The Rowin Amp Pusher is a Rowin pedal in the overdrive lane. As its name suggests, it is built around the idea of pushing an amplifier harder rather than coloring the signal on its own.
Rowin's range includes several closely related pedals:
- Rowin Tube Pusher, a similarly named pedal in the same range
- Rowin Blues
- Rowin Bluesy
- Rowin Gumble Overdrive
The Amp Pusher and the Tube Pusher are separate pedals with similar names. Players comparing the two should keep the naming difference in mind when reading listings or reviews.
What it does
Pedals built as "pushers" are designed to drive the rest of the signal chain harder rather than to add much character of their own. LunaStone, whose own pedal called the Pusher sits in the same category, describes it as a clean booster meant to "push your tube amp or other drive pedals into natural and mind-blowing saturation"1.
"push your tube amp or other drive pedals into natural and mind-blowing saturation"
Premier Guitar's coverage of the LunaStone pedal sums up the job a pusher does:
"guitars from soft to loud, or from loud to even louder, yet clean and with a natural and musical flavor"
That is the role a pusher pedal plays on a board: placed before an amp or another drive pedal, it raises the signal level so the amp or pedal breaks up earlier and harder. The approach is the same whether the pedal carrying the "Pusher" name comes from Rowin or from another maker in the category.
Videos
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Sources (2)
- NEW PRODUCT, LunaStone, 2016-10-11
- LunaStone Unveils the Pusher Boost Pedal, Premier Guitar, 2016-10-11
