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Classic Tonebender tones with all the bells and whistles your grandpa's Tonebender was missing

NOS Germanium Tonebender MKIII goodness!

Classic PNP Germanium Tonebender goodness with some modern features that push this legendary circuit over the top! At the core of the Fuzz MKIII lies three NOS Motorola PNP Germanium transistors ready to push your signal path into Tonebender oblivion. The original units boast one combination bass and treble control. The Fuzz MKIII has separate Treble and Bass controls that allow you to dial in all of those in-between tones that the original lacks. In addition to that the Line control interacts with the Dirt control to help further sculpt you Fuzz sound. There is also a 6 position rotary switch that allows the player to swap out different capacitors to tighten up the fuzz for a more overdriven like characteristic or a totally loose low end fuzz tone on the opposite end of the spectrum and everything in-between. Although the MKIII is a positive ground circuit it has a voltage inverter incorporated in the design to allow the pedal to work with daisy chain style power supplies. The Fuzz MKIII operates on an industry standard 2.1mm center negative power supply or a high quality alkaline battery. All pedals are covered by a one year warranty on parts and labor and are hand built right here in the U.S. If you should happen to have any other questions about the Fuzz MKIII please feel free to contact us via the contact form on the Home page of the site.

A DIY mod for the MT-2, designed to emulate the Bogner Uberschall amplifier.

60’S AMERICAN AMP TONE! Reminiscent of the mid 60′s Blackface Fender era. Specifically a Blackface Super on 6. This sought-after pedal re-creates the tone of a blackface-era Fender amplifier, namely a Super on 6! The Lovepedal Super Six is perfect for buffering, boosting, or vintage-ing your tone. Add soft, vintage compression or a vintage tone stack to your guitar rig. With the new added controls for Master Volume, Drive, Bass and Treble, we have morphed and channeled the elusive Stevie tone into our old favorite.. I give you the Super “Stevie Mod” Six! Between the full range controls, the Lovepedal Super Six also acts as a vintage tone stack that is voiced like a blackface-era Fender. When you’re looking to channel the 60’s American amp tone, the Lovepedal Super Six is the ticket… FEATURES: - Classic, touch sensitive, tones.. - True Bypass switching, making sure your signal is preserved when the effect is off - +9VDC / +22VDC, center negative adapter or 9V battery / Current draw 18mA Designed and manufactured by a “very smart group of people” along side musicians to create the perfect balance of touch, tone, feel, reliability and grace. Controls: LEVEL – Master overall volume at the output

DRIVE – Smooth, feedback loop style clipping

Bass – Active / Pre clipping section / Bass bump

Treble – Tone damp / Passive / Post clipping

CRANKED 50′s TWEED DELUXE TONE! 5E3 Deluxe Masterpiece is complete. This unit faithfully recreates the Tweed 5E3 Deluxe in SPADES!!

FEATURES:

• Classic, touch sensitive, tones..

• True Bypass switching, making sure your signal is preserved when the effect is off

• +9VDC / +22VDC, center negative adapter or 9V battery / Current draw 6mA

Designed and manufactured by a “very smart group of people” along side musicians to create the perfect balance of touch, tone, feel, reliability and grace.

Controls:

LEVEL – Master overall volume at the output

GAIN/BIAS - Selects the amount of overdrive and tapers EQ as drive goes up!

TOGGLE - 3 way Headroom switch. Middle position is a lift and provides maximum headroom

All Knobs on Kill Inspired by two cult Japanese Buzzboxes…the result is the abomination aptly titled “Deadwoods”.

There is nothing less than square-wave signal obliteration in sight. But that is just half of its peak obnoxiousness. Send it into an overdriven base tone for total obnoxious filth.

Roll back your guitars volume (with Deadwoods 2 EQ knobs maxed) for more of a “HM2” Vibe.

Deadwoods active two band EQ section has been tuned to allow a massive range of frequency cut and boost.

Be warned, your speaker and cabinets, as well as nearby small animals and children may be harmed.

The DS-1/Pro mod is the same changes as the Super mod but it pulls out the stock inline chip, and replaces it with a JRC op-amp chip. This chip really improves the tone, giving it more warmth, clarity, and headroom. It's still a DS-1: more distortion, crunchier, and more low end than a tube screamer, and after the mod it sounds awesome even with the DIST knob down all the way. It is a very useful pedal with the DIST knob down for people who don't want too much distortion, or have an amp that is already distorting. It does not have the midrange hump of a tube screamer, it actually has a scooped midrange for more of a modern sound. Most people will use them at high DIST settings, but they sound awesome at low DIST settings too. Play gently and get a clear, clean tone, play harder and the crunch and distortion comes out clear and full!

The PRO mod is only available on new style Made in Taiwan DS-1 pedals which have the power jack attached to the circuit board like the pedal on the left. The chips we use will not fit in the older Japanese or 1st issue Taiwan DS-1 pedals (on the right in the picture). The older version's chips are good sounding anyway, so they sound great with just our SUPER mod. If you have a newer DS-1, or are buying a new one from us, the PRO mod is what we recommend. We cannot mod the 2017 and newer pedals which have the power jack on the edge as on the right pedal and are usually made in Malaysia.

Put a pro-level compressor beneath your foot!

The Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter Pedal was specially developed to incorporate the same features and sonic clarity found in high-quality professional studio compressors. To achieve this Carl Martin incorporates a variable threshold, compression ratio, and attack/release controls and of course, a gain level.

General Guidelines on the use of the Compressor/Limiter:

Threshold: Working anti clockwise, determines how much of the signal will be compressed. This is also dependent on how much signal is fed from the instrument.

Comp: Working clockwise, determines how much compression is applied to the signal allowed by the threshold setting.

Resp: Working clockwise, determines the attack/release times, going from slow to fast. In general, if you want to hear the compressor working with a crisp attack you should use slow times. If you require silent limiting, you should use fast times.

Gain: Working clockwise, sets the overall gain.

Busy: Indicates the amount of compression being applied, even in bypass mode. The brighter it gets, the more compression is being applied.

The Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter Pedal is ruggedly built by hand in Denmark.

Put a pro-level compressor beneath your foot!

The Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter Pedal was specially developed to incorporate the same features and sonic clarity found in high-quality professional studio compressors. To achieve this Carl Martin incorporates a variable threshold, compression ratio, and attack/release controls and of course, a gain level.

General Guidelines on the use of the Compressor/Limiter:

Threshold: Working anti clockwise, determines how much of the signal will be compressed. This is also dependent on how much signal is fed from the instrument.

Comp: Working clockwise, determines how much compression is applied to the signal allowed by the threshold setting.

Resp: Working clockwise, determines the attack/release times, going from slow to fast. In general, if you want to hear the compressor working with a crisp attack you should use slow times. If you require silent limiting, you should use fast times.

Gain: Working clockwise, sets the overall gain.

Busy: Indicates the amount of compression being applied, even in bypass mode. The brighter it gets, the more compression is being applied.

The Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter Pedal is ruggedly built by hand in Denmark.

While chatting over a…um ‘coffee’ one day a while back, guitar ace Greg Howe asked Carl whether he could develop a pedal that would re-create his signature sound. A pedal that would combine Greg’s unique High Gain and Crunch tones, but allow him to manipulate these sounds and layer them for even more guitar fun. A little unorthodox yes, but Carl was never one to back down from a challenge, nor one to think inside the box.

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The result is the Greg Howe Signature Lick Box, and not only does it fulfill Greg’s requirements, but it adds even more great tones to Greg’s palette!

So what is this crazy pedal? Well, at first glance it looks like many other Carl Martin pedals…there is a High Gain channel which has loads of bottom end and nice crisp highs, a very dynamic Crunch channel which emphasises the mids with very little compression, and of course that famous 12db Boost channel that we are all so familiar with.

So that’s it? Ok, so the High Gain and Crunch channels were voiced to Greg’s spec’s, but it’s still just a pedal based on Greg Howe’s own signature tones? Nope….underneath the simple cosmetics is a rethinking of how these channels work together. Yes, you can use either the High Gain or Crunch channels on their own (and they are awesome!), and you can adjust the tone for each with it’s dedicated Tone control, and yes, you can also add up to 12 db of crystal clean Boost to either of those channels….but you can also turn on both gain channels together! By placing the High Gain first in the chain, you allow the Crunch voicing to overrule the High Gain while adding a few db to your volume. You lose some of the lows and highs, but this results in a focused and controlled mid-range that cuts through the mix. Of course you can add up to 12 db of clean Boost as well for meatier leads dripping with tone and sustain!

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The Greg Howe Lick Box features the usual cast metal casing, the high quality switches with ‘on’ indicating LED’s, and the new Carl Martin DC/DC converter circuitry. This new power circuit allows you to use a 9V Power Supply while still maintaining the +-12V circuitry that is crucial for component quality and extra headroom above most 9V pedals. Of course we recommend the Carl Martin ProPower Version 2 as the power supply of choice. Power consumption is a surprising 150 mA.

The Storm features a 100% analog signal path that is nearly identical to our EX Tower that has quite literally taken the guitar industry by storm, hence the name. It perfectly captures our signature “Schaffer Sound” voicing and offers three interactive circuits capable of generating a plethora of tones for every guitar configuration and genre of music.

Solodallas Storm Product Page 2019

The Storm features the 100% analog optical limiter+EQ expander+harmonic clipping circuit+boost+line buffer circuit we reverse-engineered from the original Schaffer-Vega Diversity System wireless unit used by Angus Young, David Gilmour, EVH and nearly every legendary guitarist throughout the 70s and 80s. This unique combination of studio effects reproduces the unparalleled string separation, percussive attack, copious harmonics and singing sustain heard on some of the greatest guitar tracks ever recorded!

FEATURES

GAIN knob controls our signature clipping circuit that bumps the crucial low-mid frequencies responsible for giving live instruments punch and making them stand out in the mix (think Angus Young guitar tone). BOOST knob controls a powerful pre-amp capable of delivering a whopping 31db of clean boost. This analog boost is perfect for making lead parts stand out, adding fullness to the signal going into the front end of your amplifier or pushing it into oblivion! LIMITER knob controls Ken Schaffer’s signature Opto-Isolator limiter. This optical analog circuit naturally limits the audio signal going into the pedal's circuitry (unlike the complimentary compander circuit which smooths out amplitude after the signal reaches its peak). Limiting is commonly used by mastering engineers to transparently raise overall level, without the risk of clipping and distortion generally associated with gain increases. Sensitivity of this effect may be fine tuned for different output pickups or to give your instrument an open or percussive attack. SPECIFICATIONS

100% Analog Circuitry Commercial Grade PCB Heavy Duty True Bypass Footswitch Blue LED when effect is engaged Neutrik Jacks Power Requirements: 9-12vDC (-) Power Supply - No battery Enclosure Dimensions: 4.69” D x 2.52” W x 1.57” H Made in USA

"The SVDS Boost is a recreation of one of the first full-frequency boosts ever used on stage."

SoloDallas is proud to announce the SVDS Boost! Originally introduced in 1975 as part of the Schaffer-Vega Diversity System (SVDS) wireless unif, this mini boost pedal originated from a 1/4” headphone jack intended for monitoring purposes. Guitarists and bassists soon discovered they could push their signal through this headphone amplifier into their amps, boosting their signal by up to 30dB to overdrive the preamp.

Legendary guitarists like Angus Young, David Gilmour, Eddie Van Halen, Carlos Santana, and more utilized this technique, forever changing the sound of rock music. The SVDS Boost is a faithful reproduction of this iconic boost, which may very well be the first full-frequency boost ever used on stage.

The Sound Unlike typical clean boosts, the SVDS Boost adds vintage coloration and harmonics that instantly transport you to the golden era of rock. Oour unique "Goalpost" EQ enhances harmonics and the extreme ends of the frequency spectrum, while maintaining the integrity of your mid-range. With up to 30dB of boost, the SVDS unlocks new tonal possibilities, delivering rich harmonics, singing sustain and even controlled feedback.

Pedal Placement The SVDS Boost truly shines when placed after other overdrive, distortion, or fuzz pedals, adding dynamic response and restoring low-end fidelity that can often be lost to mid-boost pedals. Its harmonic richness is perfect for adding a thicker gain stage to existing gain pedals.

Build Quality Precision-built using high-quality components, the SVDS Boost is designed to withstand the rigors of professional touring. Its robust construction ensures years of reliable performance, whether in the studio or on the road.

About SoloDallas Founded in 2013, SoloDallas has become a trusted name among professional musicians. Their flagship product, the Schaffer Replica, is used by over 50 touring professionals and has been featured on numerous hit albums. SoloDallas is dedicated to recreating "long-lost gear relics" for modern musicians, and the SVDS Boost is a testament to their mission.

The explosive sound of rock!

The Crazy Tube Circuits Heatseeker is inspired by Angus Young, capturing the sonic elements that define his legendary tone.

Central to Angus’s signature sound—alongside walls of roaring Marshalls—was one of the first wireless guitar systems: the Schaffer Vega Diversity System.

Its unique combination of a preamp and Dynamic Expansion circuit shaped the sound of rock history!

The Heatseeker faithfully recreates this magic. The preamp boosts your signal, tightens the lows, and enhances the mids, while the Dynamic Expansion circuit improves dynamic response and adds rich harmonics for punchy, mix-cutting tones.

A versatile and dynamic rock machine!

The Heatseeker’s dual design lets you use each side independently or together for ultimate versatility.

The left side delivers Marshall amp tones, while the right side recreates the legendary Schaffer Vega preamp and tone enhancer.

A passive FX loop also allows you to insert pedals between the two sections or use them as standalone effects.

While designed with Angus Young’s tone in mind, the Heatseeker opens the door to countless legendary sounds—from KISS and Peter Frampton to Van Halen!

Three iconic amps in one pedal.

Crazy Tube Circuits captured the sound and feel of three legendary British amps synonymous with rock: the JTM45, the 1959 Super Lead, and the JMP 2203.

A smart switching circuit selects the appropriate gain stages for each amp mode, combining them with a Marshall-style EQ and power amp simulation for thundering tones.

A Wall of Sound toggle switch also expands your soundstage for epic tones!

Crazy Tube Circuits Heatseeker Overdrive features:

• All-analog dual preamp inspired by Angus Young's classic gear.

• Left side: Three Marshall amp tones (JTM45, 1959 Super Lead, JMP 2203).

• Right side: Recreation of the Schaffer Vega Diversity System preamp and tone enhancer.

• Left side controls: Master, Presence, Volume, Bass, Middle, Treble, Wall of Sound switch.

• Right side controls: Enhance, Level.

• Passive FX Loop lets you connect pedals between the two sections or use them separately.

• Power: 9V DC (115mA).

• Dimensions: 4.69" x 3.82" x 2.09".