With its highly responsive design, it adapts to your guitar, pick attack, and modifications from its control set. The pedal features two 12-position rotary switches selecting from 24 diodes and an additional switch for asymmetric distortion, offering a plethora of tonal variations. Enhanced with active 2-band EQ, this simple yet dynamic pedal, derived from the Electra circuit, excels both on stage and in the studio. Built in Michigan by skilled craftspeople, Gross is the ultimate Swiss Army tone sculptor for any guitarist looking to expand their sound palette.

Joe Gore Gross Distortion Pedal Features

• New Version 2: Increased from 156 to 228 possible clipping diode configurations.
• Responsive Distortion: Rich, growling tones easily reshaped by guitar volume and tone.
• Simple, Powerful Circuit: Based on the Electra circuit with a single transistor for dynamic response and less compression.
• Active 2-Band Tone Control: Seldom combined with primitive distortion for better definition and pairing with other gain pedals.
• High Praise:
  • Premier Guitar: “It’s hard to make a bad sound.”
  • Michael Beinhorn: “One of the coolest distortion pedals I’ve heard.”
  • Teddy Kumpel: “A Swiss Army tone sculptor with 156 settings.”
  • John Flannery: “Insanely useful for TV/film/commercial composing.”

NOTE: As on many primitive single-transistor distortion circuits, you’ll probably hear a slight crackling when turning the gain knob. This is not a faulty component but an unavoidable side effect of circuits of this type. For most players, this is not a problem. But if you think you’re likely to adjust the gain control often mid-performance, this may be an issue. Proceed with care.

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