Believable Audio 29 Pedals FLWR

This is the 29 Pedals FLWR. Let’s talk about aesthetics for a second. It is an effect pedal, so it is box shaped, made of metal strong enough to support your weight when you step on it and it has the mandatory foot switch to activate it. Apart from that, it sports a very minimal design and a beautiful hue of surf green. The LED that shows the status sits below a diamond bezel and it shines through the gaps in the three toggle switches. I really like the looks of every single one of the 29 Pedals range, but I like this best of them all.

It was described as a pedal that goes from low gain all the way to fuzz, but putting the FLWR in my setup means I pretty much get get only low gain OD. You have those options for shaping the gain stage and selecting the clipping diodes on the three switches. I quite like the Idea of having those tiny knobs that are not even protruding much from the surface, so you can carefully set it and be confident that those settings stay. However, I would have wished for a small white marker to see the knob position.

When using the minimal settings ( 3 | B | 0 ), with the gain knob dimed I just get some flavor to the sound, but not much audible dirt to speak of. Even running higher settings will not yield a Fuzzy tone, it firmly stays in overdrive. I guess that my flats are not feeding it much to work with in terms of overtones and on top of that, my bass does not have a very strong output.

I did notice a certain lack of top end when I played through the FLWR in any of the settings, placing it a bit more on the darker side of drives.

I want to say again that the pedal has a stunning beauty to it. I really dig the aesthetics.
The Whatever plug that will accept 7,5-35 Volts in either polarity, AC or DC is a super cool feature.
However, the input and output jacks are too close to each other. I can’t use my favored Hicon Pancake Jacks on both of these.

It is a slightly different approach to how a drive pedal is made, but at the end of the day, it is a beautifully made drive pedal with limited tonal options. The sound is slightly dark and not all options make sense for the use with a bass guitar. It’s one of the pedals I surely would re-visit if I changed camps and became a player of bright roundwound strings, but being where I am, I only see a limited usefulness for my personal sound.