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I picked up this glorious Bee Motif Hello Sailor Effects 3-in-1 Dual RangeMaster at the recent Woking Boutique Guitar Show - as a lovely early birthday present!
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Bee Motif Hello Sailor Effects 3-in-1 Dual RangeMaster by Joe Halliday. Left: Silicon Texas Instruments 2N4060; Right: Germanium Newmarket NKT CV7001; bees fabric finish.
Controls: SILICON — Boost, Range Hi/Mid, Gain. GERMANIUM — Boost, Range Hi/Mid, Gain, footswitch per channel. Silicon shows noisefloor beyond 2 o’c and is beefy/aggressive. Germanium is bright/expressive; typically maxed while Silicon Gain stays at or below 2 o’c. Combined channels give pseudo/proto fuzz.
Often used with ThorpyFX Heavy Water. As of 2026-07-13, the price was £320 for a similar Skull/Dia De Los Muertos unit on the HSE Webstore. 13th HSE pedal in the reference collection; highly recommended.
So Joe Halliday made me a killer Dual RangeMaster - with Silicon Texas Instruments 2N4060 Transistor on the left channel, and Germanium Newmarket NKT CV7001 on the right - which I picked up a week before my Birthday.
It’s literally and liberally filled to the brim with the best of Primo Components - for a wonderfully richly textured output. And it features that fantastic looking ’Bees’ fabric that Joe spotted in a store while on holiday.
Controls - SILICON } Boost, Range : Hi / Mid, Gain; GERMANIUM } Boost, Range : Hi / Mid, Gain, Footswitch per Channel.
You need to be particularly careful with the Silicon Channel - which has a certain amount of noisefloor to it if you go beyond 2 o’c.
The Silicon is Beefy and Aggressive, while the Germanium is Bright and expressive, I typically gave Germanium side maxed out, while the Silicon Gain never goes above 2 o’c for me. You still get a little bit of a noise floor when you combine the two channels in that manner - but it sounds excellent.
For many there will be plenty of volume onboard - certainly on the Silicon side - it easily reaches unity - while I would still like a little more - to give me more of a searing output.
I typically hit this RangeMaster with both barrels of the ThorpyFX Heavy Water - that sounds exceptional. With both channels combined you get that sort of pseudo / proto fuzz sound - with fuzzy-drive textures galore!
This is yet another really special exceptional Hello Sailor Effects pedal - with distinct and unique textures.
It’s a nigh perfect execution from all sides - while a soupçon of more volume and sear would be very welcome.
As this pedal was a gift - it doesn’t have an associated price as such - while there is another on the HSE Webstore - this time with a Skull / Dia De Los Muertos theme - featuring largely the same sort of components - and that one goes for £320.
This is my 13th HSE Pedal into the reference collection - and the first proper Hello Sailor RangeMaster variant - while a very special edition of that!
Highly recommended!
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