The Sterling Vox Tone Bender (Circle Electric)

The Sterling is my take on the Vox Tone Bender from 1966. A bright and nasty spitty machine! I tune these to be sonically identical to the original Vox Tone Bender I own. It’s thick and warm in the mids with a little bit of rasp in the highs. It cleans up beautifully and has lots of boost on tap. It does Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Stooges tones perfectly and it’s a hell of a lot of fun!

** These are made to order. Will ship within 3-6 weeks.

What’s inside:

• Built point to point style on a hand cut replica circuit board made from authentic vintage phenolic board.

• Vintage new old stock and/or salvaged capacitors intentionally selected for quality and tone
• Vintage new old stock and/or salvaged resistors hand selected for performance and aesthetic quality from a mix of vintage Allen-Bradley, Piher, Iskra, and others.
• 2 carefully matched vintage germanium transistors. Transistors are hand selected by me through a rigorous tuning process. Transistors are chosen based on how they perform in the circuit. I tune all my pedals with integrity to be as close to the originals as possible. I don’t add any modern tweaks to the circuit.
• The signal path is wired using high end UK shielded cable like the original units.
• High quality hardware including full size alpha pots, Cliff UK style jacks, and a carling footswitch.
• Housed in a hand painted Hammond 125B diecast aluminum enclosure (4.8x2.6x1.55). 
• indicator LED
• powered by 9c battery or standard DC adapter **ISOLATED ONLY**
• Metal Circle Electric Co. name plate
• Bakelite knobs.

** I tune all my pedals with integrity to be as close to the originals as possible. I don’t add any modern tweaks or “improvements” to the circuit.