Flatley The Ace review

When it comes to dealing out boost and EQ, the only card you might need is Flattley’s The Ace

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Flatley The Ace
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Guitar World Verdict

Flattley’s The Ace is good-sounding boost pedal with plenty of whomp delivered with sensible tonal options. It’s ideal for giving you that extra push and emphasis for solos but is equally adept as an always-on component, adding a buffer and boosting signal strength with enhancement for your core tone.

Pros

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    Good level of boost available.

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    Sensible tonal options.

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    Buffer.

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    Halo light ring.

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    Footswitch topper.

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    Can be used as a kill switch.

Cons

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    We’d have preferred a more compact version.

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The latest from Flattley Guitar Pedals, the Gloucestershire, UK-based effects company, is The Ace, a clean boost/buffer with the advantage of having a Tone knob to target the boost. It features a blue halo light ring showing its engaged status and a topper on the footswitch, giving you a bit more to aim for when switching.

The Ace’s tone stack is the same as that in Flattley’s Solaris Pro fuzz and boost pedal and is designed to deliver an effectively flat sound when the knob is central, with a bass boost to the left and a treble boost to the right. The most neutral position of the Tone knob isn’t totally flat, but kicking in the pedal yields a subtle change in the midrange that seems to thicken your basic sound.

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Trevor Curwen
Trevor Curwen

Trevor Curwen has played guitar for several decades – he's also mimed it on the UK's Top of the Pops. Much of his working life, though, has been spent behind the mixing desk, during which time he has built up a solid collection of the guitars, amps and pedals needed to cover just about any studio session. He writes pedal reviews for Guitarist and has contributed to Total Guitar, MusicRadar and Future Music among others.