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The Blues Master, all handmade in Kansas City, Missouri, USA is based on the Marshall BluesBreaker guitar pedal circuit, with an exciting secret I will explain later. One of the most popular guitar pedals, it was one of three Marshall guitar pedals introduced in 1991. The purpose of the BluesBreaker guitar pedal was to simulate the vacuum tube sound of the vintage 2×12 Marshall combo amp used by Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers band. The BluesBreaker was intended to add a nice breakup and a touch sensitive overdrive to a clean amplifier at lower volumes giving an illusion of a Marshall amp at high output levels. Despite all the good things, some people feel the output on the original was a bit low (but read on for the secret). Another big downside is that to buy a used original pedal now, on the market will cost you about $350-$500 dollars.
Frog’s BluesMaster uses the same circuit as the BluesBreaker (but with a special twist suggested to me by a certain Kansas City guitar pedal Guru. Update: (Josh Scott acknowledged on the 9/15/21 livestream he was involved with the evolution of this pedal!) The secret is, that the original Blues Breaker effect circuit is paired up with an Electro Harmonix (EHX) LPB-1 clean boost circuit from 1969 on the output side. It pairs up well with a single coil or humbucker. With the gain turned down, it makes a nice clean boost, but you can set it on the edge of breakup and when you dig into the strings, it starts into a nice creamy breakup. Turn the gain up further and it breaks up earlier and can begin to provide distortion sounds.
Yes, that is a Rat style slant enclosure made to my specifications by the same company that makes the enclosure for the manufacturer of the Rat. Made with 14 gauge steel and solid as a rock! Frogpedals.com is not associated with Proco in any way.
*Shipping notes: International customers will be charged (approx. 15-20 USD) additional for International shipping.
Jason McDaniel –
Awesome pedal! Excellent build, looks like a work of art! Incredible sounding pedal. Hit a home run with the Marshall BluesBreaker sound. Definitely will buy more pedals / products from Frog Pedals! 🐸
Mark Price –
Thank you Jason for the kind words. I appreciate you taking the time to make a comment! If you are an instagrammer or facebooker, I would appreciate it there as well. Thanks again! Mark