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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.

Love it
Mr Sparkle
Any comment on how this might sit with:
P90s into bassman 6g6b or supro black magic
335 70s Gibson tarbacks into same
Jazzmaster with a Tele master bridge into the 6g6

Aim: first two scenarios smooth over drive lead noodling
Third scenario: dirty clean junky surf b52s

Gracias

Looks slick, nice work!

Great job.

Wow, that is a great looking pedal. Gives Walrus Audio a run for their money.

Hot.

Aroused.

Looks awesome! Nice work Tez!

I've been playing a bit of Elden Ring recently, so this gets me a lil moist.

Th row it to the streets... I measn forum to pass around and review

NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:23 pm it's nothing like a Klon but is a medium gain blues machine that absolutely loves the neck pickup of a strat

Sounds absolutely nothing like a Klon.

robthemac wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:02 pm

NippleWrestler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:23 pm it's nothing like a Klon but is a medium gain blues machine that absolutely loves the neck pickup of a strat

Sounds absolutely nothing like a Klon.

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Looks great!

dayl wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:47 pm I've been playing a bit of Elden Ring recently, so this gets me a lil moist.

Th row it to the streets... I measn forum to pass around and review

Since I'm considering an artwork change (making the "overdrive" text bigger) I wouldn't be against sending it out, but on the other hand this is a product I sell so I don't want it getting fucked up either. But on my other other hand it's also a damn good pedal that people might like to play and exposure to the brand is not a bad thing, and if people wanted to make videos and/or talk about it that only helps MP in the long run.

I can send one out to someone if they can pass the parcel to another guy and then it gets back here when everyone's had their fun.