KMA Machines Logan Transcend Drive review

Meet the drive pedal with ultra-adjustable midrange for ample sculpting power

KMA Machines Logan Transcend Drive review
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Guitar World Verdict

A nicely responsive drive that excels in the role of adding dirt to clean amp. The precise sculpting of dirt tone combined with practical performance features confers a flexibility that really does transcend the standard drive format.

Pros

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    Wide range of drive tones.

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    Attention to midrange detail.

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    Footswitchable mids.

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    Cool artwork.

Cons

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    Internal adjusters (although to be fair, these would clutter things up if they were on the outside).

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As midrange voicing greatly affects the character of distortion, it follows that a drive pedal with adjustable midrange would have increased flexibility over its peers, which appears to be the main thrust of the Logan Transcend Drive. 

Standard Level and Drive knobs accompany smaller knobs, which very effectively adjust Lows and Highs by up to 15dB, but the two-knob midrange adjustment offers more detailed shaping using semi-parametric EQ. There’s cut or boost of up to 12dB around a frequency in a range from the low-end thump of 100Hz through to the chimey ‘presence’ of 2.5kHz, with a choice of where the midrange sits in the pedal’s signal path. 

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