BIPOLAR: booster, overdrive vII.The BIPOLAR is an extremely versately stompbox, ready to take any place you want in your pedalboard. With just 3 knobs you can achieve an incredible spectrum of tones.Booster: if you add Gain it becomes a Booster. Clear and trasparent with lower gain, rich and dynamic at higher gain. It can add sparkles and "fatness" to your tone and responds to your picking style. Too...

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Don't lose your tone! Having lots of pedals is great and fun but your guitar tone is losing its way into that maze of cables and jacks? It may need a guidance.. the Lighthouse is here! In a small and pedalboard-friendly enclosure you will find not one but two brilliant, indipendent, clean and trasparent buffers that can be operated from 9 to 18...

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Library of Compress The core idea for this pedal,as well as the cover art,  came from Luka Pek. He bought a Bipolar and since then we started a never ending chat about pedals, pedal builiding and other stompbox-related stuff. He used to own a delay with a feedback loop in which he put a compressor. Thanks to this he was able to shape...

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Waterfall fuzz The Waterfall fuzz is not gnarling fuzz, or a stuttering one, a synthy one, a gated fuzz: it's a simple and great sounding thundering fuzz! With just four knobs and two switches it's easy and intuitive to use, without compromising its versatility. Let's have a look: Fuzz knob: yeah, we all know this is going to be always near 11; Volume...

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In this post I'll show you how I do perfboard circuit when I want to prototype something quickly. There are a lot of different way so this is not THE best way, but my way. Hope you like it! What we need: perfboard - I'm using and old and battered small piece solid core wire or salvaged component leads - yes, I keep...

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For part one look here For the Gemini we wanted to use our double switch to change between two sets of knobs (Gain and Level).  In this case the switch is not turning off and on the pedal (there's a classic footswitch for that) but it is to switch between the two different sets so we needed a led-code to tell the user when...

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