flyingteapot Pleiades – Hysteric Overdrive

Pleiades is a boutique overdrive from Japan designed around harmonic shimmer, dynamic saturation, and sharp yet beautiful high-end response.

It preserves string separation and amplifier interaction while delivering a uniquely atmospheric gain texture.

Handmade in Japan.

Inspired by the winter star cluster “Pleiades,” this overdrive was created around a single concept:

sharpness with beauty.

Pleiades delivers an aggressive, highly present top end while maintaining a smooth, cold transparency that never becomes harsh.

Rather than compressing everything into flat distortion, it preserves harmonic movement, string separation, and dynamic interaction with your amplifier.

The low end is carefully tuned to remain tight and articulate, allowing complex chords and ambient textures to stay clear even at higher gain settings.

From fast, responsive crunch tones to saturated lead sounds, Pleiades covers a remarkably wide range while retaining its unique shimmering character.

Designed to Shape “How the Sound Shines”

Pleiades features six controls and two toggle switches in a newly designed ultra-compact enclosure.

Instead of a conventional single-tone approach, the pedal separates different aspects of the high-frequency response:

• Glitter controls gain focused only on the upper harmonics
• Luster shapes ultra-high presence and air
• Bright adjusts overall tonal brightness

Together, these controls allow players to sculpt not only EQ, but the actual texture of brilliance within the sound.

The interaction between Glitter and Preamp makes it possible to intuitively balance sharpness, thickness, saturation, and transparency.

Compact Enclosure, Boutique-Level Flexibility

Despite its compact size, Pleiades offers a highly flexible gain structure suitable for:

• articulate chord cutting
• responsive crunch tones
• ambient and atmospheric textures
• blues with fast transient attack
• modern high-gain stacking applications

With clipping disabled, the pedal becomes highly dynamic and touch-sensitive.
With clipping engaged, it delivers a smoother, more compressed saturation.

Pleiades creates the sensation of cold stars flashing across a winter sky —
sharp, transparent, and endlessly expressive.

Handmade in Japan.