Reissue of the first and highly coveted Way Huge pedal. Boutique style overdrive with a small Tweed Amp style tone. Transparent and responsive to playing dynamics.
The often imitated but never duplicated thunder of the Red Llama is back! This is not a reproduction, but a continuation of where the groundbreaking archetype left off in 1999. Every single feature that made the WHE203 Red Llama so mighty is still in place, right where Mr. Huge left them. Season to taste any amp, big or small, clean or dirty the Llama is the perfect compliment to them all, with a rich harmonic palette available on the austere control panel. Spin the drive knob and go from a gentle grind all the way up to massive distortion. Use lower settings for defined open chording or juiced clean tones. Go a little higher for crunchy power fifths, and crank it up for buttery lead tones and tight, bottom-heavy riffage. The volume control sets the desired amount of overall level, but be forewarned: The output capabilities of the WHE203 Red Llama are legendary, with more than enough gain to force even the cleanest, most stubborn amps to submit their headroom.
This is how you wished your Fuzzface sounded... Fat and Harmonic. And it cleans up like a vintage Fender amp when you turn down your guitar's volume control. The Rolling Stones and the Black Crowes have discovered this trick. If you love the first 2 Hendrix releases then you'll love this pedal, with 2 Germanium transistors hand-picked and tested for optimum performance. A Contour Knob lets you dial in Midrange, Harmonics and Sustain, also an Input Bias knob that takes out the "woofiness" and gives great Overdrive/Distortion sounds when its level is reduced. An Internal Trimmer allows for adjustment of Clipping Symmetry, Harmonics, and Tracking. Specifications subject to change at any given moment due to availability... and whimsy. True-Bypass w/LED is standard equipment to preserve tone when the pedal is off!
Truetone Clean Boost is the Perfect way to push the front end of your tube amp. Then again, it's also a great way to push a good overdrive pedal a bit harder. If you like the tone you already have from another pedal, just put Truetone after that pedal for a volume boost... great for a solo boost or to make a certain part stand out. Punch in and punch out without affecting your tone. The Truetone can get up to a 15dB boost, but the real uniqueness of it is that it is running internally off of 27V. So, all of that boost is clean. We bump up the voltage inside the pedal, rather than requiring use of a special external power supply. Most other boost pedals just run off of 9V, so although they might advertise a greater boost than 15dB, it's really just overdrive boost at any setting greater than about 6dB.
The "Jewel Drive" is a pure 100% analog hand-built two channel overdrive effect pedal, especially designed to offer you authentic tube overdriven amp sounds ranging from sparkling clean to moderate crunch to overdriven sounds. This pedal is extremely open sounding with high transparency and wide dynamics. The "Jewel Drive" reacts extraordinary touch sensitive, the differences between softer and harder picking are reproduced in every nuances. Due to it´s novel and unique analog circuit, the "Jewel Drive" creates a rich, complex and beautiful singing overtone texture, while the inherent tone of your amp and guitar you are playing is perfectly preserved. Used as on overdrive in front of your amp the "Jewel Drive" gives you the feeling of a cranked amp even at lower volume levels. Clean notes now have a wider dynamic range and more overdriven sounds are still pronaunced and rich with the right content of even-order harmonics. By simply turning the guitar´s volume knob you can blend through the complete overdrive spectrum, the "Jewel Drive" interacts very, very well, very similar to a good tube amp!
Since the Vahlbruch "Jewel Drive" is more a so-called "medium-gain" overdrive pedal, the "Sapphire Drive" offers higher gain/distortion sounds. It´s still a very open sounding pedal with a great transparency, also the 6 knobs are closely related to the "Jewel Drive". The "Sapphire Drive" is a pure 100% analog hand-built two channel distortion effect pedal, especially designed to offer you authentic tube overdriven amp sounds ranging from sparkling clean to moderate crunch to more distorted sounds. This pedal is extremely open sounding with high transparency and wide dynamics. The "Sapphire Drive" reacts extraordinary touch sensitive, the differences between softer and harder picking are reproduced in every nuances. Due to it´s novel and unique analog circuit, the "Sapphire Drive" creates a rich, complex and beautiful singing overtone texture, while the inherent tone of your amp and guitar you are playing is perfectly preserved.