Chrysalis OD

The Chrysalis is an all discrete, transistor based overdrive aimed at capturing the recorded sound of 70’s era rock. That’s right, not the sound of a vintage amp but the sound of a vintage amp as heard on a record. An “amp-on-a-record-in-a-box” if you will. It’s voiced with an emphasis on the midrange which makes it cut in a live band scenario yet it still has a lot of texture in the low end. Never flabby, full of organic life and presence which helps push the guitar forward with loads of clarity and harmonics. It’s not an over the top high gainer, it’s more natural in it’s break up and it just sounds vintage. The Chrysalis really shines when the gain is dimed and the amp is cranked. An 18 volt power supply is ideal to achieve the most dynamics with a punchier sound, greater headroom and more response to your picking.

Handmade with sweet loving care in Akron Ohio.

Controls:
Drive: Controls the texture and color of the gain while still retaining a crunch through the whole range. All the way clockwise is a good starting point.

Tone: Treble roll off to tame the edges. All the way clockwise is fully open, allowing all the high end through. All the way counter-clockwise makes it nice and warm without being dull. Noon is a good starting point.

Level: Controls the output of the effect, unity is around 10 O’clock

Power
Any regulated 9-18 volt DC power supply with a negative 2.1mm center barrel. Higher voltages will yield more headroom with a more focused tone and a wider gain range.

Measures
4.37" X 2.37" X 1.07"

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $145.00

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Monarch OD

The Monarch Overdrive is an all discrete, FET based dirt machine. It’s designed around the input stage of a vintage amp produced by a company that bears the same name as the color of the monarch (hint...). It’s been configured to produce higher gains that sound very natural and free of compression. The treble and bass controls function as frequency boosters, not the traditional roll off filters in most OD’s. They are located in the preamp section and have a large impact on the over all tone, nature and distortion characteristics of the pedal as well as your amp. It gives big bottom end with a snappy, bright top at all gain ranges with some careful tuning of the tone controls. If you are looking for an overdrive for big fat chords with excellent low end retention, this is it! And, yes, it's true bypass.

Handmade with sweet loving care in Akron Ohio.

Measures
4.37" X 2.37" X 1.07"

Power
Any regulated 9-18 volt DC power supply with a negative 2.1mm center barrel. Higher voltages will yield more headroom with a fatter and more focused tone and a wider gain range.

Controls:
Treble- Boosts the Highs
Bass- Boosts the Lows
Gain- Controls the overdrive
Level- Output

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $155.00

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Ghost Echo Reverb

The Ghost Echo Reverb is designed to emulate a vintage reverb unit. It ‘s capable of providing a little atmosphere all the way through to vast depths. The attack control sets the delay of the initial pick attack on the wet signal only. When playing staccato this registers as a slap back type echo hitting the reverb but when playing fluid lines it adds a massive depth and "fattens" up the sound. The dwell control is a fine tune function that enhances the decay. At first it may seem like it's not there but back it off and you'll miss it. The depth controls the intensity of the reverb. An, yes, it is true bypass!

Measures
4.7" x 3.7" x 1.18"

Power
Any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel. No battery option.

Controls:
Depth- Sets reverb intensity

Dwell- Sets the decay

Attack- Sets the delay of the pick attack on the wet signal

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $155.00

 

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White Light Overdrive

The White Light Overdrive is my take on what an overdrive should be. Based more in the area of vintage overdrives (like the DOD 250 or MXR Distortion+... and no, it's not a clone of anything) with more control over the voice and a lot more "modern" presence to make it more dynamic. Don't let the lack of tone control turn you off, what you put in is what you get out and you can adjust the low end and saturation to your liking w/ the "Weight" control.

Read and in-depth story/review from freqcontrol.com here!

Measures
4.37" X 2.37" X 1.07"

Power
9v Battery or any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

Controls:
Gain- Controls the amount of distortion

Weight- A multi-functional control, allows the level of saturation, bass response and the over all feel of the device to be altered.

Level- Controls the output

Compression Switch- Less= Open w/ more high-mid's and bite. More= Crunchy and compressed with a bit less bite and more flat mids.

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $145.00

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Grand Orbiter

4 stage OTA Based phaser ala the Ross Phaser and DOD 490 (Circuit is loosely based on both of these). Two LFO speeds that can go from painfully slow to ridiculously fast. Dry kill switch to get vibe/vibrato effect, depending on where the controls are set. Rate controls the speed of the LFO, extremely wide range in conjunction with the two mode switch. Depth controls the amount of phase shift mixed with the dry signal (not how the LFO shifts the filters) so you can get very subtle pseudo 2 stage through full on. Sweep controls the frequency range and resonance controls the regeneration which makes the effect more or less intense. The sweep and resonance have a large range and you can dial in classic subtle tones through over the top phasing.

Measures
4.7" x 3.7" x 1.18"

Power
9v Battery or any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

Controls:
Depth- Controls the amount of phase effect mixed with dry signal. When
"dry" switch is in the off position, this should remain at max.

Rate- Controls the speed of the LFO

Sweep- Controls the Frequency range

Resonance- Controls the regeneration of the phasing.

Rate 1+2- Changes the range of the speed control. 1 is slower, 2 is faster.

Dry- Cuts the dry signal to create a vibe/vibrato effect depending on the setting of the other controls. Vibrato is created by turning the rrsonance down low.

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $165.00

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Black Eye Clean Boost

The Black Eye clean boost is a Mosfet based booster. It's very transparent but will add a noticeable sparkle and "umph" to your tone. Capable of boosting your signal by almost 30db as well as acting as a cut control. The gain is set by an internal trimmer (so if you own a low-output guitar you may be able to squeeze out even more boost) and the level is controlled with the external control. Simple.

In case you are not familiar with clean boosts: This device does not create distortion on it's own. It can be used to drive your amp (or other pedals) into singing overdrive or boost your clean sound unaltered.

Measures
4.37" X 2.37" X 1.07"

Power
9v Battery or any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

Controls:
Boost/Cut- External

Gain- Internal Trimmer

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $125.00

Crimson Drive Germanium OD

The Crimson Drive is a germanium based overdrive. It creates an open, uncompressed overdrive via a germanium transistor and 2 germanium diodes. When it reaches top gain, it creates an excellent singing marshall-esq fuzz tone. It works wonders on single coils and sounds great on open chords. It has a nice brite and raw (but not brittle) tone.

Controls:
Gain
Level

Sounds
All sound samples recorded w/ a Gretsch Electromatic LP in bridge position
Max Gain
Half Gain
Light Gain
Crimson Riffs(by Nathan Burks/Bümbox Custom Audio)

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $135.00

Dirt Transmitter Fuzzdriver

The Dirt Transmitter is dual transistor crumbling fuzz tone. The bias control affects the voltage to the transistors which can create super cool gated velcro fuzz when turned counter clockwise or bring it back to life by turing it clockwise. It's "properly biased" around 2'OClock on the dial. Adjusting the tone with the bias is a must to achieve a wide range of sounds. The fuzz control can produce tones from overdrive like break up to all out thick ripping fuzz tones while never getting flabby. Excessive amounts of volume and virtually no extraneous noise. Works great with both single coils and humbuckers, clean up with the guitar volume is excellent .

Measures
4.7" x 3.7" x 1.18"

Power
9v Battery or any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

Controls:
Bias
Fuzz
Level
Tone

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $145.00

Disaster Transport Delay

The Disaster Transport is an analog voiced digital delay with 625ms delay time, all analog dry signal path, true bypass and added modulation. It was designed as an anti-modern delay for those who appreciate a nice tape echo with all it’s peculiarities. It’s unique tone control doubles as a noise filter on longer delay settings and really helps the delay shine with a dirty signal. The mix control allows you to boost the effected signal to nearly 4x the original signal level and the modulation can go from subtle pitch shifting warble to ultra fast tremolo speeds while the LED visually shows the rate.

Controls
Mix- Sets the output level of the effected signal. This should be treated as a gain control/ master volume for the delay line. Unity is around noon and everything above noon will boost the delayed signal louder than the original. This is a gain control so, like any pedal with a lot of gain, a hint of noise and distortion at max setting is completely normal.

Tone- Most delay pedals are heavily filtered at the output to remove the clock noise and other unwanted hash that is common from extending the range of the delay time beyond the limit of the circuitry. This usually leaves the delay sounding dark, muddy and disappear when hitting it with dirt. The Disaster Transport has done away with a lot of the heavy filtering and replaced it with a tone control which allows the user to choose their desired sound and results in more natural tape-like repeats. The tone control is at it’s darkest fully counter clockwise and brightens as you turn it clockwise. A good rule of thumb is to leave the tone control between off (fully counter clockwise) and noon at longer delay times. This will remove all the common noise from hyper-extending the circuit.

Time- From about 30ms fully counter clockwise to about 625ms fully clockwise.

Repeats- Sets the regeneration of the delay line. From one single repeat fully counter clock- wise, subtle repeats around 9 O’clock, strong naturally decaying repeats at noon, near infinite repeats around 2 O’clock and full on self oscillation fully clockwise.

Depth- Sets the depth of the modulation to the delay line. The modulation is true pitch-shifting vibrato, higher depth settings will give sea sick pitch bending, lower settings will yield a more natural chorus/leslie/tremolo setting depending on modulation rate and delay time. To achieve a more natural modulation, the depth should be reduced as the delay time is increased.

Rate- Sets the speed of the modulation. Goes from painfully slow to way-to-fast allowing several different modulation styles to reveal themselves.
Bypass- Turns the effect on/off.

Measures
4.7" x 3.7" x 1.18"

Power
Any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

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Hoof Fuzz

The Hoof is a no-fuss, easy to use device capable of sounds from warm, gritty overdrive to a huge sustaining fuzz. It's a germanium/silicon hybrid muff style fuzz (based on the old green russian muff) with massive amounts of volume on tap and smooth amp-like sustain. It has a tighter, cleaner sound than most muff's which makes it more cutting and discernible in a band setting. The newly added shift control changes the frequency response of the tone control, mainly on the treble side (but takes out the mud on the bass side). Clockwise scoops the mids and counterclockwise enhances the mids. When the shift control is set dead center it has roughly the same frequency response as the original hoof (almost flat but still slightly scooped).

Measures
4 5/8" x 2 1/2" x 1 1/2"

Power
9v Battery or any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

Controls:
Fuzz
Tone
Level
Shift (mids)

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $140.00

Hummingbird Repeat Percussions

The Hummingbird is, at heart, a hard and choppy tremolo. What comes out is more akin to vintage synth style oscillations. It's core is based on the old Vox Repeat Percussion with several updates to reduce noise, enhance the "chop" and add more control. It can create ring mod-like octaves, slow pulses, ping pong delay-like stutters, light blipping through machine gun stutter tremolo and many more wacky sounds!

Measures
4.37" X 2.37" X 1.07"

Power
9v Battery or any standard 9 volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel.

Controls:
Depth- Controls amount of modulation from barely there to full signal chop.
Rate- Controls the speed of the LFO
Level- controls the input/output level
Mode- fast/slow switch for LFO rate

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $145.00

Pulse Machine Trem

The Pulse Machine is a heavily modified and finely tuned version of the old "EA" tremolo schematic that so many tremolos are based on. It sounds beautiful (crisp and clear but well rounded), it's highly useable and virtually silent. It's very reminiscent of old amp trems we are all so fond of. The rate can go from soft pulse-like throbs to a fast and racy sputter and the high brightness LED flashes along. The depth control works through the whole range and there is more than enough volume on tap. If you are looking for a simple and dynamic tremolo, this is your dude!

Controls:
Rate
Depth
Level

Sounds
All sound samples done with a Fender Stratocaster
Rate- 11 O'Clock    Depth- 10 O'Clock    Level- Noon
Rate- 9 O'Clock    Depth- max    Level- Noon
Rate- 3 O'Clock    Depth- Noon    Level- Noon
Rate- max    Depth- Noon    Level- Noon
Rate- max    Depth- 9 O'Clock    Level- Noon
Rate- 11 O'Clock    Depth- 8 O'Clock    Level- Noon w/ Distortion


• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $145.00

Tusk Fuzz

The Tusk fuzz is capable of tones from mild, overdrive-like break up to a tight and cutting fuzz. Most fuzz pedals loose their definition when they get to the top of the dial, the Tusk stays crisp and cutting.

It's more akin to a Rat type distortion than a fuzz face or big muff style fuzz pedal, yet it's thick and full. It fattens up single coils, adds more weight to humbuckers and, if your nice, it'll cook you breakfast too. Maybe not, but it still rips!

Controls:
Fuzz
Level

• True Bypass with LED Indicator
• Standard Boss-Style 9v adapter or battery operation (battery included)
• High Quality parts throughout
• Handmade with care in Akron, Ohio

Musictoyz.com Price $120.00