Whether your cup of tea is blues, rock, indie or you're a master of genres the Mint Drive should be your go to pedal. The Mint Drive offers a wide range of gain selection from a clean boost to medium drive. Use the Mint Drive as a pedal to help drive other pedals or by itself to run the show. The Mint Drive works great with rhythm by adding enough crunch and bass to your chords while emphasizing on the individual harmonics of each note in the chord. In lead the pedal offers a warm sustain to help support signal note melodies and leads. For both operations of the Mint Drive (rhythm or lead) the pedal delivers a full response to the dynamics of your playing: dig into the guitar and hear a full driven sound but then lightly pick and hear a different drive just by changing the style of your picking.
The first goal of the Mint Drive was to deliver a slightly compressed drive that had a backed mid-range and emphasized lower frequencies. The second goal was to offer a wide range of gain so that the drive could cover many areas of music. Finally the main goal of the Mint Drive was to spend less time "tweaking" and more time playing. Sometimes less is more and the Mint Drive delivers that with only three knobs: volume, gain and shape. Volume is your master in control and when needed use to cut or boost the signal. Gain increases the drive of the pedal and includes an active filter, which is used in sync with the gain so tonal options are endless. Finally comes shape, that's the best word to describe this knob. This knob is not your normal bass or treble cut "tone" option but it changes the overall characteristics of the pedal and offers a change in the harmonics of the gain.