Imagine its 1982. You have a beautiful ’74 Ford Cortina – you’ve had it since new – a minter . You’re going on holiday and of course you don’t want to leave it parked in the street. So you take it round to your Uncle Jake’s house – he has a garage, Uncle Jake.
It’s a bit risky, because Uncle Jake is a little bit crazy and you know he love’s tinkering with motor cars, but just the same you leave your very cool, mint , bright Orange Cortina with him . . . . . . . . . .
When you return, your Cortina MKIV is unrecognisable, the engine . . . .Jake has taken every part and supercharged it – everything is changed or modified – it’s a hot rod – it’s a mutant – its something evil . And where is the beautiful orange paintwork ? Jake was listening to Black Sabbath – Master of Reality while he worked away – the orange is now hidden under Black and any accessories are purple . . .and silver . . . .Jake . . . .you scream . . .what have you done . . Uncle Jake !!!!
But Jake is dead . . . . . . . . no hang on that’s too sinister . . . .but Jake is asleep and can’t hear you , he’s crashed out in a chair – paint compressor still dangling in his hand .
So , what can you do – you get in your beloved car and turn the key . The sound of the engine fills your ears – its twice as loud as it used to be – the pedals work differently – the car moves like a rocket – but not just a rocket – a really nasty rocket ! You decide to call it . . The Interceptor !
Right , so you get the idea ?
Meet ‘The Interceptor ‘ Sola Sound MKIV 2021 , a nightmare of a pedal from the mind of David Main .
This is black sprayed over orange MKIV – can you imagine how cool this thing is going to look with a bit of road wear !!!
Inside , it has evolved from a MKIV but everything is sooped up – replacing the Darlington pair of front end germanium transistors is a high gain silicon BC179 . Our classic Mullard OC82Ds do the rest – that’s a pair in there looking like two green lagged water tanks – one of them is acting as a diode . The volume control reaches regular MKIV volumes at about 8 then goes berserk , the tone control isn’t really a tone control – no huge sweep like a normal MKIV – this is a non attenuated filter , borrowed from the really early Marhall Supa Fuzz MK1 . Everything about this pedal is a little crazy – like it was born in ’74 but hot rodded by a futuristic maniac in the 80s.
There are 40 of these for the World ( not enough )
