CalineDCP-11 Andes Boost Overdrive Effect Pedal Dual Guitar Pedal

I like this one, my first Caline pedal. The Voice switch changes the order of which side goes into the other. It does offer some versatility. The overdrive distortion added via the Gain knob is pleasant to my ears. More smooth than ragged. Has a decent range from fairly low gain up to medium+ levels. Put another way, it handles anything from Blues to Classic Rock. The Boost is just that. Leave the OD side off and get a clean boost. Three ways I discovered: 1) used as low gain Blues, with Gain at about 9 o'clock give or take a little. Set the Boost for a little higher than the OD alone, and kick it on for solos. 2) use the Voice switch to get a difference with EITHER Overdrive OR Boost by themselves 3) use the Voice to get a difference when BOTH sides are on. As to build quality, I always open a pedal to see if it has a battery plug-in, and electrical tape the contacts to keep them from contacting the case. There is no battery connection on this pedal. It does have a metal case. I can't see the component side of the circuit board, just the back side, but it looks like through-hole construction on the circuit board. The chrome nuts on the input and output jacks are metal, with the internal jack made of plastic with metal "fingers." The footswitches are also metal/plastic/circuit board construction. There are 3 multi wire push-on connectors connecting the circuit boards which would allow any one of them (including footswitches) to be replaced provided you could obtain the replacements. Overall, I'd say average but decent construction. I have, and have had, MANY dirt pedals. This one is definitely a keeper, especially at this price.

This is the best overdrive pedal I've used after trying about 5 different ones, some cheaper and some more expensive. What I like is that the green channel is not high gain or mid frequency sucking like tube screamer type pedals. It gives just a moderate crunch tone which sounds euphonic in itself and when used with boost it adds more body to the sound. Just for that channel itself it is worth the price.The Red channel is similar but higher in gain. This channel can get you to AC/DC territory. This too when used with boost sounds even bolder. Both the channels really stack nicely on top of the overdrive channel of the amp as well. I'm using it with Marshall DSL amp and all I can say is wow! And not just because of the price. I won't replace this pedal with a more expensive one either because of how good it sounds. I just recently tried the amplitube x-drive and it has nothing on this pedal. Sounds way to digital in comparison.

Husband replaced two pedals with this one. He loves the versatility.

Great pedal. Multiple mix and match voicing option. Clean boost is fantastic. Adding a Donner Blues Driver as an additional gain stage allows a huge variety of tones for less money than most single drive pedals. Looking forward to additional Caline pedals in the near future.

The media could not be loaded.  TL;DR — Huge range of tones; Low-to-mid-gain powerhouse; Responsive EQFirst off, I don’t really keep up on the “this is a clone of that, but that is a clone of that other thing” lines of forum chatter. I know that most mass-produced circuits aren’t going to be original, but that’s OK. I’ll just watch demos and trust my ears. And that approach led me to the Andes.At this point in the game, I’ve got a barrow full of fuzz boxes, but I realized I’m light on the low-to-mid dirt pedals, and the more I listen to my favorite shoegaze/post-rock bands, the more I realize there are loamy “layered-overdrives-colliding-with-reverb” veins I have yet to mine.And I couldn’t be happier with what the Andes offers: you get a super-musical overdrive and boost that react to each other very pleasingly. There’s plenty of gain on tap, and reversing the flow to slam to the drive into the boost gives you even more to play with. The boost on its own, by the way, is terrific, supplying great lift with no ill side effects.The signal flow switcher is a godsend, and I’ve long-marveled why all two-in-one pedals don’t have it. With the right set-up, you could easily get 3 very different tones to deploy in a single song, and there’s something to be said for that sort of utility and economy.Check out the video: loops fed through the Andes into a DAW (you will hear ample reverb courtesy of one of my favorite plugins; I usually would avoid using plug-ins in a demo, but it’s just that kind of Sunday morning, y’know?). By the way, I also used these same loops for my review of the Caline Brutus. Again, normally I wouldn’t do that, but in this case I think it’s helpful to hear the difference between these two boxes that both contain Caline overdrives.If you’re looking for something to give you more of your guitar’s existing sound, or something that will dirty things up in a most musical way, head for the Andes.[Extra bonus points to Caline for not making the condor’s(?) eye an LED.]