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The Fender Stories Collection pays tribute to legendary musicians, their beloved modified Fender electric guitars and the extraordinary music they created together. 

Revered for his tasty rhythms and fiery leads, Mike Campbell is responsible for many of the iconic hooks from the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers catalog. For decades now his faithful Fender guitars have been at the heart of his trusted formula for award-winning tone.

Campbell bought what became known as the “Red Dog” from a former guitar student in Florida, complete with Bigsby tremolo and a powerful onboard boost, known as the “Destruct” circuit. Featured on the Damn the Torpedoes track “Refugee,” Mike’s iconic 1972 Red Dog Telecaster® fabricated the memorable tune and can be seen in the accompanying music video.”

The Stories Collection Mike Campbell Red Dog Telecaster® features an Heirloom™ nitrocellulose lacquer “Red Dog Red” finish, 1-piece maple neck with 7.25” radius fingerboard and 21 vintage-style frets as well as an onboard “Destruct” boost circuit. The custom Mike Campbell Red Dog pickup set features two vintage-style humbuckers and a single-coil telecaster bridge pickup, Bigsby B5F tremolo and a custom Red Dog neck plate. Custom accessories include a vintage-style case, strap, picks and certificate of authenticity.

Unique, versatile and utterly original, The Mike Campbell Red Dog Telecaster pays tribute to a veteran Heartbreaker with a serious knack for writing extraordinary songs and delivering catchy, captivating and magnificent guitar parts.

The Edison preamp is an all tube, EF86 powered preamp pedal capable of providing 20-25db of clean gain using a standard 9v power supply.

The Edison has long been favored for its warm, signature tone and can be found of hundreds of pedal boards.

Bass players use it as a front end to get a punchy, rounded tone at the beginning of their signal chain.

Guitar players use it to overdrive their amps and other drive pedals, and to warm up their digital modeling rigs.

Home recording enthusiast use it before their recording interface to get a mix-ready signal.

A boost mode switch below the volume control allows for an edgier, louder tone. ​

All machining, powder coating, assembly, wiring and design are done locally, and each batch is unique and limited in quantity.

Made in collaboration with Analog Man himself, Brothers AM is a tribute to the legendary King of Tone overdrive.

It takes that coveted circuit, gives you advanced control, and tosses in a couple exciting bonuses – but it doesn’t mess with what made it so good in the first place.

A stack of sunny saturation that always manages to sound just right. Analog Man’s level of hand-made care has been unmatched and unchanged since the 90’s. There’s no replicating it – each King of Tone is made entirely by hand with near-unobtainable parts.

So instead of trying to clone it, Brothers AM goes further. We worked closely with Analog Man to create an expanded counterpart that lets you enjoy the coveted circuit in a new way.

Change modes on the fly

Access previously hidden parameters

Explore a bonus treble booster circuit

Control everything externally (expression, MIDI, CV)

All entirely preset savable.

Brothers AM is our most intuitive pedal.

At its heart are two identical, multi-mode gain channels for you to stack, combine, and switch. Choose between boost, overdrive, or distortion, set the gain, set the tone. Done.

In every mode, and every setting, it just sounds good.

At last, an amp for the tone purist-a no frills single channel tone machine! Classic rock tones, incredible chime and dynamics, complete overdrive control from your guitar's volume knob. 2 El 34s, 35 watts, loads of gain and crunch-but we didn't stop there. We added a master volume and effects loop-bypassable for the purist, or in circuit for fat lead tones at low volumes without a power soak, plus the ability to add delay, reverb, etc. to the mix!

Any decent guitar player in this day and age would have heard of the mythical and mysterious Train Wreck amps designed by the late tube amp guru, Ken Fischer. Played by the likes of Warren Haynes, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Mark Knopfler and Billy Gibbons, Trainwreck amps command a certain legendary status in the history of boutique tube amps.

Liverpool Express is my take on capturing the sparkling, touch sensitive rich tones of the Express and the Liverpool amps into one pedal format. The design features JFET's which are excellent for emulating vaccum tubes at a much lower voltage. Controls are as you would find on the original amps and are very interactive. In addition, there are two toggle switches to provide a range of tones.

V - Volume, G- Gain, P - Presence, B - Bass, M - Mid, T - Treb

Br - Bright Cap toggle, Mb - Mid boost toggle

The "Br" switch essentially adds or remove the Bright cap. Just like an actual amp, the difference can be heard on the lower to medium settings of Gain. With the cap in, the tone is your unmistakable harmonically rich touch sensitive Trainwreck tone. With the cap out, it gives you a fuller range of lower gain crunch great for rythms.

The "Mb" switch introduces a Mid boost which is great for leads as well as chunky rythms.

Since this is a preamp unit, it can either be used on a pedal board in signal chain as a drive, or you can run it directly into the effects loop of your favourite amp. Another way to use it is to run it directly into your DAW followed by speaker IR's for recording. Even though it has enough gain on top, you can drive it even harder by using an OD in front, as you would with an actual tube amp.This pedal runs on standard 9V center negative DC supplies. It can also be run anywhere from 9-18V for more headroom.