The PRS Horsemeat Pedal: Organic Overdrive With Exceptional Tone-Shaping

The PRS Horsemeat joins the core pedal lineup bringing the legendary overdriven amp sound to your rig with exceptional tone-shaping ability. Designed and built in Stevensville, Maryland, the Horsemeat captures the rich harmonic complexity of a cranked tube amp while retaining your guitar’s natural tone. This transparent overdrive enhances rather than masks, adding harmonic depth and touch sensitivity for leads that sing.

Beyond killer overdrive tones, the Horsemeat sets itself apart with its powerful 4-band EQ. This level of tone control allows precise tailoring to any guitar and amplifier combination. Dial back the bass to tighten up fuzz pedals or boost mids to cut through a mix. Find sweet-spots unique to your rig for dynamic clean boost, low gain overdrive, and searing distortion.

Smooth, Organic Gain Staging

The Horsemeat brings a famously smooth overdrive response in a compact pedal format. As you increase the gain, note definition remains intact thanks to smart gain staging that doesn’t compress transients or muddy up the sound. Clear, touch-sensitive tone makes this pedal exceptionally responsive for subtle playing dynamics. The gain range spans just enough grit to hit the front end of an already cooking amp to rich, harmonic saturation.

Retaining Your Natural Tone

As the name suggests, the Horsemeat takes a transparent approach that retains and enhances your baseline guitar tone. Thanks to its analog design, your guitar’s timber and EQ curve carry through organically. The overdrive enriches tone with added sustain, touch sensitivity, and harmonic depth. This makes the Horsemeat ideal for pursuing your amp’s natural overdrive without squashing dynamics. It particularly shines with tube amps, adding supposed “missing valves” to vintage low-wattage amps.

Complete Signal Chain Flexibility

The Horsemeat gives you flexibility to integrate into any signal chain thanks to its independent EQ. Place early in your chain as a foundational preamp to feed other pedals. Position later to push a tube amp into sweet overdrive. Use it as standalone tone shaping to revive a lackluster instrument. The classic overdrive tone with extensive EQ control make this pedal suitable for guitar, bass, keyboards, and well beyond. Note as well that it stacks beautifully with other PRS pedals like the MT-15.

Careful Construction, Class-Leading Quality

PRS pulls out all stops when it comes to component selection and build quality. Based in their Stevensville Maryland shop, PRS engineers obsess over each design aspect from circuit layout to switchgear. Every solder joint and connection receives careful inspection. Top-quality converters and audiophile-grade film capacitors translate into exceptional dynamic response and ultra-low noise. The result is a pedal that lives up to the esteemed PRS name as a leader in boutique musical instrument craftsmanship.

Experience Legendary Overdrive, Perfected

In a market flooded with derivatives and clones, the PRS Horsemeat stands apart as an original boutique design. The rich harmonic overdrive breathes life into clean tones while retaining exceptional note clarity and definition. Guitarists have direct control over integrating this pedal thanks to the surgical 4-band EQ. For players seeking the holy grail of tube-amp inspired overdrive, the Horsemeat delivers those organic, elastic tones in a road-ready unit. Audiophile grade components and meticulous build quality make this pedal a long-term investment. If boutique tone is your aim, put the PRS Horsemeat on your board.