Friday 14 March 2008

White Heat

White Heat : A simple signal booster pedal

Features
  • Up to 35 decibels of clean boost - no break up
  • Can be used to drive tube amps to rake up some dirt
  • Adds a little bit of brightness
  • Full frequency (no bass loss)
  • Hand wired
  • Hand drilled
  • True bypass
  • White LED

Notes
Case painted with BMW Alpine White car spray paint
Decals of the dry-rub variety
PCB from tonepad.com
Almost an exact clone of the MXR microamp, with slight differences
Name and LED combo an homage to the Velvet Underground

Photos


Alternative top view
Top view with light
Rear view
Angle

Samples
All samples feature clean guitar before the pedal is engaged. Samples were recorded with lipstick pickups and a tube preamp.

Clean chords
Clean singles
Dirty singles (with distortion pedal)

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