Andertons' blindfold gear shootouts are fascinating exercises because they remove preconceptions and focus purely on what matters; how something sounds. So when Rabea Massaad's discerning ears moved on to pick his favourite overdrive pedals after his last test with reverbs, we were interested to see what would happen.
And it's a true classic that won out; the Boss Blues Driver in its expanded Waza Craft edition remained in a winner-stays-on shootout involving the great and the very good. But surprisingly for a player who doesn't usually seem to gravitate to klones, he placed the Wampler Tumnus was second – following on from it from winning an Andertons klone-focussed shootout judged by 'Danish Pete' Honoré two years ago, and scoring highly again compared to a real Klon Centaur earlier this year.
