J.Rockett Audio Designs Blue Note Select

J. Rockett Audio Designs Blue Note Select – Bluesbreaker-style low-gain overdrive with Hot switch

Low gain overdrive · Bluesbreaker / amp-like inspiration · Hot switch · Improved low-end · Tone + Fat · True bypass · 9V · Battery compatible

The J. Rockett Audio Designs Blue Note Select is the V2 evolution of one of the company’s favorite circuits: the Blue Note. It brings back the spirit of the original Blue Note Pro Series —including the Hot switch— and refines it in a smaller package, with improved looks, feel and, most importantly, low-end response.

Tonally, the Blue Note is often placed in the Bluesbreaker / low-gain amp-like family: open, dynamic and highly touch-sensitive, designed to push an amp that is already breathing. This is not a mid-heavy Tube Screamer-style voice; the goal here is to preserve the character of your guitar and amp, add a sweet edge, and keep the whole thing feeling natural.

The Blue Note Select shines between boost, subtle overdrive and hotter drive. Like many great low-gain pedals, it works best when your amp is sitting just past the minimum point of edge of breakup. In that zone, the pedal doesn’t feel like it’s layering distortion on top — it simply makes the amp break up better, with more body and a more organic response.

The Fat control lets you tune the amount of low-end and low-mids, making it easy to match single coils, humbuckers, brighter amps or rigs that need more weight. The Select version improves this low-end response in both standard mode and Hot mode.

The Hot switch adds a second gain structure: more volume, more gain and a thicker push. That makes the Blue Note Select more versatile than it may first appear — an always-on sweetener, a subtle blues drive, a gritty boost, or a way to push a Plexi-style amp into more sustain and thickness.

Key features

• V2 evolution of the Blue Note circuit
• Dynamic low-to-medium gain overdrive
• Tonal inspiration: Bluesbreaker / amp-like overdrive
• Not a Tube Screamer: more open, less nasal, more natural
• Hot switch for a second gain structure
• Improved low-end response compared with previous versions
• Fat control for low-end and low-mid shaping
• Tone control for brightness and presence
• Ideal for pushing amps on the edge of breakup
• Great as an always-on drive or first gain stage
• Works especially well into breathing clean amps or Plexi/Marshall edge-of-breakup tones
• True bypass
• Compact format

Technical specifications

• Type: analog low-gain overdrive
• Controls: Volume, Gain, Tone, Fat
• Switch: Hot
• Bypass: True bypass
• Power: 9V DC center-negative
• Jack: 5.5 × 2.1 mm
• Current draw: 8mA
• Battery: 9V battery compatible
• Dimensions: 4.00″ × 2.30″
• Manufacturer: J. Rockett Audio Designs

Find the J. Rockett Audio Designs Blue Note Select at onemorepedal.com.

The overdrive that doesn’t want to sound like a pedal — it wants your amp to breathe better.