EarthQuaker Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3 Octave Booster and Distortion

Squeeze Every Last Drop of Heavy Crushing Tone Available – The EarthQuaker Sunn O))) Life Pedal V3 Octave Booster and Distortion

Sunn O))) are pleased to present an enhanced version of the Sunn O))) Life Pedal Octave Distortion + Booster, in collaboration with their comrades at EarthQuaker Devices. The Sunn O))) Life Pedal circuit has been meticulously tweaked from the original to squeeze every last drop of heavy crushing tone available. The octave section has been fine tuned to make it more pronounced without losing the bottom end and we added a third footswitch, utilizing Flexi-Switch Technology®, for the octave to allow an additional method of quick and radical tone shaping.

• Distortion with a blendable analog octave up and a booster
• Features 3 different clipping options: Symmetrical Silicon, Asymmetrical Silicon & LED, and pure OpAmp Drive
• Distortion and booster can be used independently
• Expression and footswitch control over analog octave up
• Octave blend allows total control over how much Octave is mixed into the circuit
• True bypass with silent relay based soft touch switches
• Features EarthQuaker Devices’ proprietary Flexi-Switch Technology
• Lifetime warranty

There is breadth and luminosity of colour, vast sonic cosmoses, flashes of abstract colour (synthetic and objective) through resulting themes which emerged from the mastered depths of saturation and circuits between the two players and their mountains of gear.

The EarthQuaker Devices Sunn O))) Life Pedal is designed to represent the core front end chain used in those sessions, to drive the tubes of the band’s multiple vintage Sunn O))) Model T amplifiers (or take your fancy) into overload ecstasy. This is a 100w tube amp full stack’s holy dream, or its apostate nightmare.

An octave fuzz inspired by the Shin-Ei FY2 & FY6 units leads the circuit into a brutal big box rodent inspired distortion, recreated with the best components, and including a three-way clipping switch (op Amp, Asymmetric & Symmetric). Second stage is a purely clean boost to further overdrive the preamp tubes of your vintage system into -scaped harmonics, and feedback overtone bliss.

Chasms are cleared, mountains sheared, glaciers calved, nova birthed. Vintage valve amplifiers recommended. Designed and manufactured by EarthQuaker Devices in the dark corridors of Akron, Ohio.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Current Draw: 15 mA
• Octave Distortion Input impedance: 1 MΩ
• Octave Distortion Output impedance: <1 kΩ
• Booster Input Impedance: 500 kΩ
• Booster Output Impedance: <1 kΩ

Manufacturer: EarthQuaker Devices
Model: LIFE PEDAL V3
SKU: I720792-N-1-WHXC
UPC: 810019912733

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