MusicRadar Verdict

Three levels of dirt in a single pedal with excellent onstage switching options.

Pros

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Versatile switching. Two overdrives in one housing. Wide range of tones.

Cons

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The cut knob is a bit fiddly.

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Like its sister pedal, the Jetdrive, the GS3 has two channels that can be used independently or cascaded, with each one having a unique voice and gain structure.

More flexibility is provided by a third footswitch that operates an overall bypass regardless of the on/off status of the channels. Each channel is capable of producing usefully different sounds.

"With two channels cascaded there's a huge palette of full-bodied overdrive available."

Both function nicely as clean boosts and, while channel one features the milder overdrive and a rear-panel 'cut' knob that controls presence, channel two is higher gain and is voiced not unlike a Marshall 'Plexi'.

With two channels cascaded there's a huge palette of full-bodied overdrive available.

Trevor Curwen has played guitar for several decades – he's also mimed it on the UK's Top of the Pops. Much of his working life, though, has been spent behind the mixing desk, during which time he has built up a solid collection of the guitars, amps and pedals needed to cover just about any studio session. He writes pedal reviews for Guitarist and has contributed to Total Guitar, MusicRadar and Future Music among others.

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