I've been designing this medium gain soft clipper on and off for about a year. Despite it being gold and horsey it's nothing like a Klon but is a medium gain blues machine that absolutely loves the neck pickup of a strat, Comp switch up, Size switch up, and dollops of warm reverb. Bliss. It'll get reasonably hairy, but I really didn't design it for that.
The 3 top controls are pretty self-explanatory. The COMP switch on the right is how much compression/clipping you want. Up is asymmetrical and rounder and vintage sounding, bottom is symmetrical red LEDs, and middle is no clipping at all if you want a thicker sound.
The SIZE switch on the right has 3 options as well - Small, Medium, Large - and this switch controls how much low end is in the signal. I've had a lot of OD pedals that when used as boosts on a dirty-ish amp, they flub out and muddy up the sound. I wanted something to remedy that.
There's the added benefit here that, when using it as a standalone OD into a clean channel, you've got the options of a warm juicy tone for your bridge leads (when size is down) or low-gain fingerpicked passages, or you can remove off a lot of the mud and wool from a LP neck pickup (with the switch either up or middle). I gotta say this is an absolute blast to use as a boost into a dirty recto, adding a really aggressive snarl and cut that's quite addicting, but one of my tele playing blues friends spent about 45 minutes with the gain low, volume up, comp switch up, into a clean ish Fender Hot Rod and loved it.
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I've got 3 of these made up in different shades of gold ranging from dark and muted to quite snazzy and garish.
Pedals are cool. Sparkly boxes are cool. Softboxes are cool.
