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Il Mostro: Triple drive and distortion box.

The goal when designing the Il Mostro was to make a super versatile dirt pedal so that I won’t have to carry around 3-4 different drive pedals. And so it delivers 3 switchable drive modes and a hybrid active/passive 3 band eq.

Mode one is a low-medium gain overdrive. It has enough clean headroom to be used as a clean boost and with the 3 band eq you can totally reshape the tone of your guitar. Add Bass and Mids and fatten up your clean sound, then cut the Bass and add some Highs and you have a treble booster. Turn up the gain and add plenty of Mids and it plays like a tubescreamer.

Mode two is a medium to high gain distortion. It’s tight and aggressive if you add Bass and scoop the Mids, it’s fat and crunchy if you do the opposite.

Mode three is a higher gain bass boosted version of mode two that nails high gain Tool like rythm guitar tones and fat lead sounds.

The 3 band eq makes it work with various music styles and guitar(or bass)-amp combinations. On the inside you’ll find a presence-voicing trimmer that you can adjust to taste. Features true bypass switching.

Voted among the best overdrive pedals of 2018 on GuitarPedalX website.

Also among the best overdrives of 2017 on Intheblues channel.

Here's what other users have said about the Il Mostro:

"Placed the Il Mostro on my pedalboard - what a beast of a pedal! Great Job, guys!"

" Would never give that pedal away. Love it for its warm sound and beautiful sounding EQs, and of course the quite flexible distortion, which has that rough touch I needed. "

"... killer-tone, very versatile. Excellent pedal, i love it... "