Recaptures sought-after vintage and modern sounds in a powerful, versatile, and extremely musical pedal design.

Drawing on Joe Satrianis knowledge accumulated from decades of groundbreaking performances, both live and in the studio, VOX unveils a breakthrough in guitar tone in The Satchurator distortion pedal. Designed to Satrianis exact specification, the Satchurator produces Satrianis signature tone and adds features and improvements never before combined in a distortion pedal. After almost a year of painstaking experimentation and road testing, Satriani and the VOX R&D team discovered the secrets to capturing the ultimate distortion tone in a modern-day effects pedal. The Vox Satchurator is capable of very high gain levels, but operates more quietly and musically than many other modern distortion pedals. It also preserves the tone and pick attack regardless of style, while providing distortions from subtly distorted blues tones through classic rock and shred. "The Satchurator is the most musical, most dynamic, multi-function distortion pedal I've ever played through" says Satriani. "This little red box is a monster tone generator. Following my specifications without compromise, and adding design innovations I never thought possible, the VOX team has delivered exactly what I need for the stage and studio a distortion pedal that responds to my touch, and produces a big, natural, harmonically rich tone compatible with any guitar/pedal/amp configuration."

Vox Joe Satriani Satchurator Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal Features:

• Analog distortion pedal designed under the complete supervision of Joe Satriani
• Controls for Gain, Tone and Volume
• More' gain boost switch enables two footswitchable distortion sounds in one pedal. This gain boost is dramatic when gain knob is set low, and is a subtle solo boost when gain knob is set to maximum.
• Pad' switch pads down input to allow for high gain pedals (such as modern wahs) placed before Satchurator. Up is pad ON'. Down is pad OFF' for full Satchurator effect.
• High gain, low noise design provides vintage to modern distortion sounds
• Dynamic circuit is highly responsive to rolling off the guitar's volume and preserves the guitar's high end when the volume is rolled off.
• Cream chicken-head knobs for precise positioning and high visibility on dark stages

The sound of Satch - it's a natch. Call or click today to order.

Vox Joe Satriani Satchurator Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal Specifications:

• Controls: Gain, Tone, Volume, On/Off Switch, More' Switch, Pad Switch
• In/Outputs: 1/4" Input, 1/4" Output
• Dimensions: 143(W) x 121(D) x 57.5(H)mm/5.63" (W) x 4.76"(D) x 14.61"(H)
• Weight: 600g (excluding batteries)/1.32 lbs.
• Power: One 9V Battery (included) or AC adapter (not included)

Vox Joe Satriani Satchurator Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal

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Unique tone.

Posted by therangersinger from Adairsville, Ga. on Nov 4, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: obsessive enthusiest

Reviewer's Play Style: rock, blues, and whatever comes to mind

Picks up where the Ds-1 falls short. For those who like the sytle of distorion that the Ds-1 provided but hate the thin and tinny tone it created at times, then as a replacement you will be very happy with the Satchurator. Maintains the response of the Ds-1 but definitely has a far superior tone. Spot on for Joe's tone. I prefer to run this before my wah as i did with my Ds-1 and then into a Way huge Porkloin overdrive to fatten it up. I think those two pedals together are a match made in heaven. And for those who are asking why in the heck are you running those effects in that order, because that is how i like it. Check on you tube "twin reverb clean and with effects" last third of video uses the effects chain i described. Listen to it and you will hear how the Satchurator really works well with a good overdrive.

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Maybe the best distortion you can buy

Posted by Stratlover from Mt Vernon on Nov 1, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Rock, Jazz

This is one of two "distortion" boxes I will use. Running this into a clean amp, as some have discovered, will sound buzzy, fizzy, and just terrible, much like the DS-1 this pedal is greatly based off of. HOWEVER, into a dirty amp or into an overdrive pedal, the way distortions are supposed to be used, this thing KILLS. Into an overdriven amp, it will take you from overdrive to classic '80's distortion (think Van Halen, or Randy Rhoads). Into a good overdrive, this thing resembles a fuzz. It is very thick and compressed, and just sounds flat out beautiful. This isn't a Slipknot uber distortion, but I would say a very tight, high gain treble booster. But I will say it does sound terrible into a clean amp, and for all you volume cravers, the output isn't anything too spectacular.

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Great Pedal

Posted by wbd_man from Dallas, TX on Oct 28, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Alternative / Classic Rock / Texas Country

People on this website need to understand that distortion pedals and overdrive pedals aren't the same thing. This isn't a tube screamer, and it's not suppose to be. This pedal is incredibly versatile. You can take a clean amp and produce soft creamy distortion, as well as saturated harmonic crunch. Do click this pedal on, to an amp that is already distorted, that would be the job of an overdrive pedal.

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Nice Tone

Posted by DragonFlySlayer from Centeral California on Oct 3, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Guitarist/Drummer 30 years

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock/Blues ..Hard Rock

There are many amps and boxes and gadgits in our lives to analize or grade. For me this Saturator is quite nice. I am running two 5150 III heads and I have three cabinets with some Eminence and Green back 30's. I am running a Deja Vibe2,a Clyde Delux Waw and then into this Saturator and into the Vox Time machine delay and from both outputs of the time machine into the front end of my Fender 5150 III's. What I like about this saturator is I can put my Fender heads on Channel 2 and back off on the gain and adjust this saturator to the gain level I like. Now this gives me a nice quiet with a great distorted signal. The feedback is beautiful and the "MORE" button is just a tad more for those hot spots or runs I like to do and lead or whatever. What is also cool is when I back down on my guitar's volume the sound is nice and clear but harmonic. Real clean and then I roll the volume back up and I am right back in the zone I like. I at first didn't really pay much attention to the Joe Satriani endorsed Vox units. I figured they were alright but I have some older vintage units running through my amp's loops and some Fulltone GT-500 through the front.... some nice stuff actually. But since I tried these JS Vox units,... I removed my high $$ rack unit and just ran the Deja Vibe2,a Clyde Delux Waw and then into this Saturator and the time machine just simply in front of both amps. How simple and good sounding it is. I love the feedback too.... I really like what the sound of this Saturator does for me. It is now the chief of my sound with my amps instead of the high gain from the 5150 III's channel 3. It's quiet and very nice in sound. I am using a simple Battery. But I do use a wall wart with the Time machine and the Deja Vibe2 runs on AC so I also use AC Loop Hum Isolator with it to separate it from the wall wart and I use two separate AC isolators for loop hum on each of my amp heads. I have played with a lot of vintage gear through the years. It has it's place for 20 to 30 year old technology. But even people who know me and my sound came up to see what I was doing and wondered where my rack was. I will still keep most of my vintage gear but I really like the way these Vox JS pedals sound. A lot of time went into them in the making and I can hear the difference. But this is only my experience with them.

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Beware of Style

Posted by CJfromDFAF from Champaign, IL on Sep 7, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Professional Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Hardcore, Metal, Punk

I run an Epiphone G-400 into a Crate BX200 bass head and an Ampeg 4x12 guitar cab. Unorthodox set up I know, but it gives me something unique.

Because I'm running through a bass head, I needed distortion. So my friend lent the VOX Satchurator to me. Maybe it's because of the style, or maybe it's my weird set up. Either way it didn't work for me, at all.

The tone knob was the only way to adjust the lows and highs, and even with the 9-band EQ on my head, I couldn't get the tone to do right. The higher the tone knob the sharper the tone, the lower the knob the deeper the tone. But I couldn't find a mid point to satisfy me. Now as far as matching Satch's virtuoso style of playing, it's perfect, but I'm in a metal band so it didn't work for me at all.

So if you play that virtuoso kinda stuff, it may work. If you're like me though, you may want to turn elsewhere.

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