Fender Smolder Acoustic OD

Amazingly well achieved, controls work smoothly, solid construction and excellent features, specially the "pickup compensation" control. Piezo pickup reacts like a magnetic pickup, avoiding the feedback.
Also the blending control gives more color to the tone.

The only weak point is the switch. It's incredibly hard and noisy, it kills me!

Fender please improve that.

All the rest, great.

8.5/10

I am an amateur musician not good enough to play for or with other people. However I have a well equipped studio and play every day. I have lots of overdrives (100+) This is the first purpose built acoustic OD I have seen and I believe it is the first made so I had to have one. I already have other pedals in this range so had a good idea of what I would be getting. The Smolder looks great. Has a good range of drive for an acoustic guitar if used with another drive ( I use a Lovepedal Brownface DL). The controls are all very usable the Pickup Compensation and Blend knobs especially useful. I love the ease of battery change and the LEDs in the Knobs. The Fender Jewel light looks and sounds a great idea but personally I find them too bright. By far the worst feature in this pedal is the clunky footswitch. In a pro rig it would be unusable (the switch not the pedal) when you switch it the sounds is like someone dropped the mic. You would have to leave it on and put it in an effects loop if you wanted to switch it on and off.
If I was a gigging musician doing acoustic rock I would love to have a pair of these in my rig they would look great with some more brown acoustic pedals.