The Internet Has Thoughts About Premier Guitar's Revv Amps Dirtdog Review.
Premier Guitar called it a Princeton in a box. Buyers called it something woolier.
Source
“There is none of the cabinet rattle, blown speaker noise, or occasional smoking transformers that often also come with the real thing.”
What the internet actually said
“Very nice pedal, very wooly and definitely reminds me of a cranked Princeton.”
Sweetwater · m.n.
“I really enjoy this easy to dial in pedal from edge-of-breakup to thick, almost fuzzy old-school distortion.”
The Suede Read
Premier Guitar reviewed the Revv Dirtdog and led with the best possible angle: Joey Landreth built a kit amp in his basement, recorded an album with it, and then asked Revv to put that amp in a box. That is not a made-up backstory. That is the whole product.
The review praised the pedal for delivering what the real amp could not: zero cabinet rattle, zero blown speakers, no smoking transformers. Those are not small things if you have ever tried to gig with a 10-watt tweed original. Premier Guitar was measuring the Dirtdog against the actual experience of owning a fragile amp, and the pedal passed.
We went looking for what buyers were saying. On Sweetwater, one review called it wooly and said it reminded them of a cranked Princeton. Fourteen words that confirm the review's central claim. On a Canadian gear retailer, a five-star review described it as easy to dial in, reaching from edge-of-breakup all the way to almost fuzzy. That range matters. A one-trick pedal at $199 is a conversation. A pedal that spans clean boost to old-school distortion is a justification.
The press rarely prints below a 6 out of 10. That is why we started this column. But sometimes the press is right, and the customers agree before the ink is dry. The Dirtdog is a pedal where the origin story and the sound review are pointing in the same direction.
That does not happen every week.
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