NAMM 2018: Mad Professor Kosmos Ambient Reverb Pedal

Mad Professor is a steller making of guitar effects. They have made some of the most acclaimed overdrives and delays. Just before NAMM, they've announced that they are issuing the Kosmos Ambient Reverb. All demos make this pedal seem like a powerful reverb capable of huge, ambient, shimmering reverb sounds. 11 modes (including 3 different shimmers) and a freeze function make the Kosmos a versatile tone-tool. I'm looking forward to NAMM and giving the Kosmos a closer look.

Here are some details:

The Mad Professor Kosmos is a small, easy to use but super versatile pedal for a wide variety of ambient reverbs and delays.

With just one footswitch you can, of course, turn the pedal on and off, but also hold the reverb for eternal ambiance or make beautiful sweet effects without the need for a volume pedal.

All the 11 ambient tones are carefully designed, and you can further adjust the tones with four knobs. The special Control knob has a different function on different presets, so please take time to explore all the possibilities.

The Kosmos pedal will open a universe of ambient tones.

From Plate and Room delays to Spring and Hall delay, different shimmer tones, Swells and reverb with delay.

The tone simply got even more organic!

source: effects database

Ugly Guitar Truth: Mad Professor Little Tweedy

Mad Professor is known for putting out great products. This pedal is no different. It is closely related to the Bid Tweedy, but it goes more the sound and feel of a smaller tweed combo like the Tweed Deluxe. From the demo up on the Mad Professor YouTube page, it nails it pretty well.

From Mad Professor:

The Little Tweedy Drive is voiced after the famous small Tweed amp tone, like the tone on Tweed Deluxe. The Little Tweedy Drive provides a vintage tone that is used on many recordings: big, fat & punchy midrange with a sweet growl reminiscent of the late 50´s amplifiers. The Little Tweedy Drive has a tone that almost purrs!

With the Little Tweedy Drive, you don´t just have the Tweed tone, but also the hard to get dynamics and touch sensitivity that are the qualities that have made the Tweed amps classic and raved about among the players.

This unique pedal it is the most amp-like feeling pedal you have ever experienced.

Adjusting the amount of gain by picking attack or guitar volume and using the tone controls on your instrument, makes the Little Tweedy Drive pedal fit into a surprisingly broad range of genres: from jazz & blues to country and rock´n´roll!

Another great feature is that its gain stacks very well too. You can get more saturated and higher gain tones by placing a booster or another overdrive pedal in front of the Little Tweedy Drive.

The Little Tweedy Drive works equally well in front of a clean amp or an already distorted amp.

Thanks to the nicely balanced internal compression, the Little Tweedy Drive cleans up very well from the guitar´s volume control. Also, just like on the vintage Tweed amp, the output volume will not drop too much.

Controls:

VOLUME: Sets the output level.
DRIVE: Adjusts the amount of distortion.
TREBLE: Adjusts the amount of high frequencies. The range is from a significant high-frequency cut to a slight high-frequency boost.
BASS: Adjusts the amount of low frequencies. The range is from a significant low-frequency cut to a slight low-frequency boost.
Specifications:

Current consumption 15mA at 9VDC
Supply voltage range 7.5V to 18V (9V recommended, the sound of the pedal depends on the supply voltage.
Input impedance 500 kOhm at 1 kHz
Output impedance 1 kOhm
Complete bypass (true bypass)
Power requirements: 6f22 9V battery or DC eliminator 2.1 mm plug, center negative and positive sleeve.

Conclusion:

I dig the pedal. However, I'm a bit of a tightwad. I usually try to pick up pricier pedals on the used market. But, if you are looking for that tweed sound, then you might want to consider picking one of these pedals up. I guess the ugliest truth about this pedal is that you have to wait until April to get your hands on one.