I play in a band (see www.reflector.uk.com)and have been playing for 30 years. I have a Carl Martin Quattro Mk1 with tremolo. The Mark2 has a chorus rather than the tremolo but I wanted to play "Riders on the Storm" and "Money". The Quattro is great for me as I used various pedals and used up so many batteries and was about to buy a pedal board and multi 9v power supply etc then read about the Quattro in guitarist magazine. Bingo - it ticked all my boxes. I'd been looking for something like the Quattro for years! You get 1) an award winning compressor, 2) A low gain Overdrive for blues 3) A high gain Overdrive for rock 4) a tremolo (Mk1) or chorus (Mk2) 5) echo/delay and 6) Tap Tempo for the echo/delay. This is a simple rugged unit that you simply plug in to the main supply as you would your amp. Plug in your guitar and off you go. dead easy and reliable. I lengthened the power lead so it reaches all the way to the back of the stage. No problem doing that it was easy. All the effects are simple but have excellent tone with no undue noise and the unit is so simple to use. I have the compressor set up as a lead boost so if I am on clean I get a nicely compressed clean boost and if I am on overdrive I get a nicely compressed overdrive boost. Perfect set up! Add the echo for creamy David Gilmour solos. I play SRV/Fleetwood Mac Blues and Gary Moore/Thin Lizzy/Led Zeppelin rock and this pedal is simply great. It has a loop to add extra effects after the overdrive but before the echo/tremolo but I've not found the need to add anything extra except a wah between my guitar and the Quattro. I put dabs of Tip-Ex on my favourite settings so I can dial them in easily when setting up for a gig. Excellent pedal in every way and I only mark it down for the want of a longer power lead and a way to mark your favourite settings without using Tip-Ex! If it were stolen I'd buy another one in an instant. My amp is now set only on clean with a touch of Reverb. Expensive? - Well, not really, when you get such tone, reliability and ease of use. This is a long term keeper for sure.

I have brought this wonderful pedal today and its all people including Carl Martin say it is .Sturdy casing and bypass switch and great sounds .I was after the slapback sound and this machine delivers !.One moan is that the battery cover is really thin and flimsey and is gonna be either lost or broken quite soon then the gaffer tape will have to come out !.Otherwise Top Work !!!!!

I play an old traynor yba-1 through a marshall 4x12. I don't use any effects except for a distortion or overdrive pedal so it's REALLY important to me what that ONE magic pedal is. I used a boss ds-1 for tons of gigs but noticed it muddies up when the amp is cranked so i set out to find an "overdrive" pedal somewhere in between a distortion and an overdrive. After trying tons of boss, dunlop (mxr)and maxxon pedals i tried the carl martin CRUSH ZONE. WOW!, the first thing i noticed is its a loud pedal. With the distortion all the way down and the level straight up it proved waaay louder than all other pedals when a-b'd between them. The CRUSH ZONE has an instantly noticable "presence" about it that the others lacked. A certain x factor voodoo vibe that makes your sound come alive! It sound like a great distortion with a BBE sonic maximizer attached to it. Hit a chord and it rages with distortion but each and every note in that chord can still be heard! Each control has a ton of room in it so where most pedal controls go from 0-10 the CRUSH ZONE SEEMS TO SWEEP FROM 0-30! The level speaks for itself, the tone control goes from a warmish brown tone to extreme cut. The distortion control is where this pedal excells. The only reason I gave this pedal a 9 is when the distortion is dialed all the way off it still has a bit of fizz. Other than that the distortion will dial from slight cutty fizz to way beyond any usable gain. It actually has more distortion than you could ever need! It has its own very well voiced, tone than makes it great for a single stomp box player like me. Instant VH1 ALBUM brown tone with a nice cut that is not irritating to the ears. A godsend if you want great chord tone but need that extra cut for leads. Set it for your lead tone then roll back the volume control on your guitar a notch for rhythm. Its that easy! If you want blue to brown to death the tones are here! When a pedal is designed by a company, there are always one or two or a group of people that sit around during the researching that say wether "that sounds good or that sounds bad". Whoever has that job at Carl Martin has a great set of ears! Good work guys!

The Carl Martin Red Repeat has an easy, comfortable analog feel and sound. It looks retro, but not schlock retro. Retro in a functional kind of way. But for me, an effect not only has to sound right, it also has to be easy to work with my feet. This is where these new CM Vintage pedals (They've also introduced the Crush Zone distortion overdrive and the Surf Trem tremolo in this same lineup) have many of the other guys beat. Big knobs with some space between them and a slightly bigger footprint than many other pedals---but not too big.

I favor analog units over digital because they don't usually have hyper-sensitive controls. This is as smooth and intuitive as any pedal I've ever used. After you figure out a setup to get a particular sound you’re looking for, it only takes a few seconds to dial it in again, because the obvious visual knob positioning makes the settings very easy to set from your memory.

And the sound is just as good as the ergonomics. The tone knob allows me to brighten the echo a bit, something I like, though most people don't. You can also use the tone knob to go as dark as you need, which many people say is what they look for in a delay unit. Bottom line is that you have the ability to do either using the Tone knob. There's 600ms of delay to play around with, which for me is plenty. Slapback, Rockabilly, Power Ballad, Surf, whatever, they all sound very natural. Great sounding pedal.

The RR is well built, with a metal switch and a cast metal case sitting on four small rubber feet that are screwed in, not just stuck on. The chicken head knobs seem like they just came off of your grandmother's oven, minus the bacon grease. Very solid. The only thing that's suspect are the input and output jacks. They feel a bit tight, but hey, maybe that's a good thing.

From slapback to spacey to "spooge", that all out regenerative swell (why you’d want that, I’ll never know), this pedal will get you there. But there’s absolutely no stress factor in achieving any of these sounds. Totally effortless. This effect is every bit worth the money, and I'll bet it ends up becoming a classic. As I said above---and as stupid as it may seem---I love being able to control effects with my feet, and I'll bet I'm not the only one. And at age 47, that's starting to be less of a convenience and more of a necessity! In fact, I’m tempted to dump some of my other pedals in favor of other foot-friendly effects, so I never have to bend over again. The big effects manufacturers need to take notes from Carl Martin on how to make an effects pedal easier to work with your feet. After all, that's why they're called "pedals", right?