The Holy Fire is hard to compare with other pedals. The presence of full low end in the boost does make it a bit less ‘focused’ sounding than a nasaly tube screamer style pedal. But much better for rhythm in my opinion.

The distortion circuit isn’t quite as much down my alley as the OD circuit, but the pedal is used by much more rock oriented players than me. I’m mainly attracted to it because of the concepts behind it. My primary use of it would probably be as a rhythm boost pedal.

I’m most attracted to this pedal because it doesn’t lose low end, but wonder if that can create problems. Some users have said the pedal’s extra bass is a bit disorienting, but that’s probably due to experience with other pedals that lack bass. As the Holy Fire doesn’t lose bass, I’m curious why Creation Audio chose to add a treble cut knob. Excessive bass may be a problem with neck pickups (especially humbuckers), or with distorted, compressed levels (common for lead solo boosts). I would think a control to tweak (reduce) bass, or add some brightness would work better.

Does the Holy Fire ever lack focus or projection in the mix of a band?

From the videos I’ve seen (here and elsewhere), the distortion circuit seems very fuzzy, garbled and not very amp like. The overdrive circuit seems to sound natural, but a much cleaner amp setting would make it easier to evaluate what the pedal is doing. How the pedal cleans up is impressive, but at the extreme settings in the demo, the cleaned up level is too low to be of any practical use. I suppose it cleans up sooner at lower gain settings, so this could be a great feature.

I’d like to hear the pedal with the other Strat pickup combinations, and humbucker pickups. Most pedals are compatible with single coils, but I suspect the Holy Fire may be rather muddy with humbuckers.

My nit picking aside, your video and review comments are quite helpful. Good job! The concepts behind this pedal is intriguing, and I may give this one a try.

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