Category: Effects

Based on the Naga Viper, which is in turn a usefully modified version of the classic Dallas Arbiter Rangemaster booster circuit. Besides retaining it’s vintage treble boosting characteristics, the Black Adder allows for the adjustment of the frequency range boosted, as well as the amount of dirt added when boosted. This opens up the possibility…

In the day, guitar players would listen to old timey Electric Blues Guitar and hear that overdriven sound. That’s because it WAS overdriven. Smaller amps in small studios, turned up nice and LOUD! When guys started going to larger and louder amps for bigger venues, they wanted that same “overdriven sound” at lower, or at…

Ivor David Arbiter (31 December 1929 – 26 July 2005) was an English drum designer, manufacturer, instrument salesman, and entrepreneur. Wikipedia. BTW He was the creator of the Beatles logo! He was also the creator/designer of the Dallas/Arbiter Fuzz Face. Aion FX has created an amazingly faithful replica PCB with a couple of twists.  We developed…

Ivor David Arbiter (31 December 1929 – 26 July 2005) was an English drum designer, manufacturer, instrument salesman, and entrepreneur. Wikipedia. BTW He was the creator of the Beatles logo! He was also the creator/designer of the Dallas/Arbiter Fuzz Face. Aion FX has created an amazingly faithful replica with a couple of twists. You can…

The Klon Centaur is an overdrive pedal made by the American engineer Bill Finnegan between 1994 and 2008. Finnegan hoped to create a pedal that would recreate the harmonically rich distortion of a guitar amplifier at a high volume. Finnegan struggled to meet demand, and used units sold for inflated prices. He made only around…

The latest from the Inner Sanctum… This is a pcb from a company I like called PCB Pedals. It’s essentially a clone of the highly regarded Jangle Box. With a lot of labor, much love, obsession, persistance, diligence, and insanity, I can build this for less than 1/2 the going rate. I can also be…

Many of you who view my facebook page and have some interest in guitar stuff, know that I’ve been fooling around with building some guitar pedals. A couple of them are standouts that need to be marketed. Here’s one of the first… The Sensei Drive is based on the Hermedia Zendrive now owned and sold…

Not 2, not 4, but 8 clipping diodes! WHY? In the day guitarists wanted the sound of a particular UK “Stack” turned up all the way, yet keep their leases. The Marshall Blues Breaker pedal was borne of that deep desire. Using a board from Aiion FX and populated with THE BEST, hand selected components…

This is a hand built pedal by me, Todd L. McCagg. It is a sonic replica of a Centaur Klon Parallel Overdrive.

This pedal is a faithful repro of the original 808 Tube Screamer. Users of the original include: Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Edge, John Mayer, Kirk Hammet, George Lynch, and 1,000s more. (these fellow also used TS-9s and 10s but this is the one everyone seeks).