RJM Music releases Full English six-mode Marshall-style overdrive pedal

December 19, 2023 · 2 sources

RJM Music released the Full English, a programmable analog overdrive pedal, on December 19, 2023. The pedal is the company's follow-up to the Overture, which combined classic overdrive types with original RJM circuits¹.

The Full English packs six overdrive modes into one pedal, each an analog circuit built around a Marshall-style drive tone². From lightest to heaviest, the modes are push, blues, royal, imperial, shred and stack¹. Push is a clean boost intended to drive the front end of an amp; blues is inspired by a British low-to-medium-gain 1990s pedal; royal is based on a boutique modification of that circuit; imperial is a higher-gain version of royal using hard clipping; shred is a compressed high-gain distortion for soloing; and stack is a more open high-gain distortion voiced like an amp². Gain, tone, volume, bass, mid and treble knobs shape each mode, with the last three acting as post-gain EQ¹.

Settings can be saved, including the mode and knob positions, to one of eight preset slots by long-pressing the button that cycles the six voices¹. The right footswitch handles on/off and the left selects among four active presets; pressing both together switches between two preset banks for all eight¹. A further 100 presets are accessible via MIDI, and the pedal has full-size MIDI in and out ports plus USB-C². RJM offers Mac, Windows and iPad software for controlling and editing the pedal². It comes in blue or black².

The MSRP is USD 349². Gearnews reported an introductory price of USD 299 for the first 50 units, rising to USD 349 after that batch². Premier Guitar's review described the overdrives and signal chain as fully analog and called the preset options and MIDI control the features that set the pedal apart¹.