Pete Cornish GC-1 | The most flexible overdrive ever? 🤯

To celebrate their 45th year designing and building, the Pete Cornish team is proud to present a new design: the GC-1. The GC-1 offers the widest gain range from a Pete Cornish design to date!
The GC-1 is a completely new and unique three stage design which features both hard and soft clipping stages.
The pedal automatically switches between stages as the gain increases and offers the widest gain range of the Pete Cornish line.
With the gain set to minimum, the pedal surfs in the Soft Sustain range found in the SS-2 and SS-3 models.
Here, you'll find a beautifully smooth and transparent blues crunch.
Increasing the gain takes you gradually through the area of the G-2 and P-2 models.
This is where you’ll find those classic 1970s cranked up Marshall tone!
At maximum gain, the pedal is both harmonically rich, smooth and fat.
Infinite sustain is accessible with the right guitar/amp combination.
The pedal's powerful EQ is a huge part of the sound.
Even small changes give maximum tonal flexibility to suit any setup!
Plus, the GC-1 responds remarkably to your guitar's volume.
Gear used in the vid:
Two-Rock Classic Reverb Signature
Fender Stratocaster 1959 AVRI
Fender Telecaster 1952 AVRI
Gibson Les Paul Traditional
Gretsch G5622T
Harmony Bobkat
Jump around to specific parts of the demo:
00:00 - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
03:32 - Dry tone (Strat into Two-Rock Classic Reverb Signature)
03:36 - Checking out the Gain knob
05:37 - Checking out the Volume knob
06:27 - Checking out the Mids knob
07:48 - Checking out the Bass knob
09:34 - Checking out the Treble knob
10:39 - Tone shaping with the EQ section
12:07 - Dry tone (Les Paul into Two-Rock)
12:13 - Checking out the Gain knob with humbuckers
13:22 - Checking out the Volume knob with humbuckers
14:07 - Using the EQ section with humbuckers
15:57 - Running the GC-1 into an overdriven amp
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[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Jump around to specific parts of the demo:
00:00 - Pigs (Three Different Ones)
03:32 - Dry tone of Strat into Two-Rock Classic Reverb Signature
03:36 - Checking out the Gain knob
05:37 - Checking out the Volume knob
06:27 - Checking out the Mids knob
07:48 - Checking out the Bass knob
09:34 - Checking out the Treble knob
10:39 - Tone shaping with the EQ section
12:07 - Dry tone of Les Paul into Two-Rock
12:13 - Checking out the Gain knob with humbuckers
13:22 - Checking out the Volume knob with humbuckers
14:07 - Using the EQ section with humbuckers
15:57 - Running the GC-1 into an overdriven amp

[@mrc2662]

The playing and the tone are off the scale here. This is outstanding.

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks!

[@atlantaguitar9689]

Thanks for the painstaking process of documenting your experience here. It's quite helpful. Most pedal reviews are some guy talking for 5 minutes before playing anything followed by just a couple of examples.

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the vid :)

[@r.y.4854]

Thanks a lot for detailed tests/demos.
The pedal is as great as your plays.
Much appreciated 🎉

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

:)

[@r.y.4854]

Thank you so much. After watching it, I place an order of this particular pedal from Pete❤

[@adamaba1135]

Great demo!!!!

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks :)

[@andydolan13]

Glad I put in an alert reminder, just ordered mine from you guys. This will be my 6th Cornish pedal and they are fantastic, no monkey business, just solid all around tones. Great demo btw, shows the full range of available tones on the pedal. That Eq section is powerful, I use my CC-1s Eq to really shape my G-2, SS-2, NG-3 as well. Cant wait to get this pedal!

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Awesome, thanks for the order! How are you liking the pedal so far?

[@house-ghost]

Awesome

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

🙂

[@titan10377]

This pedal is my dream. Me who loves the sound of floyds 70. Thanks for doing this demo.

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the demo!

[@majd.z]

Wow, great job with PIGS ! Very original

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks!

[@bankersbanker7301]

Try your Cornish ST-2 after the GC-1 and you'll play all day. Also mess with your Strat volume to control the breakup of the GC-1. At each gain level SS-3, G2 and P-2 you'll get different breakup. I need a Two Rock. Wish I could play like you! Very nice!!!!

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks!

[@DeeBattery]

Great f#cking solo! That my favorite Pink song

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Awesome. Glad you enjoyed the vid!

[@jagtone]

Seems very much like a Buffalo TD-X in terms of gain range, versatility, intention, although I guess the EQ is a bit more flexible with the mids control. I've got a clone pcb waiting in the wings, and when it's done I can compare them directly. But that's not a criticism -- more like high praise.

[@CorbCorbin]

Love how the Strat sounds through it. With that active EQ you brought the Les Paul to life, and then through different eras of tone with every slight cut/boost of a knob.
I’d probably run it after a Fuzz Face, and my Russian style Muff, with a Clean boost after it, as that active EQ would be able to give me an extra lead tone for either, then have the GC on its own, with a clean boost for leads.
I really wish it had an expression control. I’d really like to have that full range of the gain knob while I’m playing.
I like the ones that control the sweep, so it can sound phasery or wah wah -ish, but this just needs it to sweep the gain.
A multi parameter expression would be nice too.
If I’ve decided to spend $650 on a drive pedal, another $50-$100 is worth Expression control over the gain.
It’s a beautiful piece either way, and you’ve put the final nail in convincing me to get one.
I’ll check Electric Mojo when I’m ready to buy one.

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the vid!

[@spacegoat77]

Get a like just for the cover at the beginning!

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks!

[@spacegoat77]

No thanks you

[@RichardGauss]

Magnific! Bravo!! 👏👏👏

[@ElectricMojoGuitars]

Thanks :)