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* [[C9]]: Another multi-organ simulator, offering additional organ sounds.
 
* [[C9]]: Another multi-organ simulator, offering additional organ sounds.
 
* [[Double Muff]]: '''(discontinued) -''' Older-version of two cascaded Muff Fuzz units housed in the older, folded-sheet metal enclosure.
 
* [[Double Muff]]: '''(discontinued) -''' Older-version of two cascaded Muff Fuzz units housed in the older, folded-sheet metal enclosure.
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* [[Germanium Big Muff]]: Both overdrive and distortion, but each with voltage starving and the woolly sound of germanium transistors.
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* [[Germanium Big Muff]]: Double pedal with overdrive and distortion, each side offering voltage starve and woolly sound of germanium transistors.
 
* [[Holiest Grail]]: '''(out of production) -''' Possibly the most flexible and customizable analog reverb ever made. Very rare.
 
* [[Holiest Grail]]: '''(out of production) -''' Possibly the most flexible and customizable analog reverb ever made. Very rare.
 
* [[Metal Muff]]: This is the first "full" Metal Muff with Top Boost.
 
* [[Metal Muff]]: This is the first "full" Metal Muff with Top Boost.

Revision as of 17:21, 1 February 2022

Here is a list of the effects available for rent from Thermionic Studios. Every pedal listed here is one that we have in inventory (or have all the parts for and are in the process of assembling) and available for you to try out. We believe that if you're interested in tone-shaping for yourself, it might be nice for you to find out what you like before deciding that you're going to invest a lot of money in obtaining such pedals for yourself.

We have a few things listed along with the companies here for clarity - here's an explanation:

  • (Production pedals): This means that this company builds and sells full working pedals. Just buy, plug in, and play
  • (Built-from-PCB pedals): This company sells (mostly) only printed circuit boards (PCBs). We have purchased the PCB, and the necessary electronic parts to assemble this pedal.
  • (Kit pedals): This company sells kits that consist of the PCB, the enclosure, and all the electronics necessary. You're on the hook to assemble. Sometimes, despite the fact that the company offers primarily kits, low customer interest and lack of sales volume of certain pedals will prevent a company from putting together certain kits. In those cases, it's not uncommon for the company to offer just the PCB. When we believe there's an interesting pedal and only the PCB is available, we'll still buy the PCB and source the necessary parts.

We also have notes, where applicable, that are specific to each pedal - here's an explanation:

  • (pcb): We purchased this pedal as a PCB only and have sourced the parts to build it.
  • (kit): We have purchased this kit and have assembled or are assembling the pedal from the kit.
  • (modified): We purchased this pedal and have purchased and have applied, or are applying, a modification that we feel benefits the pedal.
  • "nothing": Where there is no indicator, this is simply a production pedal that we've not had to put any additional work into.

Where we have "(discontinued)" listed for a pedal, it means that the particular pedal that we have is no longer being produced by that company. For example, we have the Dunlop Uni-Vibe listed as (discontinued), yet if you go to JimDunlop.com, you'll see that they offer a uni-vibe pedal for sale. What we mean is that the VERSION of Uni-Vibe that we have is the older lamp-controlled Uni-Vibe with the original architecture, not the re-worked (non-lamp) version that fits into the smaller "deck-of-cards" sized pedal that is now available.

In other cases we specify, "(out of production)" meaning that no version of the pedal is made anymore - it's out of production, and there is no intended replacement. This pedal has reached end-of-life. This could happen because the company has decided to stop making the pedal completely. It could happen because the pedal company is out-of-business. A good example of this would be with the Build Your Own Clone Armstrong Twin kit. We spoke to BYOC and it was the case that not enough people were buying the Armstrong Twin for them to make it a product continuing forward. So we got one of their last PCBs for it.

With respect to pedals, and in keeping with our amplifier philosophy, please note that we ALWAYS attempt where ever and whenever possible, to collect pedals that we believe are artistically meaningful and musically significant. Our goal is to help you get to the "tone-nirvana" you either have in your head, or are perhaps still seeking.

Many of the pedals (production pedals) we have are no longer available at all (like our Electro-Harmonix Holiest Grail, or our Damage Control pedals) and must be long-sought on eBay and other used-equipment sites like Reverb.com. In most cases, clones are not available, and when another such pedal will be available for sale is questionable. Once these pedals break and can no longer be fixed, unless we can source others, they will likely be gone for good.

1776 Effects

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

AMT Electronics

(Production pedals)

  • E1: Engl-emulated Preamp and distortion pedal.
  • SS-11B: Modern Tube Preamp and distortion pedal.

Bogner

(Production pedals)

  • Ecstasy: Multi-option overdrive, patterned after the Ecstasy tube amp, also made by Bogner.

Boss/Roland

(Production Pedals)

  • BD-2: (modified) - "Blues Driver" Overdrive / Distortion pedal with Monte Allums BD-2 upgrade.
  • BF-2: (out of production) - "Flanger" Japanese version.
  • CE-5: (modified) / (discontinued) - "Chorus Ensemble" older (pre-2001) analog version chorus pedal.
  • DD-3: (discontinued) - "Digital Delay" (older Made-in-Japan version) up to 800ms, including a "hold" function.
  • DD-20: (out of production) - "GigaDelay" dual pedal with delay, editable configurations, and sampling up to 23 seconds.
  • DN-2: (out of production) - "DynaDrive" varies from overdrive to distortion based on how hard strings are struck.
  • DS-1: "Distortion" (older Made-in-Japan version) First made by Boss in 1978. Still made today, if with different guts now.
  • OC-2 (2) (out of production): "Octave" effect with dry signal, one octave down, and two octaves down.
  • RC-2: (discontinued) - "Loop Station" - build loops for practice or rehearsal. Considered "more immediate" than RC-3, no hiccups on drum tracks.
  • TU-3 (2): "Chromatic Tuner" A simple LED/visual pedal based tuner for your instrument.
  • XT-2: (out of production) - "Xtortion" a distortion with controls as if paired with a fixed wah filter.

BYOC/Build Your Own Clone

(Kit Pedals)

  • 855 Drive (kit): Tube Screamer work-alike with twice the gain.
  • Amp Selector FX Router (kit): (discontinued) - selectable between two different amps, or two different effects loops, or creating a stereo effect.
  • Armstrong Twin (pcb): (out of production) - combination of Dan Armstrong's Orange Squeezer and Green Ringer in a single pedal.
  • B.G. Fuzz (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-available AF-60 "BeeGee", a fuzz pedal by Roland prior to the creation of the Boss company.
  • Classic Compressor (kit): Vintage Ross Compressor with "extra special" vintage parts for enhanced compression.
  • Envelope Filter Fixed Wah (kit): Similar to the MXR KFKQZ1(QZone). Envelope filter *and* fixed position wah.
  • Large Beaver (kit): (discontinued) - Big Muff work-alike with four tone stack selections to create different muff tone textures.
  • Lazy Sprocket (kit): clone of the famous but limited and out-of-production Boss SG-1 Slow Gear pedal.
  • Leeds Fuzz (kit): clone of the infamous but now out-of-production Univox Superfuzz pedal.
  • Parametric EQ (kit): Pedal consisting of parametric tone controls for shaping bass, midrange, and treble frequencies.
  • Parametric Multiband Compressor (kit): Unique compressor pedal with parametric tone controls for both bass and treble.
  • Phase Royal (kit): (discontinued) - An MXR Phase 90 work-alike with many additional controls for greater flexibility.
  • Soaring Skillet (pcb):
  • The Swede (kit): A remake of the Boss HM-2, "Heavy Metal" distortion pedal.
  • Tri Boost (kit): (out of production) - select between three different boosts for different boost/overdrive textures.

Catalinbread

(Production Pedals)

  • Manx Loaghtan: (out of production) - Big Muff Pi with enhanced tone control.
  • Naga Viper: A silicon-transistor based treble booster with a couple of additional controls.
  • SCOD: (out of production) - Called the "Super Charged Overdrive", it's based on Orange's amplifier overdrive stack.
  • SFT: (discontinued) - An emulator of the older Ampeg SVT amplifiers.

Damage Control

(Production Pedals)

  • Demonizer: (out of production) - Modern high gain tube preamp with boost.
  • Solid Metal: (out of production) - Damage Control's highest gain tube distortion pedal; not a preamp.
  • Timeline: (out of production) - Tube-based multi-delay/repeat pedal.
  • Womanizer: (out of production) - Classic tube preamp with boost capable of JCM-800-style hot-rodded distortion.

DeadAstronautFX

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Abductor II (pcb): Echo with control for each of four delay chips, in addition to modulation effect.
  • Astro Flange (pcb): A flanger-filter with three-way modulation that can be toggled on and off.
  • AstroSim (2) (pcb): Vintage / modern cabinet simulator with additional headphone and XLR outs.
  • Black Triangle (2) (pcb): "Metal Overdrive". A version of a Tube Screamer with additional gain stage and clipping.
  • Dreamtime (pcb): Smooth delay with oscillator for trippy after-delay modulation.
  • Faze Filter (pcb): A phaser combined with a filter effect that can be oscillated.
  • Skinwalker (pcb): High gain distortion with additional pre-gain boost control.
  • Skyscape (pcb): Chorus with additional modulation. We're not big on chorus, so this was big for us.
  • Timestream (pcb): Tiny reverb pedal can go from subtle reverb to smooth, wet hallways, to ragged self-oscillation.
  • TremShifter (2) (pcb): Similar to the Faze Filter, the Tremshifter is a tremolo effect combined with an oscillating filter effect.

DeadEndFX

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Anubis (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-in-production Sunn O))) Life pedal by Earthquaker.
  • Atomic Duck (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-available Frostwave Funk-a-Duck.
  • Cosmo King (pcb): Clone of the unheard-of Royal Cosmo Wah; a Ring-mod with added vibe effect.
  • Definite Phase (pcb): A work-a-like clone PCB of the ProphecySound Systems Infinitphase. Amazingly unique phaser effect.
  • DEFX Superfuzz (pcb): A totally period-accurate recreation of an original Shin-Ei Superfuzz PCB.
  • Enigma (pcb): Clone of the Lovetone "?" Nameless Flanger.
  • Flange-a-Rama (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-available Ibanez Classic Flange FL-99.
  • Hooke (pcb): An actual old-style spring reverb inside a foot pedal.
  • Ludwig II (pcb): A sleeker version clone of the effect that almost bankrupted the Ludwig drum company. Includes expression treadle pedal.
  • Moonstone (pcb): MrDigi2t and Cozybuilder at DIYStompboxes took liberties with imagining the combination of Wyllie's Moonrock and New Moon pedals.
  • Mr. Multi (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-available Korg FK-2 Mr. Multi Wah (Wah/Phaser/Wah+Phaser)pedal.
  • PLLone (pcb): Clone of the Schumann PLL - a crazy "multiplier" effect that also has drone and moment functions. Must be heard to be believed.
  • Pompei (pcb): Clone of the Synthi Hi-Fli, used by David Gilmour at his Pompei performance. Includes 2(!!) expression pedals.
  • Spectrum (pcb): Clone of the very rare and no-longer-available Holmes H-X6 Spectrum pedal.
  • String Ringer (pcb): Clone of the "now-only-found-used" Lovetone Ring Stinger ring modulator.
  • Talkalizer (pcb): Front end of an EHX Talking pedal and Backend of a Colorsound Vocalizer. Vocal formant "YOY" sound controlled by a wah pedal.
  • Terrahawk (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-available Hawk II Tonal Expander, a boost pedal with tone stack.
  • Tresonator (pcb): The no-longer-made Frostwave Resonator put into a wah pedal so the functions can be controlled with the treadle.

Delptronics

(Kit pedals)

  • Thunderclap (kit): emulates the old Roland TR-808 "hand-clap" sound. Boss originally released the HC-2 "Hand-Clapper" in 1984, but this is now only available second-hand.

Digitech/DOD

(Production Pedals)

  • Crossroads: (out of production) - Eric Clapton "multi pedal" that does everything badly. Ideal candidate for Bad Device Chain Challenge.
  • Distortion 555-A: (out of production) - A very poor-sounding distortion from the early 80s that we hunted down specifically for the Bad Device Chain Challenge!
  • Grunge: (out of production) - A distortion pedal that sounds a lot more like metal than "grunge". Many hate it. We think it's great.
  • Hyper Phase: (out of production) - A phaser with many additional features.
  • Luxe: (out of production) - Polyphonic detuner effect: 12-string emulation and chorusing.
  • Synth Wah: (out of production) - An envelope filter that has many additional features.

Dunlop/MXR

Dunlop

Jim Dunlop, the company (as opposed to the man), is probably best known for its association with (ownership of) the Crybaby Wah-wah pedal, and both the MXR and Way Huge brands. That said, it was Jim Dunlop who took the wah-wah pedal from the edge of obscurity, purchased the business and rights for the wah-wah from Whirlpool Manufacturing in the mid-1980s, and kept the legacy and the effect going. Dunlop is also known for reissuing the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face as well as a version of the Roger Mayer-developed Jimi Hendrix Octavio effect.

(Production Pedals)

  • EP101 Echoplex: Derived from the Echoplex EP-3 Preamp, this is a solid state tone "sweetener".
  • JD4S Rotovibe (2): Treadle-controlled vibrato/chorusing (vibe) effect.
  • JDF2 Fuzz Face: Germanium fuzz face. Dunlop has their own germanium transistors made for this pedal.
  • JH1B Hendrix Wah (2): (discontinued) - Jimi Hendrix chrome top wah-wah.
  • JH-OC1 Octavio: (discontinued) - Clone of the Roger Mayer/TycoBrahe "block of cheese" octave fuzz.
  • TVP-1 Tremolo: (out of production) - Treadle-controlled tremolo effect.
  • UV-1 Univibe: (discontinued) - Our Uni-Vibe is the model lacking the "vintage" switch. It's that old...

MXR

MXR is a brand that was started in the late 1970s. MXR obtained much of its notoriety by having been associated with Eddie Van Halen and his early artistic output. However, MXR has long been used and loved by many professional musicians. After MXR went out of business in the 1980s, the rights of the company were purchased by Jim Dunlop who has carried on the promise of MXR as a maker of premium analog-electronic pedals.

(Production Pedals)

  • CSP001 Variphase: (out of production) - MXR Phase 90 in a treadle where the sweep of the treadle determines the speed of the phasing.
  • CSP101SL Script Phase 90 (2): Updated version of the original MXR Phase 90 script version with LED.
  • CSP265 Bonamassa FET Driver: (out of production) - An overdrive pedal designed for Joe Bonamassa with active EQ.
  • EVH90 EVH Phase 90: MXR Phase 90 with a switch enabling either the Block-era or the Script-era phaser intensity.
  • EVH117 EVH Flanger (2): Almost identical to the M117R flanger excepting paintjob and a button to set the flanger to "Eddie Van Halen" mode.
  • KFK1 10-band EQ: (out of production) - 10-band led-lit graphic EQ with 2 outputs and custom Kerry King graphics.
  • KFKQZ1 QZone: (out of production) - This pedal is like taking a wah-wah and fixing the sweep of the wah at a certain spot and leaving it on.
  • M80 Bass DI+: - 2-channel direct-inject for bass with gate and balanced line-out.
  • M101 Phase 90: The ever-popular one-knob "Phase 90" Phaser pedal.
  • M108 10-band EQ: (discontinued) - 10-band led-lit graphic EQ with 1 output.
  • M109 6-band EQ: (discontinued) - 6-band led-lit graphic EQ with 1 output.
  • M117 Flanger: The original black MXR flanger with the attached power cord!
  • M117R Flanger (2): Reissue of the original pedal made famous by Eddie Van Halen and the song "Unchained".
  • M134 Stereo Chorus: A chorus effect with additional controls for wet volume and tone.
  • M169 Carbon Copy: An all-analog delay harkening back to the early days of analog, bucket-brigade delays.
  • M173 Classic 108 Fuzz: A silicon fuzz-face redesigned to include a buffer to allow greater versatility.
  • M182 El Grande Bass Fuzz: (out of production) - A classic fuzz design tuned to bass frequencies.
  • SF01 Slash Octave Fuzz: A fuzz pedal combined with both octave up and octave down.

Way Huge

(Production Pedals)

  • Swollen Pickle: Way Huge take on a Muff-style fuzz with maximum tone alteration capabilities.

Effects Layouts

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Highflier (pcb): Amp emulator.
  • Nezumi Drive (pcb): Distortion.
  • Odd One Out (pcb): Overdrive.
  • RNGD (pcb): Glitch-Delay.
  • Soleo (pcb): Boost / Fuzz.
  • Sunnbeam (pcb): Amp emulator.
  • Super Trouper (pcb): Amp emulator.
  • Suprolo (pcb): Amp emulator.
  • Undercut (pcb): Three-band EQ and volume drop. We may pass on the whole volume-drop thing and get some different component values.
  • Virtuoso Fuzz (pcb): Vintage Fuzz, remake of the venerable and unobtainium-like Maestro Fuzz FZ-1.

Electric Druid

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

Electro-Harmonix

(Production Pedals)

  • Analogizer: Short analog delay combined with overdrive to "soften" or "analogize" an otherwise digital signal.
  • Attack Decay: Envelope-controlled volume-swell pedal. Swells the volume when a note is struck for violin-like tones.
  • B9: Multi-organ simulator, emulating sounds of the Hammond model B9 organ.
  • C9: Another multi-organ simulator, offering additional organ sounds.
  • Double Muff: (discontinued) - Older-version of two cascaded Muff Fuzz units housed in the older, folded-sheet metal enclosure.
  • Germanium Big Muff: Double pedal with overdrive and distortion, each side offering voltage starve and woolly sound of germanium transistors.
  • Holiest Grail: (out of production) - Possibly the most flexible and customizable analog reverb ever made. Very rare.
  • Metal Muff: This is the first "full" Metal Muff with Top Boost.
  • Ravish Sitar: Pedal which adds additional drone notes to your playing, like a sitar.
  • Ring Thing: Multi-feature ring modulator with auto-shifting ring modulation, pitch shifting, and 9 presets.
  • Small Clone: The "classic" Electro Harmonix chorus effect. Older effect in the classic sheet metal EH4800 enclosure.
  • Small Stone: (discontinued) The famous phaser housed in the older folded sheet metal EH4800 enclosure.
  • Stereo Pulsar: Analog tremolo with controls for shaping of the tremolo wave, not just the tremolo intensity.
  • The Worm: Combination fixed wah / phaser / vibrato / tremolo; fixed wah can be changed with expression pedal.

EHX Tube Pedals

  • Black Finger: (out of production) - Multi-control vacuum-tube powered compressor.
  • English Muff'n (3): Two 12AY7 tubes powered with with full voltage make this a 100% tube-driven preamp. Our new favorite tube pre-amp mod platform.
  • Hot Tubes: (out of production) - The "other" EHX Hot Tubes pedal. This is another pure tube preamp one with 2 full-voltage 12ax7 tubes.
  • LPB 2ube: (out of production) - Tube-driven "LPB" boost pedal. Two 12ax7 tubes each powering separate channels with both volume and gain boost.
  • Tube Eq: (out of production) - 3-band frequency equalizer with middle frequency having parametric tone controls.
  • Wiggler: (out of production) - Four different styles of vibrato (Leslie, Hammond, Vox, Wurlitzer) and vacuum tube-generated amplitude-modulation tremolo.

Fuzzdog's Pedal Parts

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

General Guitar Gadgets

(Kit pedals)

  • BMP Civil War (kit): Big Muff with the "Civil War" version tonestack.
  • BMP Green Russian (kit): Big Muff with the "Green Russian" version tonestack.
  • BMP OpAmp (kit): Big Muff with distorting opamps instead of transistors, the sound made famous by Smashing Pumpkins.
  • BMP Rams Head (kit): Big Muff with the "Rams Head" version tonestack.
  • BrassMaster (kit): Clone of the out-of-production Maestro BrassMaster Bass effect pedal.
  • Bronx Cheer (pcb): PCB-only of the Bronx Cheer effect by Tim Escobedo. Buzzy-sounding, but not quite a fuzz.
  • BSIAB2 (3) (kit): Brown-Sound-In-A-Box-2, excellent high-gain distortion pedal developed by DIY'ers.
  • Headphone Amp (pcb): Like it sounds, not even really a pedal - for practicing at home. We doubt anyone wants to rent this.
  • ITS8 (kit): Ibanez Tube Screamer 808 clone with additional modifications available.
  • Klon Centaur (kit): Replica of the "Best Overdrive in the World" Klon Centaur.
  • Mini Mixer (kit): A simple four-channel mixer in a pedal-sized enclosure.
  • Orange Squeezer (kit): Clone of the Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer.
  • Rodent (pcb): We bought this to rebuild our existing Rat2 into better "Rat".
  • Scrabbler (2) (kit): Clone of the out-of-production Ampeg Scrambler.
  • TOCT (kit): Tyco Brahe Octavia clone. We spent way too much time describing this since it's going into a different pedal.
  • GGG Custom Wah (2) (pcb): Customizable wah-wah pedal with 5 tone settings and 2 switchable inductors.

Grind Customs FX

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Fluffgirl (2) (pcb): (out of production) - a "bouncy" envelope filter, inspired by the EHX Bassballs.
  • Goat v3 (pcb): (out of production) - a throaty overdrive modeled on the original Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal, this one's been pushed into full distortion.
  • Machette (pcb): (out of production) - a combination of Tim Escobedo's "Ugly Face" and a low-frequency oscillator (LFO).
  • Ultrastoner (pcb): (out of production) - a big muff circuit tuned to be a "doom machine".

Guitar PCB

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • 4-Track Fuzz (pcb): Replicates the "smeary" sort of overdrive sound from a 4-track cassette recorder.
  • American Fuzz v3 (pcb): (out of production) - Workalike of the Mosrite Fuzzrite Fuzz pedal. Very splatty.
  • Apollo Tremolo (pcb): A reworking of the Tremulus Lune tremolo.
  • Dr. Rock v2 (pcb): (out of production) - A distortion in the vein of a goosed 1980s Marshall (JCM-800) amplifier
  • G-02 Animal v1 (2) (pcb): A workalike and G-PCB's take on the Pete Cornish G2 pedal.
  • Mastodon Fuzz v2a (pcb): A workalike of the ZVex Wooly Mammoth Fuzz pedal.
  • MoWah v3 (pcb): GuitarPCB's own take of a W ah-Wah pedal circuit.
  • OMG Mongoose Fuzz v3 (pcb): (out of production) - A re-imagining of the "purple rocketship" distortion by Roger Mayer.
  • Paramix v4 (pcb): A serial- or parallel-mixing pedal and controller.
  • Sriracha Fuzz (kit): Bought this because it's such a great-sounding fuzz.
  • Sunn-T Preamp (pcb): A reimagining of the Sunn Model T preamp and associated tonestack.
  • Tone Tweq (pcb): A T-M-B tonestack pedal for tone shaping your end signal, or other specific pedals, as desired.

Jeds Peds

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

JMK PCBs

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Blue Warbler 2 (pcb): Envelope-controlled Vibrato and Tremolo.
  • Expandora (pcb): Clone of the no-longer available Bixonic Expandora.
  • Hoodoo Drive (pcb): JMKPCBs swears this is the best-sounding overdrive they've heard. We'll give it a shot.
  • Level Up (pcb): Drive/Octave/Boost.
  • Modulay (pcb): With "noise" and "warble-speed" minipots, we're gonna put this delay into a treadled Wah enclosure.

Madbean Pedals

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Archibald (pcb): A remake (with more controls) of the BK Butler Tube Driver (with 12ax7 tube!).
  • Bloviator (pcb): A clone of the BBE Sonic Maximizer effect.
  • Blue Steel (pcb): The Boss BD-2 Blues Driver with enhanced controls
  • Bumblebee (pcb): A clone of the out-of-production Baldwin Burns "Buzzaround" pedal.
  • Burly Bear (pcb): An updated or "fixed" (it sounds much better) Ibanez FZ-7 Fuzz.
  • Current Lover (pcb):
  • Dragonbeard (pcb): A clone of the out-of-production Bixonic Expandora.
  • Edgelord (pcb): Remake and enhancement of the Ibanez SB-7 Bass Synthesizer; unique enough from other filters to deserve a build.
  • Exploder (pcb): A tweaked version of the Ampeg Scrambler (Called "Eggsploder" by Madbean, but we're not big that name).
  • Flabulanche (pcb): (out of production) - An original Overdrive/Compression pedal by Jon Patton.
  • Freekout (pcb): (out of production) - A clone of the discontinued Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyzer.
  • Fuzzy Britches (pcb): Another remake of the long-discontinued Jordan Bosstone.
  • Gas Tank (pcb):
  • Glitchee (pcb):
  • Green Bean (2) (pcb): A clone and rework of the ever-popular Tube Screamer.
  • Harbinger TWO (pcb): A Univibe built into a Wah-treadled pedal.
  • Honeydripper (pcb): (out of production) - A clone of the out-of-production Colorsound Diphthonizer.
  • Junk Trunk (pcb):
  • Karate Shop (pcb): (out of production) - A clone of the out-of-production Systech Harmonic Energizer.
  • Laureate (pcb): Madbean take (additional control) on the Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive.
  • Mandroid(2) (pcb): (out of production) - Originally a pitch-shifter project by Dean Hazelwanter hosted at GGG. Popularized by Death-by-Audio's "Robot" pedal.
  • MeatQlaw (pcb): Colorsound Power Boost noted for huge gain increase and good for feeding into overdrives or tube amps.
  • Mysterioso (pcb): A clone of the Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive.
  • Naughty Fish (pcb): (out of production) - A clone of the out-of-production Mutron V envelope filter pedal.
  • Peacekeeper (pcb): (out of production) - An original JFET-based distortion from Madbean Pedals.
  • RangeMaster (pcb): (out of production) - A clone of the out-of-production Dallas Arbiter RangeMaster in a pedal housing.
  • Rough Cut (pcb): An amalgamation of the variations/mods of the Diamond Compressor for guitar.
  • Rustbucket (pcb): (discontinued) - A clone of the out-of-production Electro Harmonix Attack Decay pedal.
  • Sharkfin (pcb): (out of production) - A clone of the out-of-production Maestro Filter Sample and Hold pedal.
  • Tone Virus (pcb): It is part suboctave generator, oscillator, monophonic synthesizer, harmonizer and all-around noise maker.
  • Total Recall (pcb): A clone of a vintage Electro Harmonix Memory Man delay in a smaller form-factor.
  • Weener Wah (pcb): A wah-wah based on the Clyde McCoy, using older-style axial electrolytic capacitors for a vintage sound.

Maxon

(Production Pedals)

  • CP-101: Compressor.
  • DS-830: Distortion Master.
  • OD-9: This is the original Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer w/ true bypass.

Morpheus

(Production Pedals)

  • Droptune (out of production): needs the 1.2 software update - we have the update, we just need to load it into the pedal.

Music PCB

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

OL Circuits

(Kit pedals)

  • Dr. Watt (kit): Emulator of the distortion and tone stack of the HiWatt DR-504.
  • Flipster (kit): Emulator of the distortion and tone stack of the Ampeg Portaflex.
  • Orange Peel (kit): Emulator of the distortion and tone stack of the Orange OR-120.
  • Slow Century (kit): Emulator of the distortion and tone stack of the Soldano Lead Overdrive 100.
  • Tube Cricket (kit): Beavis Audio Research's 1-watt tube amp made real.

Parasit Studios

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • 0415 Guitar Synth (2) (pcb): Transforms instrument signal into a square wave; two octaves up can be mixed with two octaves down.
  • The Corruptor (pcb): A CMOS-based ring modulator and a glitchy octave up fuzz.
  • Sentient Machine (pcb): An LFO-modulated resonant lowpass filter with two voice settings: a wah sound, and a vowel sound. Very phaser-ish.
  • The Sidescroller (pcb): A video-game'ish fuzz that does octave down, octave up and pulse width modulation.
  • Sonic Reducer (pcb): A crude analog-to-digital converter to produce bitcrushing sounds.
  • Theremin Fuzz (2) (pcb): Produces a sound similar to a real theremin, but controlled with the input from your instrument.
  • The Xor'cist (3) (pcb): A glitchy and gated fuzz and a ringmodulator with a squarewave modulation feature.

PCB Guitar Mania

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Death By Fuzz I (pcb): Fuzz pedal based on Death by Audio Fuzz War, ver 1, with 7 transistors.
  • Hyperion Fuzz (pcb): Fuzz pedal worked up by PCB Guitar Mania to try and clone the Boss FZ-2.
  • Soldado Preamp (pcb): A two-knob pedal build with the sound of a Soldano Super Lead Overdrive 100 (SLO-100).

PedalPalFX

(Production Pedals)

  • Pal 800 JCM Emulator: (out of production) - Marshall JCM-800 preamp emulator (Distortion).

Pedal PCB

(Built-from-PCB pedals)

  • Backfeeder (pcb): Clone of the Boss DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion. Gonna try to put it into a Wah to sweep the feedback effect.
  • Chaos Machine (pcb): Remake of the no-longer-available Earthquater Devices Interstellar Orbiter.
  • Closed Circuit Booster Limiter (pcb): We need a limiter. We have compression, yes but no limiter.
  • Parasite Wah (2) (pcb): Clone of the no-longer-available Tycho Brahe Parapedal Wah-wah.
  • Sorcerer (2) (pcb): Clone of the impossible-to-get Wizard distortion from Castledine.
  • TearJerker Wah (pcb): Multiple setting-capable for adjusting to desired wah effect.
  • UniCab (pcb): Emulation of multiple speaker cabinets. This will be interesting.

Peterson

(Production Pedals)

  • StroboStomp II: (out of production) - This is a "simulated strobe" instrument tuner with additional guitar and bass sweetenings.

ProCo

(Production Pedals)

  • Fat Rat: Same as the Rat pedal, but also has switches for "Mosfet" and "Fat" which change the diodes used to clip the signal.
  • Rat II: Currently, a standard Rat II distortion pedal. We have modification plans for this.
  • Whiteface Rat: (out of production) - Reissue of the 1985 "whiteface" Rat that had an unusual black-on-white faceplate label. 100% stock.
  • You Dirty Rat: Our plan is to actually use the USA-made guts of this to modify and create a "sleeper" Rat II pedal.

Retro-Channel

(Production Pedals)

Rullywow

(Built-from-PCB Pedals)

  • Arcadiator (pcb): (discontinued) - Design from Parasit Studio first made into PCB by Rullywow. No longer made by Rullywow. Parasit Studio originally designed this and now makes the PCBs.
  • Canned Yam (pcb): Bass Preamp based on Yamaha's NE-1 Nathan East preamp.
  • Serpent Boost (pcb): Recreation of Catalinbread Naga Viper.
  • Superjudge (pcb): We wonder if the name from this was inspired by the band Monster Magnet.

Skreddy Pedals

(Production Pedals)

  • P19: Pink Floyd "The Wall"-tuned Big Muff.
  • Pig Mine: (out of production) - Tight and aggressive fuzz/distortion.
  • Zero: (out of production) - Sounds like a cranked up, distorted, high-gain amp.

Subdecay

(Production Pedals)

  • Variac: (out of production) - Pre- AND Power Amp Tube distortion emulation pedal.

Throbak

(Production Pedals)

Zoom

(Production Pedals)

  • G2: This thing is actually a pretty lame multi-effect that should probably be played alone by someone with an electric guitar while practicing. Nothing about this pedal is wonderful, and we'll not be renting it out, unless by special request because you've convinced us it has some kind of super-secret tone sauce that none of the rest of the world (or we) are aware of.

Miscellaneous

Power Adapters

Pedals to be fixed

  • ISP Decimator - needs factory fix
  • Thermionic-Modified Rotovibe (True Bypass + altered LEDs)

Pedals to (perhaps) be obtained

Boss

  • DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion
  • MO-2 Multi Overtone
  • PS-6 Harmonist
  • RE-20 Space Echo

BYOC

  • 5-Knob Compressor

Catalinbread

  • Sabbra Cadabra

Digitech

  • Dirty Robot (synth)
  • Freqout (auto-feedback)
  • Whammy

Dunlop

  • DVP-1 Volume Pedal
  • 105Q Crybaby Bass Wah

Electro-Harmonix

  • EHX-Tortion
  • Freeze
  • Frequency Analyzer
  • Iron Lung
  • LPB-1
  • Micro-Synth
  • Pitchfork
  • RTG
  • Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai
  • Stereo Talking Machine
  • V256
  • Voice Box
Electro-Harmonix tube pedals
  • Tube Zipper

Ibanez

  • LF7 Lo Fi Filter

Maxon

  • PH-350 Rotary Phaser

MXR

  • M-103 Blue Box
  • M-75 Super Badass Distortion
  • M-135 Smart Gate
  • M-195 Noise Clamp
  • M-181 Blowtorch Bass Distortion
  • M-288 Bass Octave Deluxe
  • M-81 Bass Preamp
  • Iso-Brick power supply

Satellite Amps

  • Golden Harem
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