This is the third Land Devices pedal I’ve covered on this site - after the HP-2 Percolator and Moonbow Filter / Overdrive.
I though that there were more stereo gain pedals around - but specifically for analog devices these are relatively rare. We of course have the original mid-size EHX Operation Overload which is definitely analog, as is the Montreal Assembly Too Positive (dual Hotcakes), but then also the OTO Machines BOUM Stereo Warming Unit which I’m not sure is entirely analog - same ...
You can count on Land Devices to harness the very best studio / audio grade components to generate superior tones and textures. And this Moonbow combines dual hi-fidelity resonant filters across a cutoff frequency range of 20Hz to 5kHz.
You can further use a CV input to control the cutoff frequency more dynamically.
And finally you have an Overdrive circuit based on the Land Devices control strip with a 33dB Gain Range, running from -13dB to +20dB.
With those 5 key controls you can...
I last did a roundup selection for Harmonic Percolators back in May 2019 (around 5 years ago!), where this time around I near enough double down on the possible options. Of course the late 70’s Ed Giese designed pedal was absolutely ginormous, and famously with just 2 slider controls - one for ’Harmonics’ or input gain, where the second ’Balance’ one represented Volume / Output. Interestingly this was a hybrid Fuzz circuit - which originally featured 2N404 Germanium, and 2N3565 Silicon ...
Near the start of this week we saw several leading pedal builder brands go all mysterious on us posting an encircled (B) logo ident accompanied by the hashtag #BLACKEDXOUT on various social media. Many thought this to mean some sort of limited or black edition pedals for the Black Friday ’sales’, while I wrongly guessed it implied a Black Friday Sales boycott.
This afternoon all was revealed when 17 Brands together released all-black stealth-like enclosures for one or a few (Walrus Audio) ...
The celebrated InterFax HP-1 Harmonic Percolator which became a major part of Shellac Guitarist Steve Albini’s signature sound had somewhat obscure origins in the early 1970’s at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin electronics repair shop run by one Ed Giese. The Harmonic Percolator makes use of rather unique circuitry utilising a combination of very obscure Germanium PNP and Silicon NPN Transistors (2N404A/1N695 + 2N3565) which pass through even order harmonics while suppressing odd order harmonics - ...