Drunk Beaver's 19th Pedal Drop is a killer confection of Boss OD-1 style 14-Leg Opamp tone generation, with OD-3 style Tone-Stack and additional clipping options

I’m so excited to get my hands on this new Pedal Drop pedal. Readers will long have read on this blog that I was desperate to get my hand on an original 14-Leg Opamp-loaded OD-1 style overdrive, but with some additional tone-shaping mods also.

And that is exactly what Vitalli has done here. He’s been able to source NOS Motorola MC3403 14-Leg Opamp chips which are the exact equivalent specs of the original 14-Leg Raytheon Opamps - which have the same core designation number - while rather MX3403 designation than RC3403.

So the OD-1 tone generation uses identical component values to the very original Boss OD-1, but then with a versatile OD-3 style Tone-Stack on the back-end to greatly increase the versatility of that circuit.

You further have a 3-way Diode Clipping toggle switch - where the bottom Silicon Setting uses rare milspec Polish CEMI diodes with almost exactly the same characteristics as the vintage Japanese ones originally used by Boss (BAYP-84A). The middle option gives you ’-’ No Clipping, and the the Top option gives you 2 Red LED’s for a little more open and punchy gain and sustain.

I really could not be more excited to get my hands on this - it’s exactly what the Doctor ordered!

Controls - Volume, Tone (from OD-3), Drive, Clipping : LED / None / Silicon.

These are available right now on the Drunk Beaver Webstore - for a very reasonable $150.

I expect these to go incredibly quickly - as these are most definitely a rare breed! It’s fantastic to have 2 such strong Pedal Drop releases one after the other, as the Chernivtsi Trembita Tremolo is a killer proposition too.

As usual there are no official demos of this pedal - while Analog.Man Mike Piera’s 14 Pin vs 8 Pin video below give you and idea of what all the excitement is about.