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Mantra Overdrive
MANTRA OVERDRIVE by BLACKOUT EFFECTORS: equally capable of invoking the sacred sounds of a classically refined overdrive AND summoning wickedly raunchy drive, with more crunch on tap than the “overdrive” moniker usually entails. With such a wide palette of tones and character the MANTRA will feel just as at home at the feet of the stalwart blues crowd as it will the quintessential rock & roll protagonists.
The MANTRA utilizes amp-like circuit architecture, with multiple cascaded MOSFET and JFET gain stages to insure the most natural, touch-sensitive overdrive conditions possible and a seemingly endless range of clean-up with your guitar’s volume knob. We burned a lot of midnight oil to make sure that the MANTRA could get down with vintage-type, low output single coils and hot humbucker pickups alike. From gently fingerpicked melodic phrases to bludgeoning riffs that you’ll want to play over and over and over…
CONTROLS:
BASS |Cut it or crank it. One thing is for sure, you won’t be left wanting.
TREBLE | Crank it up without losing any lowend or drop it down to emphasize those mids. Smooth out your highs or let ‘em sizzle!
GAIN | From vintage tweed-like chime to blazing drive.
VOLUME | Like it loud? We thought you might.
Comprised of all discrete transistors/components and absolutely no diode clipping, the MANTRA is genetically far removed from the run-of-the-mill overdrive fare and the sonic difference is clear. Like all Blackout pedals, these gems are handmade (with precision & balls!) at our shop in Asheville, NC, with high-quality components and rock solid construction throughout.
Chassis: Beautiful glossy transparent gold finish with a blood red silk screen graphic. The transparent gold allows a lot of the chassis’ natural surface variations to come through, providing a finish with real depth for a three dimensional look.
The Twosome is a meaty fuzz sandwich made up of the Musket Fuzz pedal and the deluxe version of the Fix’d Fuzz pedal. Both circuits run independently in an A/B configuration allowing you to dial in your perfect fuzz or overdrive tone on each and then switch back and forth between them. You won’t find more dirt under one roof – unless you live in a mud hut.
There’s a lot more to explain, so read the manual:
Blackout Effectors, handmade audio effect pedals forged in the belly of mountains. Designed by
us, for us ... but available to you.
Twosome Dual Fuzz
Musictoyz.com Price $285
Fix'd Fuzz
The FIX’D FUZZ V2 is the hydra-headed dragon of handmade fuzz boxes/boosts/overdrives. Replete with two polar-opposite fuzz tones, a full-bodied boost through light overdrive and a (wide) tone sculpting stage. It delivers BIG diversity in sound - all in a SMALL footprint package designed specifically for the cramped pedalboard. All 4 stages of the circuit are bypassable via their respective toggles, meaning you can add/remove from the stack as your black heart desires.
'Ants'
Musictoyz.com Price $165
'Poppies'
Musictoyz.com Price $165
Musket Fuzz
The logical progression from then to now, the MUSKET is based on one of the best selling fuzz circuits of all time - taken three giant muffy steps further. With tasteful adjustment of the PRE, FUZZ, FOCUS, MIDS, TONE & VOLUME controls, the MUSKET traverses the decades, the continents and the many iterations of the classic 4-stage fuzz circuit and beyond.
If you need fuzz and you need it to be massive…
Musket Fuzz
Musictoyz.com Price $165
Whetstone Analog Phaser
The vintage sound of an analog OTA-based phaser melded with contemporary parameters out the wazoo. From classic and not-so-classic, subtle and over-the-top phase tones to seasick pitch vibrato, ringmod, glitchy octave effects, to outright strange phased/autowah/tremolo-like hybrid sounds.