Caline CP-12 Pure Sky Guitar Pedal Effect Highly Pure and Clean Overdrive Guuitar Fx

This is my first real pedal, I just got this today. I play an ESP LTD M-10 guitar, through both an Acoustic G20 amp and an iPad with JamUp Pro using a Griffin Guitar Connect Pro. This setup sounds good to me, except that I can't easily switch to overdriven sounds in the middle of a song. I needed a pedal to get me there.I didn't want a Tube Screamer clone, because I didn't want to always cut bass and treble. I wanted something transparent (no changes in bass, mid or treble). This pedal is supposedly similar to a Timmy (a very highly rated OD). The big differences are that on a real Timmy, you get some extra setting switches that change the symmetry of the diode clipping, and the amount of compression. Also, the treble and bass controls on the Timmy will only cut frequencies. On the Pure Sky you can either boost or cut both treble and bass by either going clockwise or counterclockwise on the knobs. The real Timmy is probably much more precise. For a guitarist like me, who doesn't record or play in a band, and needed an inexpensive option—I opted for the Pure Sky.It took less than two weeks to arrive from China (from seller Mohan Xu) to my place in the U.S. It came packaged inside a plastic bag, within foam, within a small cardboard box, within a bubble mailer envelope. This doesn't come with a battery or power adapter. The only included extras were little round sticker "feet" for the pedal, which I haven't needed yet. The pedal appears and feels adequately durable on the jacks, knobs, switch and casing. The pedal is 8.5 ounces on my kitchen scale without a battery inside. I've not tested with a 9V battery. I'm using an Electro-Harmonix 9v 200mA power adapter with a Boss-type 2.1mm center negative jack. I've read on a forum that this pedal only consumes about 5mA. I did try to test the true bypass: If I don't plug in the power, it will still bypass my guitar's sound to the amp without changing the tone. If I turn the pedal on without power, it will mute the guitar.With the gain all the way down, level set to unity, bass at noon, and treble at noon—I can't hear it switch on (not even through headphones), and I can't hear any difference at all in my tone (this is very good). It's as if it's not even there. Turning up the gain, and backing off the volume to stay at unity, I can kind of mimic the lower gain settings of the lead channel on my amp.With the gain dimed, I can clean up the sound completely just by turning down the volume on my guitar, and then switch to a lead tone by rolling it back up to full again.With the gain all the way down, and volume all the way up, I can use this pedal as a clean volume boost.With the gain down, and the volume at unity, I can use this as a basic EQ pedal by changing the bass and treble knobs.With the gain dimed on the pedal, and on my solid state practice amp, I can get some extra compression/sustain that sounds good to me.I haven't tested truly overdriving my amp by turning up the volume on the amp, and then engaging the pedal. I live in an apartment, so I can't try this. With an SS amp like mine, I've read elsewhere that this usually ends up in harsh clipping that's not very musical. So, it's a mystery how my amp and this pedal would respond.At the most extreme gain settings, it seems to compress slightly. I don't really care for the gain to be past 2 o'clock, as the character of the clipping doesn't sound good to me (harsh/raspy). I think this excels at either giving a slight to moderate level of grit by itself. If you're looking for more of a modern rock heavy overdriven sound, this pedal isn't really for that. If you're looking for a clean boost, basic EQ, and/or light transparent OD, then get this. I recommend searching for the video reviews of this pedal so that you can listen to it and decide if it sounds like it will work for you first though.

Great pedal. Natural sounding grit with plenty of gain. Very fair price🤘

I bought this pedal out of pure curiosity and was very pleased. To preface this review, I've been playing since age 8 and am now 44. I've had a slew of gear over the years, most of it very high quality or vintage...not out of snobbery, but because it's what I liked to hear. Recently I've been on the hunt for a great overdrive to push the front end of my dual amp setup (1961 and 1962 Fender Bassman heads and cabs.) In the capacity that I'm using the pedal I've found it to be quite good, particularly for the cost of a mediocre meal that leaves me with nothing more than a burning sphincter and questionable leftovers (just found the name of my next band and first album title.) I found the pedal to really "zero" out or become transparent in tone with the drive off, treble and bass at roughly 2 and 3 o'clock respectively and the level knob adjusted to match my amp. From there simply increasing the gain gives me a nice overdrive on top of my clean tone. The other way I like the pedal is to slam the front of the amp with the pedal's level at 10, drive at little to no gain, treble and bass at the same positions as before. This sounds really nice with a strat and the neck/middle position. The pedal seems to have an unusual amount of headroom in terms of the level knob. Much more than my other overdrive pedals (JHS, Maxon, Nobels etc.) This is a cool feature for really driving a tube amp at lower volumes without using an attenuator or a power soak. The build quality of the pedal seems fine. Upon opening I noticed the weight is maybe slightly less than others, but nothing drastic. The pots all turn consistently and are smooth to operate - they do not feel cheap. The switch also seems fine - it feels sturdy under your foot. The one thing that I do not like about the pedal is the location of the power jack. For whatever reason, the power supply jack is located on the left side of the pedal right next to the output jack. To me this is a really weird spot and frankly not something I care for as it forces you to have a minimum amount of space between your pedals. On a pedalboard where space is valuable - that could be troublesome. One might think "run it off of battery power then". Here's the quirky part of that - you receive a very short cable that has a female 9 volt battery plug on one end and the male power supply end on the other....so if you're powering the pedal via battery, the battery has to live outside of the pedal. For something you're stepping on with your feet, I feel like the power source should be out of the way (north of the knobs) or protected (inside the pedal). Those couple of things aside, I've been very pleased with the pedal. It easily holds it's own against pedals three times it's cost.