Product Overview
Using a 12AX7 tube, and powered from an external 15VAC to 16VAC supply with a 2.1mm plug, this pedal runs the tube in starved plate mode, for that real tube sound. Many pedals on the market have the word “tube” in their name, and while these can be quite good, they don’t use a real tube to get “that sound”.
This is the Mozztronics take on a pedal with an actual 12AX7 tube inside. Some products with tubes use the tube for filtering only, in the “tone control” section of the circuit. What a waste of a tube. We here at Mozztronics use the tube where it is meant to be used, in the gain stages, so the drive you hear is tube drive.
GAIN controls the amount of overdrive from a light crunch to a searing screaming overdrive, TONE adjusts the brightness of the signal, VOLUME adjusts the overall output volume of the pedal, and there is a 3 position CONTOUR switch to select between mild / normal / heavy.
Mozztronics uses the industry standard 2.1mm socket for the power supply connection. Power is from an external 15VAC 0.4A plugpack which is INCLUDED with this pedal.
About MOZZTRONICS:
Mozztronics produce a range of handmade Guitar and Bass effects pedals in Melbourne Australia.
Mozztronics makes a limited range of effects pedals. I see no point in making something that everyone else makes, or a clone of a famous pedal, i want to make something a little different. I also want to keep all my products as completely analogue, with absolutely no digital electronics, not even a charge pump switching power supply.
But you make a compressor, a tremolo, a solid state dirt box (expandrive) i hear you say. Well yes i do, and i try to make these different to what is on the market. My compressor uses a different approach to the Ross / Dynacomp clones that fill the market, and i also have a bright switch especially useful for guitar. My tremolo has sine & square LFO waves for modulation and while similar to others on the market, does the basic tremolo job quite well and it uses an old school opto device to get the tremolo effect, the same sort of opto device used on the classic opto compressors. My solid state dirt box (expandrive) offers treble boost and cut (instead of just a treble cut on many others) as well as adjustable asymmetry and expansion, so while similar to other products on the market, i hope to make my products different enough to offer useful advantages to the standard tube screamer & distortion + and their many clones.
