The Randall MOR is a boost pedal from Randall, sold as the Model MOR, a one knob discrete guitar booster foot pedal1. It was announced for premiere at NAMM 2014 alongside two other Randall pedals, the Facepunch and the RGOD2.
A boost pedal does one job: it raises the level of your guitar signal. Players use one to push an amp harder so it breaks up earlier, or to lift a solo above the band without changing the tone's character. The MOR is a boost pedal with one single control2.
What it does
The MOR is a boost pedal with one single control and a true bypass, and it runs on a 9V battery or an external supply2. That single control is the MOR knob, and its function is stated plainly: turn it to the right to make more level happen1. There is nothing else to adjust, which makes the pedal quick to set by ear: step on it, roll the knob up until the amp responds the way you want, and step off it to return to your clean signal path.
The true bypass switching means that when the pedal is off, the guitar signal passes through without going through the pedal's circuitry2. For a player who leaves the boost disengaged most of the time, that keeps the unboosted tone untouched by the pedal.
Because the MOR only adds level rather than clipping the signal itself, it sits alongside, rather than replaces, gain pedals such as overdrive, distortion and fuzz pedals on a board. A common use for a boost of this kind is in front of an already overdriven amp, where the extra level drives the amp's input harder and produces more saturation, or in an amp's clean channel, where it simply makes the guitar louder.
Videos
The Tone King
Sources (2)
- Randall Model MOR, Butler Music LLC
- NAMM Three new Randall pedals unveiled, Audiofanzine, 2014-01-21