Cornerstone Imperium Drive Pedal Review

I love the #guitar and guitar gear. I love guitar #pedals, especially #overdrive pedals, and have tried many, many different ones over the years. I've tried the best and many of the flavours-of-the-month, and this new #Imperium by #Cornerstone just claimed its spot on my primary board within about 30 minutes of me opening it!

For those of you not sure who Cornerstone are, here's a little history.

Cornerstone Music Gear is an Italian company who burst onto the scene with their take on the Dumble sound with their Gladio Pedal. This was inspired by the tones of Robben Ford, Sonny Landreth, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and other famous Dumble users.

The Gladio

The concept of the pedal was to produce something that helped users capture those tones, whilst retaining pure amp-like compression and great dynamics.

The Gladio is also a dual drive, with channel one voiced like Robben Ford's tone on Cannonball Shuffle, and channel two going for Sonny Lanreth's tone on Elemental Journey.

Here are links to these tracks if you want to have a listen. They are great songs so well worth grabbing a beverage and enjoying them.

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