Enigmatone Transparent Overdrive Handwired Guitar Pedal

Enigmatone is back, after a many year hiatus!

I will be making the Transparent Overdrive once again in small batches, available periodically, for the foreseeable future.

Same great circuit! Improved construction/parts; new professionally finished and printed enclosures in brown sparkle. Wired and constructed by hand, as always, in my small Wisconsin shop.

Thank you!

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I've built many clones of different popular overdrive pedals over the years. And after years of building and modding and tweaking these classic designs I've noticed that not one of these pedals fully fit my playing style - most had too much gain, and colored the sound considerably (even the ones marketed as transparent), some were too fizzy and buzzy, and pretty much all of them cut the low end to some degree. 

So I set out to design a pedal from ground up that is fully transparent, has fairly low gain, and behaves like a tube amp when pushed. It uses very very little filtering, and is fairly natural and organic in response. It doesn't cut any bass, and filters out just the very harshest treble harmonics. Each guitar sounds like itself through this pedal. When the gain is all the way down the volume knob can get about 25db of clean boost. The tone knob behaves like a presence or brightness control, cutting or boosting only the higher treble frequencies. This was done to preserve the transparency and to eliminate any honk or muffled sound. 

The knob layout is as follows: top left - volume, top right - gain, bottom left - presence. The pedal can is powered by a standard 9V power supply.

I hand craft pedals in very small batches, using only the best components.