Commercial Pedals

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Here is a list of the commercial effects available for rent from Thermionic Studios. Every pedal listed here is one that we have in inventory 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 some notes to point out where applicable, that a particular pedal might have suffered an in-house modification.

  • (modified): We purchased this pedal and have purchased and have applied, or are applying, a modification that we feel benefits the pedal.

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 this pedal is made anymore. It's out of production, and the company that manufactured it intends no replacement. This pedal has reached "end-of-life". This happens when the company decides to stop making the pedal completely. It could happen for a number of reasons. The main reasons tend to be:

  • The pedal company is now out-of-business,
  • The pedal didn't sell well when first released,
  • The parts to make the pedal are no longer available
  • The pedal was only ever intended to be part of a limited run,
  • Because the larger company shut down their pedals division.

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 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 or other used-equipment sites like Reverb.com. In most cases, clones are not available, and when another such pedals 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.


AMT Electronics

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

Bogner

  • Ecstasy: There are two versions. This is the blue. This is a multi-option overdrive, patterned after the Ecstasy tube amp, also made by Bogner.

Boss/Roland

  • 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.
  • DF-2: (out of production) - "Super Distortion and Feedbacker" Pre-DiMarzio lawsuit. Distortion with tunable feedback activated by holding down pedal.
  • 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.
  • HM-2: (out of production) "Heavy Metal" (older Made-in-Japan version) Legendary pedal, and yet not as great as everyone currently thinks.
  • ML-2: "Metal Core" Grown out of the complaints of the Metal Zone, this is a smoother "Metal" distortion pedal.
  • NS-2: (out of production) "Noise Suppressor" Line noise / interference suppression pedal with both "reduction" and "mute" modes.
  • OC-2 (2): (out of production) "Octave" effect with dry signal, one octave down, and two octaves down.
  • OS-2: (out of production) "Overdrive/Distortion" blends the "growl" of overdrive with the "sizzle" of distortion. Interesting for different sonic textures.
  • PS-6: (out of production) - "Harmonist" multi-tonal pitch shifter and harmonizer with additional "hold down" feature for pitch swings.
  • RC-2: (discontinued) - "Loop Station" - build loops for practice or rehearsal. Considered "more immediate" than RC-3, no hiccups on drum tracks.
  • RE-20: (out of production) - "Space Echo" a dual pedal with the features of the old analog Roland RE-201 Space Echo. Includes both repeats and reverb.
  • TU-3 (2): "Chromatic Tuner" An LED/visual pedal based tuner with 'centered' or 'strobe' tuning modes for your instrument.
  • XT-2: (out of production) - "Xtortion" a distortion with controls as if paired with a fixed wah filter.

Catalinbread

  • 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

  • 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.

Digitech/DOD

  • 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!
  • Freqout: Digitech developed an anti-feedback circuit for some of their gear. So they had the brilliant idea to invert the function of this circuit into a "more feedback" pedal. Cool enough we're getting more than one.
  • 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.
  • XP-300 Space Station: (out of production) - A treadle combined with multiple effects including synth, swell, and arpeggiation.

Dunlop/MXR

Dunlop

Dunlop ("Jim Dunlop") is probably best known for the Crybaby Wah-wah pedal, and owning the MXR and Way Huge brands. It was Jim Dunlop who saved the wah-wah pedal from the precipice of oblivion; purchasing the business and rights it from Whirlpool Manufacturing in the mid-1980s. Through his company, he kept the legacy and the effect going. Dunlop is also known for reissuing the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face and a version of the Roger Mayer-developed Jimi Hendrix Octavio effect. Dunlop also released a number of odd and one-off pedals (some we have!), but build quality has always been top notch.

  • 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.
  • JHF1 Hendrix Fuzz: Jimi Hendrix-tuned silicon fuzz face
  • JH-OC1 Octavio: (discontinued) - Clone of the Roger Mayer/TycoBrahe "block of cheese" octave fuzz.
  • TVP-1 Tremolo: (out of production) - Treadle-controlled and selectable tremolo, boost, or volume swell 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.

  • 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

  • Swollen Pickle: Way Huge take on a Muff-style fuzz with maximum tone alteration capabilities.
  • Atreides: Jeorge Tripps took the 1970s EHX EH1600 mini-synth (Van Halen, "One Foot Out the Door") schematic and made a pedal out of it.

Electro-Harmonix

  • 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.
  • Small Stone: XO Version of the EH4800 (small die-cast box) Small Stone. Also known for use in ground loop testing instrument cables.
  • 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 (4): 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.
  • Tube Zipper: (out of production) - Combination tube-driven envelope filter and distortion pedal.
  • Wiggler: (out of production) - Four different styles of vibrato (Leslie, Hammond, Vox, Wurlitzer) and vacuum tube-generated amplitude-modulation tremolo.

Ibanez

  • NU Tube Screamer: A Tube Screamer using the new Korg "NuTube" fluorescent 6P1 vacuum tube amplification unit instead of the classic JRC4558 opamp.

Korg

Maxon

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

Morpheus

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

Nobels

  • ODR-1: The "sleeper" overdrive. Loved by Nashville artists. Has also been equated with the Soundgarden sound.

PedalPalFX

  • JCM Emulator Pal 800: (out of production) - Marshall JCM-800 preamp emulator (Distortion).
  • Plexi Emulator Pal 959 v2: Marshall JMP-1959 (Super Lead) preamp emulator (Distortion).

Peterson

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

ProCo

  • 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.
  • White Rat: An all-white Rat pedal from a Japanese retailer called "Ikebe". We thought the reverse of black-on-white for a Rat it would be fun.
  • 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

Skreddy 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

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

Throbak

Zoom

  • 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 Pedals

  • Fart Pedal (full pedal): We joined the Kickstarter to help bring the Fart Pedal to life. While this is a fun and practical joke style pedal, it's also a small-run production pedal. You can find demos on YouTube.
  • Rooms (full pedal): From Death by Audio, we wanted to get one for a long time because this is such a uniquely cool effect, despite being a digital effect.
  • SLO Supercharger (full pedal): By Soldano Amplification, this is the pedal version of the preamp in the 100-watt Soldano SLO 100. Firebreather!
  • Stack in a Box (full pedal): Washburn distortion pedal. Stack-in-a-box is the first recorded pedal to cascade multiple gain stages, like an amp, for a more pleasing distortion tone.
  • Tube Drive Rock 301 (full pedal): Guessing this is a 1990s (because of the "edgey" knob names) tube overdrive pedal from Tube Works. Kinda groovy because it's triangle shaped. Need to get some good sounds outta this before anyone will likely want to rent it. This is a physically heavy pedal, so it probably drives the internal tube at full voltage.
  • Westbury W20 (full pedal): "The Tube". A thrift-shop find, we thought this pedal would be rarer than it is. Google search shows that RG Keen (Geofex) traced it a while back. The PCB inside has Guyatone printed on it. Appears to be exactly the same pedal as the The Guyatone TD-1. Seems this pedal might not be all that rare after all...

Other Pedal Stuff

Power Adapters

Pedals to be fixed

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