Fish Circuits Model One | Strat Tones!
The long-awaited Strat demo for the Fish Circuits Model One — and the goal is simple: slam the front end of the Benson Monarch on the edge and push it over completely. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
Watch the first Model One demo with the Frank Brothers Ultralight (El Rayo + Firebird): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAXliuvsavw
🎛️ Fish Circuits Model One: https://fishcircuits.com/products/model-one-overdrive
🎸 Giordano Guitars: https://www.instagram.com/_giordanoguitars_/
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
The Model One is a natural, amp-like overdrive with three controls and two switches. At lower gain settings it delivers dynamic, amp-like breakup that reacts to your playing. Cranked, it gets into saturated fuzzstortion territory reminiscent of orange amplifiers.
This demo covers the full sweep of the pedal's flexibility across two very different roles: clean amp enhancement and pushed-amp interaction.
N mode is the story when the amp is clean. More volume output, less gain, high headroom — the closest thing to a pure amp-front-end slam the Model One offers. With Level pushed past unity and Drive pulled back, it hits the Monarch's input stage hard with level, EQ, and topology rather than with clipping. The Monarch responds by contributing all the saturation. The Body switch's low-frequency control becomes the key variable — backing off the lows gives the Monarch's preamp room to bloom; pushing them adds mass and sustain.
B mode takes over when the amp is already breaking up. More gain, more compression, clipping diodes engaged — the Model One becomes part of the dirt rather than a pure amp driver. The interaction between B mode and a pushed Benson is where the "fuzzstortion" character lives.
The Giordano Guitars '60s S-Model's single coils reveal a different side of the Model One than the El Rayo humbuckers in the first demo — more immediate transient response, more Top End knob range in play, and the neck/middle pickup position quack behaving particularly well with medium Body settings.
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🎸 Giordano Guitars '60s S-Model | Giordano Pickups
🎛️ Fish Circuits Model One | Natural Overdrive | N/B Mode | Body Switch
🔊 Benson Amps Monarch
