Glass Palace is a glassy low to mid gain drive pedal (hence the name) that is suitably at home providing twinkly midwest-emo chime through to awkward and discordant noise rock.

At the circuit’s heart lies one of my favourite preamp circuits of all time, the DOD Bifet Preamp. The original circuit was great for adding some secret sauce to your guitar sound and I have always kept one on my pedalboard in some form or another.

Glass Palace’s circuitry takes a step away from its source material as it’s been cross contaminated with Fuzz DNA. Two switchable flavours of transistor based fuzz circuits lie at its core, with those two respective circuits being both pushed and emphasised by the preamp circuitry.

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Mountain Mover is a ‘Big Muff’ variant paired with a ring modulator.

I’ve always had a fascination with Muff style fuzzes but have found them relatively one dimensional in the past and impossible to fit into a band scenario.

The idea behind Mountain Mover was to put together an aggressive sounding fuzz for the weirder crowd who prefer something a bit different when it comes to dirt.

I opted to add in a selection of toggle switches to quickly shift and manipulate the overall tonality of the fuzz.

The right footswitch engages the fuzz circuit and the left footswitch engages the ring modulator.

Two options are available for the ring modulator footswitch, Latching or Momentary.

Latching is perfect for drone/noise/experimental music while momentary gives you the ability to apply quick bursts of chaos mid riff.

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Deforming is a PT2399 based delay with an envelope controlled warp function.

We've all played a show where you get to the end of your set, click on your delay pedal, crank the feedback knob and manically twist the time knob for walls of time bending chaos.

The concept behind Deforming was to make that time knob manipulation possible without having to drop to your knees and put your hands on the pedal. Meaning you can keep playing while the delay signal bends and warps around your playing.

Deforming features an input preamp which can be driven hard to saturate the unit and emulate the preamps of old tape machines. This preamp control also helps you reduce the input volume to balance out the signal when driving the unit with loud dirt pedals.

The warping effect can range from subtle pitch wobbles for shoegazey chord movement through to all out warped chaos at the most extreme settings.

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Plague Pit was born after receiving multiple requests to build a pair of Abracadaver circuits into a single box.

Plague Pit expands the regular Abracadaver circuit by taking its internal controls and bringing them to the outside of the pedal. There are independent controls for both Volume and the ‘Clang’ amount of each respective circuit. I have also massively increased the gain of the Abracadaver circuits to drive your amp a little harder (although you can switch back to the regular level of gain via an internal dip switch if you wish.)

The two circuits are wired in series from right to left. This means you can either use the circuits independently or stack them for double the fun. Dial back the volume on your guitar for strange clanging sitar impressions before kicking in the second circuit to completely obliterate your amplifier. With the Clang knobs dialed back it spews forth a thick and sludgy fuzz tone perfect for doom. As you crank the Clang knobs the octave up blends into the signal to drag your guitar to the forefront of the mix when playing with a band.

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Tides is fundamentally a highly tweak-able dirty reverb. A more accurate description of the pedal would be an atmosphere generator that allows you to craft perfect noisy waves of reverb. Usually you would be advised to place all dirt before your reverb pedal but Tides ignores this convention and is designed to add dirt after your dry signal has been blended with the wet signal. This approach enables you to create over the top fuzzy walls of sound sprinkled with interesting harmonics and sonic artefacts that would not be achieved otherwise.

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