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Here is a BBE pedal from one of our favourite pedal lines ever. The Crusher is a Marshall Plexi Gain distortion that pre-dates and possibly is the famed Guv'nor. According to Josh at JHS, who knows a few things about pedals, it not only is the identical circuit; it pre-dates the Guv'nor by three years (see article below). Either way, it's rad, like all BBE pedals. 3 band EQ, gain, volume give you plenty of tonal possibility. It's housed in a great looking, rock solid metal enclosure. This one is in great condition. Runs in standard 9v center negative power supply (not included).

Here is what Josh has to say...

The Crusher

I’m bringing up the Crusher by BBE because this is a BBE episode, but moving past that, it's very important that you know how good this pedal is. It simulates a high gain Marshall stack sound and it does it really, really well. To the point that it kind of blows my mind when you stack it up against pedals that cost four or five times what the Crusher goes for used on Reverb.

Now it comes with its own conspiracy. Unless you jumped into the article in the middle for some reason (in which case, welcome!), you know that we already had one conspiracy with the Orange Compressor, which means that we’re about to tackle a second conspiracy theory. With the same pedal company. In the same year.** I want you to know that this is a big deal for pedals. It's a big deal for our nation. It's a big deal for our planet Earth. You heard it first here.

**Dan Brown, if you’re still reading, I’ve got the sequel to The Main Squeeze Enigma ready for you. Working title: The Crusher Conundrum.

Let me tell you the story. Paul Gagan is the designer of this circuit. Now, he designed stuff for Fender, Charvel Jackson, and when working at Jackson in the mid-’80s he was messing around building pedal circuits. He would put them in little DIY closures and hand them out to famous bands as they came through the Jackson factory. Now this circuit, he says he designed in ’84, ’85 and was handing it out at that time, and then they released it at BBE in 2006. But keep ’85 in your mind because that's important.

We have the Marshall Governor coming in ‘88, which is an entirely different pedal made in England. Here’s the conspiracy: these circuits are identical. The circuit's the same, the sound's the same, and it's honestly kind of creepy. It's kind of X-Files. What's going on here? Paul Gagan says he designed it in ’85, was giving them away, and then Marshall releases the same exact circuit under the Governor, which is the sound of a stacked high gain Marshall, in ’88?

I don't know who came first and honestly, I don't care. I just love pedals and I want you to love pedals.

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