Product: Creation Audio Labs Redeemer
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
02/02/2008
at
02:13am
by
vincewow
Features
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First I'd like to make clear that this is NOT a pickup but a circuit installed between your instruments pickups and replaces the existing input jack. Since its designed to work with any instrument that has a pickup, not a pedal etc... I chose to place it with "pickups" make sense?
Here are the specs and it's a piece of cake to install! Check out their site for details.
Flat frequency response: 10 hz-50 khz!???Noise floor: -118 db!???Distortion: 0.0009%
Input Impedance: > 2M ohms???Output Impedance: < 300 ohms???Current Draw: < 2.5mA
Power: operates from 9v to 18v
Phase response: between +/- 0.1 degree from 20Hz to 20kHz
Dimensions: 0.4" x 0.8" x 1.6" (metric = 1.0 cm x 2.0 cm x 4.0 cm) and a 9 volt battery
Instrument
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After hearing it at the Creation Audio Labs Booth in 2006 at the Dallas Guitar Show I decided to install it in my main guitar 1st. Its a 2004 Parker Fly Mojo with a Seymour Duncan Jazz in the neck and JB in the bridge. Other artists using it... Ty Tabor of King's X, Brad Whitford of Aerosmith and Producer Michael Wagener.
Sound
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10
It was designed to eliminate tone loss caused by your instrument???s electronics and your cable and FX pedals etc... The output is consistent and adds clarity, punch and sustain. As for tone, it gives a tighter low end, cleans up your mids and treble, resulting in better harmonics making the guitar much more responsive. You can feel it... and no noise is added. The amps and pedals I use it with are Randall MTS Series Amps (all tube), Xotic Pedals, Creation Audio Labs MK4.23 Boost Pedal, and a TC Electronic G-System. I can go direct into the amp without any of that. Whatever I plug into the Redeemer just makes the guitar tone jump out. I've now installed the Redeemer in a Les Paul Custom, and a Washburn USA N4.
Overall Rating
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10
If it was destroyed or stolen I'd get another one. I've been playing for 32 years and a full time musician. I have a ton of gear, it's in my main guitar an I really like its responsiveness. I know that my tone will be consistent and I can get a great smooth tone while backing down the volume knob without the treble and things don't muddy up. This is something you really need to experience in order to appreciate what it does. Once it's on and you play for a few minutes you get use to not just the tone but the "feel" it creates... if you shut it off, then you notice it's not there.
