Twice Pipes: Tube overdrive with tube boost
The TWICE PIPES tube overdrive pedal has a wide range of drive and tone from almost clean crunch to heavy, high gain, but………….it also has a second tube as a boost drive. When the first tube just isn’t enough, click in the backup and turn up the overdrive, way up! This pedal has GAIN 1, GAIN 2, TONE and VOLUME control, as well as true bypass so when it isn’t active all you hear is your guitar.
A great part of this pedal is that you can swap tubes to get different tone, drive, color, noise, compression, etc. I have piles of new and vintage tubes that I use in my pedals, specially recording, to get different or unique or sometimes terrible overdrive sounds.
TWICE PIPES is designed, hand wired and assembled here at NEF, as are all NEF pedals, and all pedals are made to order.
Low Gear: Bass overdrive
The NEF LOW GEAR bass overdrive pedal came from my own inability to find a bass overdrive that suited my needs playing in a band with heavy down tuned guitars. The bass being tuned so low would get lost and lose all of its tone so I sat down and designed a circuit that fit what I was looking for.
LOW GEAR bass overdrive was designed for a low tuned bass but sounds great on any bass you put through it. This bad little beast has adjustability for TONE, DRIVE, VOLUME and the best feature, BLEND. This is how it helps a very low tuned bass power through pretty much anything. The BLEND knob splits the dry input signal and feeds an adjustable amount to the output along with the overdriven signal. This helps those low notes retain some much needed attack while the overdrive will shake the mice out of the walls.
Fuzzy Dice: Guitar Fuzz
The FUZZY DICE guitar fuzz pedal is a small footprint pedal designed to bring a big fuzz sound. This pedal gives a bunch of options from progressive and peculiar buzzy, zap, super gated noise to super heavy yet tight distortion, and a little surprise when the FUZZ knob is cranked all the way it mellows out to give this very warm clean crunch. There is also a volume control for even more tonal options. This pedal is fantastic at its low, buzzy setting when paired with modulation effects and loopers, or in super fuzz distortion settings with a delay for solos or I find myself using it most as my clean tone turned all the way up with a light spring reverb for a really classic clean/crunch sound.