What we've done here is essentially make a tubescreamer with an extra control to dial in how aggressive and heavy it sounds. This gives you a very simple way to not only dial in what you need for the amp you're running into, but take things back to the "stock" tubescreamer sound just by turning one knob.
Volume: This is the most obvious. It makes the pedal louder.
Gain: Would you like a little or a lot? Minimum settings will give you a very clean tone and turn the pedal into essentially just a mid boost. Turn it up just a bit to add a huge amount of crunch and a little saturation. If your amp is lacking in gain, you can crank it up as much as you want to thicken things up a ton without turning into pure mud.
Tone: This is exactly what you would expect from a tubescreamer tone control , but with a little finer control and a little less "honk/quack" to it.
Tight: This is the reason you're looking at this page. It's a super simple control luckily. Turn it up, your tone gets tighter. Not TOO tight!! If you cut too much low end you end up with a thin tone. The lowest setting will be just slightly thicker than a normal screamer, perfect for a less modern sound.
Graphics by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design.
Volume/Tone/Gain/Tight Controls
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Volume: This is the most obvious. It makes the pedal louder.
Gain: Would you like a little or a lot? Minimum settings will give you a very clean tone and turn the pedal into essentially just a mid boost. Turn it up just a bit to add a huge amount of crunch and a little saturation. If your amp is lacking in gain, you can crank it up as much as you want to thicken things up a ton without turning into pure mud.
Tone: This is exactly what you would expect from a tubescreamer tone control , but with a little finer control and a little less "honk/quack" to it.
Tight: This is the reason you're looking at this page. It's a super simple control luckily. Turn it up, your tone gets tighter. Not TOO tight!! If you cut too much low end you end up with a thin tone. The lowest setting will be just slightly thicker than a normal screamer, perfect for a less modern sound.
Graphics by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design.
Volume/Tone/Gain/Tight Controls
High quality, low tolerance components
Neutrik Jacks
Alpha Pots
Heavy duty, yet lightweight diecast aluminum enclosure
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass with heavy duty mechanical footswitch
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 20-25mA
Hand Built in Canada
Volume: This is the most obvious. It makes the pedal louder.
Low: The Low control will fine tune how much bass and chunk are coming out of your pedal. It will be most noticeable at higher volumes.
Mid: The Mid control on this pedal gives you the ability dial in a bit of lo-mids as well as hi-mids. Since its a passive control, it's safe to run at any position without it sounding objectively "bad".
High: Here's where you dial in how much treble and sizzle you want in your tone. Higher settings will bite and cut like a knife while lower settings will be much smoother and warmer.
Eq Tip: Try turning all the eq controls to minimum and raising one at a time rather than starting at noon.
Gain: You can't have distortion without gain! From a light crunch up to searing thick gain, this is the control that you find it with.
Power: The Savage Distortion can be ran at anywhere from 9-18 volts with 9volts having the most audible gain.
Graphics by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design.
Volume/Gain/Low/Mid/High Controls
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True Bypass
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Current Draw 20-30mA
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Low: The Low control will fine tune how much bass and chunk are coming out of your pedal. It will be most noticeable at higher volumes.
Mid: The Mid control on this pedal gives you the ability dial in a bit of lo-mids as well as hi-mids. Since its a passive control, it's safe to run at any position without it sounding objectively "bad".
High: Here's where you dial in how much treble and sizzle you want in your tone. Higher settings will bite and cut like a knife while lower settings will be much smoother and warmer.
Eq Tip: Try turning all the eq controls to minimum and raising one at a time rather than starting at noon.
Gain: You can't have distortion without gain! From a light crunch up to searing thick gain, this is the control that you find it with.
Power: The Savage Distortion can be ran at anywhere from 9-18 volts with 9volts having the most audible gain.
Graphics by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design.
Volume/Gain/Low/Mid/High Controls
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 20-30mA
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An updated version of one of our favorites and an essential part of Gary Holt's lead tone!!
The goal with the new Savage Boost was to retain the original tone but add just a bit more control over it without making it complicated. It's still the same savagely vicious mid boost, we promise.
Bite: This lets you dial in just how savage things are. Once you get about halfway, you'll notice some additional saturation as well.
Boost: Here's where you control how much output you're getting.
Bite/Boost Controls
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The goal with the new Savage Boost was to retain the original tone but add just a bit more control over it without making it complicated. It's still the same savagely vicious mid boost, we promise.
Bite: This lets you dial in just how savage things are. Once you get about halfway, you'll notice some additional saturation as well.
Boost: Here's where you control how much output you're getting.
Bite/Boost Controls
High quality, low tolerance components
Neutrik Jacks
Alpha Pots
Heavy duty, yet lightweight diecast aluminum enclosure
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass with heavy duty mechanical footswitch
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 20-25mA
Hand Built in Canada
Legacy/We Don't Build It Anymore
Coming Soon. A section dedicated to things we don't make anymore, but get asked about.
PLEASE NOTE: Anything that gets posted to this page is NOT available to purchase/order. Products get discontinued for a large number of different reasons, so don't feel like we do it out of spite or for kicks.
PLEASE NOTE: Anything that gets posted to this page is NOT available to purchase/order. Products get discontinued for a large number of different reasons, so don't feel like we do it out of spite or for kicks.
The Exodustortion
When you're thinking about thrash metal, it doesn't take long for Gary Holt to come to mind! The Exodustortion was designed to emulate Gary's Exodus tones and based off the Jose modded Marshall's that are now famous. With simplified controls, we've made it easier than ever to get that same crunch for yourself.
Graphics by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design.
Volume/Gain/Low/High Controls
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass
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Current Draw 20-30mA
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When you're thinking about thrash metal, it doesn't take long for Gary Holt to come to mind! The Exodustortion was designed to emulate Gary's Exodus tones and based off the Jose modded Marshall's that are now famous. With simplified controls, we've made it easier than ever to get that same crunch for yourself.
Graphics by Remy Cooper of Headsplit Design.
Volume/Gain/Low/High Controls
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 20-30mA
Hand Built in Canada
The Electric Dragon
What do you get when you combine a tubescreamer based circuit and a TC Integrated Preamp based circuit? You get the Electric Dragon! Typically one or the other is the perfect pairing for certain amps, but why not have both in one? Both halves can be used independently or stacked, so it's essentially two full pedals in one. The tubescreamer side has also gotten a heavy dose of "Airis" as it has the Klon style power supply and buffers.
Part of what makes the TC Pre fantastic is in the power supply section. Providing a very Klon-like bi-polar +18volt/-9volt setup, it adds the most clarity and headroom possible. Far superior than just running 18volts into a pedal that doesn't need it. To make the Electric Dragon scream a little louder and clearer, this same power supply is feeding the Screamer side of the pedal. So don't run more than 9volts into it. The pedal will take care of everything else. Except playing the guitar for you unfortunately. (that one is still in development)
Power: The Electric Dragon features an onboard bi-polar power supply, so it requires 9volts ONLY!!! Higher voltage will only damage it.
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Current Draw 25-40mA
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What do you get when you combine a tubescreamer based circuit and a TC Integrated Preamp based circuit? You get the Electric Dragon! Typically one or the other is the perfect pairing for certain amps, but why not have both in one? Both halves can be used independently or stacked, so it's essentially two full pedals in one. The tubescreamer side has also gotten a heavy dose of "Airis" as it has the Klon style power supply and buffers.
Part of what makes the TC Pre fantastic is in the power supply section. Providing a very Klon-like bi-polar +18volt/-9volt setup, it adds the most clarity and headroom possible. Far superior than just running 18volts into a pedal that doesn't need it. To make the Electric Dragon scream a little louder and clearer, this same power supply is feeding the Screamer side of the pedal. So don't run more than 9volts into it. The pedal will take care of everything else. Except playing the guitar for you unfortunately. (that one is still in development)
Power: The Electric Dragon features an onboard bi-polar power supply, so it requires 9volts ONLY!!! Higher voltage will only damage it.
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 25-40mA
Hand Built in Canada