Fender Smolder Acoustic Overdrive Pedal

The clips you'll find on YouTube do not do this device justice.Typically you'll encounter at least two issues using drive on acoustic guitars. Lack of clean signal blend, and also lack of amp and cabinet emulation which is critical for electric drive effects to sound good through a PA or acoustic amp. Both issues are handled perfectly without any effort and the drive sound is pleasant.You can accomplish the same thing with a decent modeler and parallel processing by having one lane use some form of drive emulation followed by amp and cab simulation and then setting the blend appropriately where the lanes meet but this is so much simpler and easier to dial in.I'm sure you could also get there with a traditional pedal chain but it would require a lot of cables, at least one LS-2, an IR loader or Sansamp style thing and it really hurts my head even thinking about it.Long story short, if you have an acoustic pedal board the Smolder should be on it.

Holy cow, I started using this and immediately felt like a rockstar. The overdrive pedal not only looks clean, sounds so good. Puts out an incredible rock electric guitar sound, and you can tone it down based on what you want it to sound like. WELL DONE!

Very pleased with it. It gives my acoustic just that bit of edge I wanted. I have the drive set to about 3 o'clock so if I want more, it's there. I play a Martin D16 with a Fishman Rare Earth Blend pickup system.The one thing I do NOT like is the g** d*** button, which makes a loud "click". If not for that, I would have given it 5 stars. Everybody else in the world makes pedals with soft click buttons. You would think Fender would have the foresight to not put such a loud button on an acoustic guitar device. But I guess there's ways around that... you could use a loop switcher. I wonder how hard it would be to change out the button. Hmmm.

Awesome pedal..but I'm on my third pedal. The first one lasted a year but the over drive is burning out, bought another one right outta the box didn't work, replaced that, back to a great sounding pedal. Hope they keep making it or solved whatever killed my first one cause I love the sound it can give my acoustic .

I needed an pedal for overdriving a Martin acoustic for lead while looping chords.This did the trick, and some.First, the OD tone is great. Not metal-crunchy and not limp-wristed either. Proper bluesy grit.Second, the separate knob for feedback control is tremendous. My Martin is dual pickups - piezo and open mic. Feedback is easy with that guitar, but this pedal squashed that without squashing the tone.Lastly, the blend knob is a blessing. I can get interesting raw acoustic baseline sound with a crunch on top. Gets me the sound I want.

It sounded pretty good. It sounded better with a Tube Screamer driving it. The on/off switch failed during sound check. Once I got it to come on, I had to unplug it to turn it off. Bummer.

Does what it's supposed to do. Would be better if I could play better... 😉

I play every week at my church and this pedal is fantastic. Great build quality, and the tone and overdrive options work excellently. I highly recommend this for those that may like an overdrive sound while not losing acoustic tone quality.

the look the sound wow nice thank you fender one of your best

The EQ is too limited and it seems to be a good pedal if you want to have a blend distortion and clear signal at once. Not for me

But a bit too pricey with limited use. I returned it.