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This amazing pedal is designed and built by handmade and using the best quality components and using the plug-in (not SMD) components. The KING SPARK Overdrive provides a versatile range of overdrive tones that enhance the natural sound of your guitar and amp setup.

The Demonfx Overdrive provides a versatile range of overdrive tones that enhance the natural sound of your guitar and amp setup. With three different clipping options and ingeniously configured Bass and Treble controls, this pedal offers players a tone of options to make the most of their playing and recording experience.

The LGO is a smaller and watered down version of it's big brother the FlashDrive, it's designed for Low Gain Overdrive. it can go from a clean, mid colored boost, to a mild overdrive, or push an amp into a gritty crank. Check out the sound clips.

First came out in 2010, the FlashDrive is a very versatile and highly dynamic overdrive.
It features controls for volume, drive, treble and bass, the FD can take you from clean through dirty grit and up to thick creamy overdrive. Check out the sound clips.

The Thneed is a highly dynamic and customizable drive pedal with a signature smooth and bright tone that cuts through the mix.

Despite its appearance, The Thneed is a no-nonsense take on the legendary transparent overdrive pedal (that shares its name with a mythical creature) but does away with frivolities like a troublesome charge pump and multiple op amp stages, and instead opts for a more reliable design that provides the same signature sound and tone of its influence.

The Thneed also adds benefits and options like four pairs of selectable clipping diodes for a wide range of drive sounds, a face-forward bass toggle, internally selectable gain modes, and both True Bypass and Buffered Bypass options, to provide sound options and alternatives that can satisfy even the most finicky of guitar chain connoisseurs.

To help offset some of the ecological damage done by the likes of the Onceler family, you have the option of donating a few extra dollars to a tree planting organization along with the purchase of a Thneed. All proceeds will go directly to Tree Canada, which helps to grow and sustain urban canopies in Canada, especially important given our global ecological disasters and wildfires.

Custom Tones is very excited to announce the release of the ETHOS 60’s Harmonic Bias Trem, (60’s HBT). The 60’s HBT design is based on Fender’s® 1960’s Brown Panel five triode stage Harmonic Tremolo Amplifier series 6G5-A, 6G14, 6G4-A, and 6G8, . The 60’s HBT creates Harmonic and Amplitude modulation by using Bias Shifting of Simulated Analog 12AX7 triode stages recreating that 60’s rich pulsating tone. The 60’s HBT is incredibly practical for the working musician where on-the-fly foot switching is available for FAST / SLOW Speed and HARMONIC / AMPLITUDE Mode modulation selection. Additionally, the 60’s HBT provides a volume trim (VTRIM) and EQ control (TONE) that allows the artist to balance the Tremolo signal against the Bypass signal.

This is the result of a love for the way a vintage Space Echo sounds when the PreAmp pushes an amplifier right to the brink of overdrive. Having owned many Space Echos, constantly scrambling to repair the fragile and now very valuable units over the years on tour became a bit of an issue, yet I wasn't ready to sacrifice the harmonically rich and glassy tone that the PreAmp section provided. There was always something that I found unique about the feel and tonal characteristics of the RE-150 due in part to its JFET based design, differing from the later 201 and 301 OpAmp based PreAmp sections. Coming up short in my pursuit of this sound in a more reliable and compact form, I decided to pay homage to the original design using now scarce NOS JFET transistors found in the original unit. To take things a bit further, a switchable clean boost was added to the circuit to drive the PreAmp harder, getting more gain and volume from the pedal. Simply use the PreAmp as an always-on effect to enhance just about every signal you give to it or engage it as a boost that seemingly highlights only the absolute best qualities in your amplifier. However you decide to use it, the gorgeous, dynamic sound that this PreAmp produces is really something special.

Unlock the magic of the 1960s Klemt Echolette Tape Echo! The Klemt Echolette Tape Echo Machine has long remained in the shadows of its more famous counterparts, but those in the know appreciate this golden box for its unique sound, particularly its mighty preamp.

If you've ever experienced the tube-driven Echolette preamp, you'll be familiar with its ability to deliver a mesmerizing glassy volume boost and a jaw-dropping, chewy fuzz-like overdrive.

One of the standout features of these preamps is their distinctive tone control, which interacts with the preamp's gain structure and beautifully complements any amplifier it touches.

The tone control uniquely cuts bass below 12 o'clock or treble above 12 o'clock, with a flat frequency response at noon.

In designing the Echolette NG-51, Mile End Effects dedicated an insane amount of time testing JFET transistors, striving to replicate the harmonic response of the old Telefunken ECC83-driven machine.

Their efforts paid off, as they managed to capture that unmistakable sound by carefully selecting JFETs that operate in a precise range and feeding them a higher internal voltage than a standard 9V power supply can provide.

This ingenious design offers an absurd volume boost and headroom akin to a tube running at high plate voltage!

Additionally, a toggle on the top of the pedal allows you to switch to the lower headroom 9V internal voltage if desired.

The Echolette NG-51 Preamp will be part of Mile End Effects' lineup for as long as they can source these hard-to-find transistors.

Mile End Effects Echolette NG-51 Preamp Pedal features: • Pays homage to the beloved Klemt Echolette Tape Echo machine.

• Emulates the Echolette’s mesmerizing glassy volume boost and monstrous chewy fuzz-like overdrive.

• Unique tone control interacts harmoniously with the preamp's gain structure.

• Switchable internal voltage for absurd volume boost and headroom.

• Power: 9V DC.

• Current Draw: 100mA.

• Dimensions: 4.7" x 3.7" x 1.18".