B
Sharp's custom pedals are made from the highest quality components and
are created with the working musician in mind. We have built many clones
of famous pedals, usually improving them in some way in the
process. We've also built all kinds of
custom circuits for various purposes such as
microphone and instrument preamps, oscillators, etc.
The Malazadas is two distinct tools housed in the same box.
The right side is an excellent-sounding clean boost, offering 19dB of
gain, which is great for pushing your amp a little harder. The left side
is a nice sounding overdrive/ distortion, for pushing your amp the rest
of the way over the cliff of tone. Both sides feature independent true
bypass switching, so you can use either one individually, or switch them
both on for a stacked gain sound. The Malazadas costs $225 shipped to anywhere in the
continental US.
Our intention with this pedal was to design a circuit that wouldn't squash the sound of a really nice guitar through a really nice amp, while allowing you to boost the volume level (and harmonic content, too, on the distortion side). We are quite satisfied with the results of our 1.5 years of development!
The MALAZADAS is (or has been) played by members of Battles, Ted Leo, Deer Tick, Tinsel Teeth, Sweetthieves, Alec K Redfearn & the Eyesores and more. The fine folks at MachinesWithMagnets use our pedal quite frequently.
Grim
Rimmer!!!!!
Our second pedal,
the Grim Rimmer, is a fuzz pedal with a few strange twists- you could
call it a harmonic subtraction fuzz! At low gain settings it sounds like
a broken speaker, and at higher settings it's a really heavy
psychedelic-sounding classic fuzz. Play some leads higher up on the
neck, and you'll get a really cool 60's octave fuzz effect. It also acts
like a gate, cutting off the lowest-energy signals which means that it
will NEVER feed back even with your amp cranked to 11! The most unique
feature is the way the circuit treats harmonics- Play single notes and
it sounds like a thick fuzz, but if you play chords with lots of open
strings and weird intervals you get this strange intermodulated
distortion sound, kind of like white noise. You really have to hear it
to get it! The Grim Rimmer
costs $185 shipped in the continental US.
***and features a footswitch to switch the ring mod circuit in/out***
The right footswitch is bypass, the left is to switch the Ring Mod in/out. Controls are gain/sensitivity on the right, and volume on the left.We are accepting paypal and phone orders for the Malazadas,
the Grim Rimmer, and the Black Box. Call the shop
at (401) 223-2112 during normal business hours, or click on
the "Buy Now" button for the pedal you
want.