The Florist is the end result of Non-Human Audio and Benson Amps being so inspired by the possibilities of improving an existing pedal that we pushed the idea even further and create a whole new pedal in what we hope will be an expanding genre of pedals.

The Florist can add some subtle movement under your playing, it can be a chorus, it can be a modulated semi-reverb, it can almost flange, it can achieve weird space sounds, it can sound like a broken tape machine, it can do a lot of things.

Experiment, find your sound, get weird.

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Demo by Harp LAdy

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Review by The Gear Page

Manual

Florist Dynamic Modulator

Wir nennen ihn unseren Preamp, weil er es ist! Die Schaltung basiert auf unserem Chimera 30-Watt-Gitarrenverstärker, ersetzt aber die Röhren durch FET-Transistoren. Das Ergebnis ist ein extrem verstärkerähnliches und vielseitiges Clean-Boost/Overdrive/Fuzz-Pedal, das deiner Signalkette reiche Obertöne und einen sehr musikalischen EQ verleiht... wirklich eine Chimera in einer Box!

We call this our Preamp because it is! The circuit is based on the our Chimera 30 watt guitar amplifier, but substitutes FET transistors for the vacuum tubes. The result is an extremely amp-like and versatile clean boost/overdrive/fuzz pedal that imparts rich harmonics and a very musical EQ to your signal chain…truly a Chimera in a box!

Demo by Mike Hermans

Demo by Reverb

Review by Reddit /guitarpedals

Review by That Guitar Lover

Preamp

Like the Germanium Fuzz before it, the Stonk Box attempts to take a classic 1960’s fuzz design, and bring the sound into the modern world without bringing any along the flaws and inconsistencies of the original. In this case, we set our eyes on the MK1 fuzz (which is itself a modified version of the very first fuzz ever). We kept the original controls (FILTER and VOLUME), and added a TONE control and a TRIM control to expand the palette of sounds available. Buffer and pedal order friendly (but with no pickup simulation, we had to tweak the output circuit this time). The original circuit is considered one of the hardest of the classic fuzzes to get right because of the difficulty in transistor selection...with our patented technology we can do it easily and consistently...for the first time ever! 

Demo by JHS Pedals

Demo by R.J.Ronquillo

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Stonk Box

This pedal is based on our now famous amp-in-a-box Preamp pedal with one important tweak: the replacement of the first FET transistor with a germanium gain stage - stolen from our servo-biased Germanium Boost pedal which is ideal as a versatile gain stage since it reliably imparts a germanium tonality, mostly doesn’t care about temperature, and doesn’t affect frequency response. The result is an alternate universe take on our flagship pedal that marries the incomparable feel of the germanium with the careful equalization and tone controls of the preamp pedal. 

The result is a slightly lower gain, but richer sounding and feeling overdrive/boost/fuzz/whatever we really, really dig. We hope you like it!

Demo by Sasha Ivantic

Demo by collector//emitter

Germanium Preamp

The Cast Iron Stonk Box is a collaboration between KGR Harmony in Oshu, Japan and Knobhead PDX. We’ve known about Keijiro’s cast iron pedals for a while… He has a fantastic pedal line that utilize hand forged iron enclosures (in a foundry that also creates traditional cast iron tetsubin teapots… We recommend looking up the history of these… It is fascinating). 

Keijiro visited us a couple years ago and we floated the idea of doing a run of Benson Pedals using cast iron… He instantly said yes!

We reached out to Paige at Knobhead PDX to create some cool custom knobs for the project… We were going for something elemental that would offset the cold brutality of the iron with some warmth and light. We settled on a clear amber-ish resin which we feel achieves the effect we wanted nicely. 

Stonk Box - Cast Iron Limited Edition