Harby 蜃気楼 Mirage distortion

Discovered in legend, circuitry reborn in detail. The Ibanez SK10 Visual Super Product 蜃気楼 distortion pedal was an oddity sold exclusively through just one Japanese music store between 1986 to 1989 — a shimmering anomaly branded as the “Sound from USA”. Faithfully reproduced from the original circuit, the Mirage returns as a rare glimpse into one of Ibanez’s most mysterious eras.

The SK10 Visual Super Product was an elusive Ibanez creation, produced in vanishingly small numbers for a single Japanese music store in the mid-1980s. Part of the short-lived “Visual Super Product – Sound from USA” experiment, it never appeared in catalogs or export lines, yet became legendary among collectors. With controls labeled Tube, EQ, Power, and the enigmatic Warp Selector, it offered touch-sensitive drive tones that felt more like a tube amp than a stompbox—clean when played lightly, roaring when you dig in. The pedal’s strange marketing language, minimal documentation, and cryptic aesthetic only deepened its mystique, cementing its reputation as one of the rarest and most fascinating Ibanez designs ever conceived.

Harby has meticulously reverse-engineered this mystery pedal from an original specimen, preserving its dual-op-amp topology, clipping character, and dynamic response. Every component value, bias point, and tone-shaping nuance has been faithfully recreated, while modern tolerances ensure consistency and reliability the 1980s units never had. Even the unique behavior of its gain structure—shifting between glassy articulation and saturated compression with pick attack—remains intact. The Mirage reacts like a living amplifier in miniature: articulate, reactive, and effortlessly expressive.

From a design perspective, this recreation pays homage not just to Ibanez’s forgotten experiment, but to the era’s willingness to take risks—when engineers treated every pedal as a testbed for sonic identity. We’ve captured that spirit of curiosity and wrapped it in our precision milled anodized aluminum enclosure.

The result is a revival of one of Ibanez’s rarest and most misunderstood circuits—an artifact of mythic origin, reborn for players who chase the impossible.

Specifications

• True to original audio signal path. Ooh la la!
• Gold plated circuitry, electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG).
• High precision Japanese and US ultra-low-noise thin-film resistors and class 1 capacitors.
• Genuine Texas Instruments NE5534 op-amp.
• NOS 2SC1815 and J201 transistors.
• True bypass with high quality soft-touch foot switch.
• Top mounted genuine Neutrik 1/4” – 6.35mm input/output jacks.
• Anodized enclosure and knobs milled from a solid block of aluminum.
• White standby light.
• Standard pedal center negative 2.1mm 9v DC power input.
• Made in the United States of America using domestic and imported parts.