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Blackstar - with Girth
The Blackstar with Girth is a total redesign of our high gain overdrive. While still the high gain little brother of the Liquid Sunshine in spirit, the design has been drastically changed for improved dynamics and less noise. Controls are tailored for use with many different guitars and amplifiers.
Most importantly, the Blackstar will retain the sonic characteristics of individual guitars and pickups. This has been my main complaint with the higher gain pedals that I have owned. No matter what guitar I plugged in there was very little difference in sound. Dynamics and pick attack will not get lost with this pedal.
So you have your usual overdrive controls, Drive, Tone, Level, but what does that OTHER knob do? The Girth knob makes everything sound BIGGER. It adds some low end oomph, and a little gain on the top end.
The Blackstar is hand made in Newberg, Oregon.
Die-cast metal enclosures for durability
3PDT switches for true bypass switching
Blue LED indicator
Controls- Drive Girth Tone Volume
Three year warranty
All JFET design
Musictoyz.com Price $149
Liquid Sunshine - Class A Overdrive
An all JFET based overdrive for natural breakup and huge available volume boost.
The Liquid Sunshine will give your amp a good kick in the ass. Equally useful as a clean boost, treble booster, and overdrive. Responds well to boosters, and loves pushing your other dirt boxes too.
What is the Liquid Sunshine?
The Liquid Sunshine is a JFET based overdrive with graceful breakup and pick attack, and will not cover up the the natural sound of your guitar and amplifier.
With two drive knobs, the Liquid Sunshine allows you to control the character of the overdrive rather than simply controlling overall gain. The drive knobs control two separate gain stages, each with their own characteristics. The top drive knob pushes the overall frequency range, while the bottom drive knob accentuates the middle and high frequencies. Both are very interactive, and allow the Liquid sunshine to perform not only as an overdrive, but a clean boost or treble booster as well.
Why doesn't the Liquid Sunshine have a "tone" knob?
Unlike a lot of other overdrives that use diodes to clip an amplified signal, the JFET circuitry produces no "sharp edges" or hard clipping. Many tone knobs on overdrives have a very narrow band of useful settings.
Instead, the bottom drive knob on the Liquid Sunshine controls gain and also alters the frequency response, with many useful settings over a wide range.
The Liquid Sunshine now has two internal controls for bass, and treble boost.
The Liquid Sunshine is hand made in Newberg, Oregon.
Die-cast metal enclosures for durability
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Red LED indicator
Three-year limited warranty
Musictoyz.com Price $149
Noise Box - Harmonic Frequency Generator
A chaotic concoction... Somewhere in between a chaotic octave generator, guitar synth, and a broken robot stuck in an angry bee hive.
The Noisebox was inspired by additive synthesizers. This pedal needs to be heard to be truly understood, but I'll try to explain it anyway.
The Noise Box is an envelope following harmonic frequency generator. (Confused yet???) Frequencies generated are harmonically related to the input, and controlled by the Frequency knob, the Sense knob, and the chaos knob.
The Frequency knob sets the resting point of the frequency generator.
The Sense knob controls how much the input signal will affect the the range of the frequency generator.
The Chaos knob controls the attack. Once turned half way up the Chaos knob loses its ability to track correctly, and the tones created by the frequency generator become more and more random.
The Voice control alternates between two different voicings of the frequency generator, with varied levels of high frequency roll off.
Level controls overall volume of the effect.
The Noise Box also has an internal noise gate built in that turns the frequency generator off when you are not playing.
The Noise Box is hand made in Newberg Oregon.
Die cast metal enclosures for durability.
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Blue LED indicator.
Three year limited warranty.
Musictoyz.com Price $169
Super Nova Drive - Universal Overdrive
The Super Nova Drive is a fun little circuit we have been working on for a while. The concept is simple: an overdrive with a wide gain range coupled with a three band active EQ. Within Such a concept lies many potential pitfalls though. First we had to create an overdrive circuit that was worthy of all the extra control. Something musical both at low and high gain, with just enough harmonic content yet still warm, and enough low end push but not muddy. Several versions, and a few prototypes later we found something that sounded really special, and was still simple enough to fit inside our small pedal enclosures.
Low gain settings have a really nice pick attack, especially when powered by 18 volts. Natural pick attack, and a little bit chimey as you dig in harder on the strings.
As the gain is turned up the the overdrive starts to approach saturated fuzz.
The Super-Nova-Drive is hand made in Newberg Oregon.
Die cast metal enclosures for durability.
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Red LED indicator.
Three-year limited warranty
Musictoyz.com Price $155
Baby Quasar - Phase Shifter
After more than a year in development we had tried just about every analog phaser design possible. I wanted to make sure that this pedal was an improvement over the old quasar in several ways.
The sweep of this phaser truly makes your head spin. The range is much wider, and the controls respond in a much more intuitive fashion. Headroom is not a problem with most guitars, and can be powered by a 12 volt DC power supply for even more headroom.
Somehow we stuffed all of this in to a tiny package.
Just like the older Quasar, the rate can go super fast or super slow. The "voice" knob makes the effect go from subtle to chewey.
The Baby Quasar was an offshoot of the "super deluxe quasar" that we are still working on. We built one simply to prove that the analog portion of our design was as close to perfect as possible, and... well... to make sure it actually worked :o)
The guys started saying 'wow that thing sounds great on it's own.' The name "baby quasar" kind of caught on at the shop, and a new pedal was born.
The new design is VCA-based. VCA's are not used in stompbox designs too often, but they sound unique. More headroom than JFET designs. More consistent sweep than opto-based phasers. Not as cold and grating as some OTA based phasers, especially with bright guitars and amps.
NOTE: The Baby Quasar will not run off a battery. Externally powered only. Power supply is not included.
The Baby Quasar is hand made in Newberg, Oregon.
Die-cast metal enclosures for durability.
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Red LED indicator.
Controls- Rate Voice Depth Frequency.
Three year warranty.
VCA based design.
Musictoyz.com Price $165
Echobox - Modulated Delay
We started out with a great delay sound, added intuitive and useful features. Lush - Sweet - Swirly - Ambient.
The sound of the Echobox Modulated Delay is somewhere between a digital and analog delay, but without the coldness of the the typical digital delay, or the sometimes "clicky" artifacts heard with analog delays.
The repeats degrade each time they are recycled, but without any of the clicking, or popping often caused by "noise reduction" compandor circuits in older delays. Instead, Echobox uses a discrete noise reduction circuit designed from the ground up.
Natural decay mode allows the echo effect to naturally trail off after being bypassed. (with this feature off the pedal is true bypass)
The modulation can be turned completely off, add a little tape-like warble, or push your tone to near insanity.
Maximum delay time is around 800ms. Delay times beyond 500ms are a little "lo-fi." Infinite repeats are possible, and the scaling of the repeat knob can be altered via an internal trimpot.
The Echo Box is hand made in Newberg Oregon.
Die-cast metal enclosures for durability
3PDT switches for true bypass switching
Blue LED indicator
Musictoyz.com Price $209
Prometheus - Resonant Filter
The Prometheus is a voltage controlled 12dB filter which can be manipulated by playing dynamics or an internally generated signal.
What's it do?
The Prometheus is everything you've ever wanted in a filter pedal.
* Loads of headroom
* Reasonable size (measures about 3.7x4.7 inches)
* Highpass, Bandpass, and Lowpass filtering with adjustable intensity (resonance)
* Forward and reverse envelope following
* Sample/Hold step filtering based on 3 different wave forms.
* No special power supplies required. Operates with a single 9 volt battery or standard 9 volt adapter.
All that and it has some "hidden features" as well.
* The LFO rate can be adjusted to run much faster than the the step rate. This can be used to create very interesting arpeggiation.
* The Depth knob can push the filter cutoff frequency outside of the audio range. This can be useful to create a slow attack effect.
* The step rate can be turned up high enough for smooth modulation. This can be used to create and autofilter effect, that can sound similar to a phaser or tremolo.
* A fixed filter effect is possible by turning the depth knob down all the way, and using the Frequency knob to set the filter cutoff.
The Noise Box is hand made in Newberg Oregon.
Die cast metal enclosures for durability.
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Blue LED indicator.
Three year limited warranty.
Musictoyz.com Price $235
Proteus - Auto-Filter
The ultimate plug and play filter pedal.
Behold Proteus! The secret is out!
Building on the success of Prometheus, Proteus embraces a very different philosophy. In short, Proteus is what many people wished Prometheus had been- simpler and much easier to use on the fly. The envelope filter mode is much more "funk" than "shoegaze." The step filtering is pure random sample hold. No ultra-fine tuning required. Just tap in a beat, and Proteus does all the thinking for you.
Where Prometheus is a mad science project run amok, Proteus is exactly the opposite. Controls are simple, obvious, and do exactly what you expect, every time.
The low-pass filter does not cut out frequencies below the cutoff point, so the low end always stays intact. It can be bright at some settings, but never shrill.
Controls-
Bypass Switch: Turns the effect off or on. Tap/Mode Switch: Tapping the switch in time starts the sample/hold filter. Holding the switch down for one second switches back to envelope filter mode. Frequency: Filter resting point Depth: Filter modulation range for both envelope follower and sample hold mode. 1-2-4: Step multiplier. One, two or four steps per beat (sample hold mode only)
Proteus is powered externally only with a standard 9V negative center 2.1mm barrel adapter. A 12 volt power supply can be used for increased headroom.
This pedal is the result of our multi-product R&D operation, Project Quasar. The design philosophy behind the Proteus was to create an "Anti-Prometheus." Now you are probably saying to yourself 'Well they are both filters.' In fact the envelope-controlled filter circuit in Proteus is exactly the same. The design philosophy was all about user control. The difference is options vs. ease of use. Even synth nerds can spend hours tweaking knobs and never cover everything Prometheus can do. Proteus is straight-to-the-point filter that anyone can figure out in 60 seconds.
NOTE: Proteus will not run off a battery. Externally powered only. 9VDC power supply not included.
The Noise Box is hand made in Newberg Oregon.
Die cast metal enclosures for durability.
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Blue LED indicator.
Three year limited warranty.
Musictoyz.com Price $189
Flying Tomato - Mutant Fuzz
What is the Flying Tomato? The Flying Tomato is loosely based on the classic two-transistor fuzz design, but with a few modern improvements.
One of the ideas we strive for here at Subdecay, are pedals you can "match" to your guitar and amp. Some fuzzes sound great with a combination of certain guitars and amplifiers, but are lackluster with others. The Flying Tomato addresses the limitations of classic fuzz designs with a few modern improvements, and it doesn't stop at true-bypass and an LED.
A switchable impedance-matching input buffer allows the Flying Tomato to work well after virtually any pedal, or with active pickups. With the Bias control, you can dial in just the right flavor of fuzz, from gated, to classic, to hair-raising. Finally, with the separate Low and Hi tone controls, you can refine your fuzz tone, from being a subtle background texture to cutting mercilessly through the mix when you need it to.
If you are a "vintage tone purist" you probably want to stop reading right here (but wait, you're almost done anyways...) While the Flying Tomato is loosely based on classic designs, it is not authentic to any original. Like most of the tomatoes you buy at the grocery store these days, this fuzz has been unnaturally altered.
The Flying Tomato is hand made in Newberg, Oregon.
Die-cast metal enclosure for durability
3PDT switches for true-bypass switching
Red LED indicator
Three-year limited warranty
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