Doc Music Station Blackie Distortion

The Doc Music Station Blackie Distortion is a distortion pedal from Doc Music Station, a builder of compact drive pedals. Pedal of the Day featured it in a video review on October 10, 2014, submitted by reviewer Kyle, who summed up its character as "ProCo mojo with a twist!"¹

That description points to the pedal's lineage: it draws on the kind of circuit associated with ProCo, the maker behind the RAT family of distortions, while adding its own take on the design. The twist Kyle highlighted is the pedal's clipping choice, which lets the player pick between silicon and germanium diodes rather than being locked into one sound. As he put it, "Si or Ge, either way you want it!"¹

For a player, that means one pedal covering two flavors of clipping: silicon clipping is typically the tighter, more aggressive option, while germanium tends toward a softer, spongier edge. The Blackie lets you set that character at the pedal rather than committing to it at purchase.

What it does

The Blackie Distortion takes a guitar signal and clips it in the ProCo tradition, giving the saturated, sustaining character players expect from a distortion pedal. The distinguishing feature is the selectable clipping: the player can choose Si or Ge diodes, and the review framed the pedal as delivering that familiar ProCo-style drive with the added flexibility of both clipping types on tap¹.

Doc Music Station builds several other drive pedals in the same family, including the Doc'stortion, the Dark Blue Distortion, the Vintage Drive and the Lucy's Drive 2, with the Blackie sitting among them as the ProCo-flavored option with switchable clipping¹.

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