playing downtuned or with baritones.
Im using the HEXDRIVE with my Mesa DualRec and with Peavey 6505, so I think I've a lot of sound discoveries during combining it and my amps. Highly recommend to buy, if you want to obtain a pedal, which you might able to use as boost/overdrive with ability to sculpt your mids as you desire.
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JB
Beautifully Brutal
Paired with the Zuul+ finally found the sound I’ve been chasing for decades.
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Martin L.
I have achieve the sound i want :)
I love the overdrive... my amp sound better !
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Andrew T.
HEXDRIVE®
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Troy
Awesome OD pedal! I quit trying to use any FX pedals almost 25 years ago when pedal technology was not so great, and just never cared to try any of them again. They (all types of pedals) have come a long way since then. In general conversation, a buddy recently recommended I get a Fortin ZUUL, and the Hexdrive, for smoothing-out my Rectifiers’ tone, and taming the high gain hiss, since I run very heavy gain, and this combo did not disappoint. I got them both dialed in, which took less than 5 minutes to find the sweetspots for the settings to get the tone I wanted, and it sounds great. Highly recommend the Hexdrive (and the ZUUL) for smoothing out your high gain tone.
Although the Hex Drive shares similar heritage to the humble TS, it is far apart from the regular little green box.
Is the Hex Drive the same as the digital Neural DSP version?
When the first Fortin NeuralDSP product was released, Mike wanted to boost the signal going into it but he didn't want to put a regular TS in front. With this in mid he designed his variation of that circuit and the clever people at NeuralDSP made it digital... due to public demand we created a physical version from Mike's design!
Is the Hex Drive a clean or a dirty boost?
The gain sweep starts clean, but about 10-11 o'clock it starts to apply dirt to the signal.
