SOLIDGOLD FX "76 MK II"

While the Western world was preoccupied with smooth and soulful Fuzz Faces and Muffs, the Orient was bubbling up with gnarly mystical fuzzes, heavily imparted with earthshaking Godzilla DNA. This very distinct era in fuzz history gave us many treasures that have been rightfully crowned fuzz legends: the Univox Super Fuzz, Ibanez Standard Fuzz, Ace Tone Fuzz Master, Shin-Ei Companion and several others.

Just like its predecessor, the SolidGoldFX 76 MKII offers up a comprehensive guided tour to the best that the Standard Fuzz and its ilk has to offer without any of the drawbacks. On face value, the improved 76 MKII gives you a multi-voiced fuzz unit that offers loads of octave-up snarl and clang, at the same time as ruthlessly pummeling your amp with hair and fangs. 

Main Features:

• Silicon Octave Fuzz pedal
• Inspired by the Ibanez Standard Fuzz circuit - for maximum fuzz awesomeness
• Uses a JFET Preamp stage and a quartet of high-gain Toshiba transistors (new)
• Octave bypass switch - intended to tame the wild
• Dual independent Texture and Color tone stacks for precision audio sculpting
• Color control sweeps a low pass filter on the output to tame highs and woolly up the tone
• Texture control sweeps the mid-range for many flavours of Fuzz
• Soft-touch relay true bypass switching and top-mounted jacks
• Made in Montreal, Canada 
• Powered by 9V DC PSU

 

SOLIDGOLD FX "Supafunk"

Designed for some serious stank, the Supa Funk is an old-school, dual-band envelope filter, but with some totally modern twists! Featuring a responsive and articulate attack generator plus an expanded control set, it also features our new Color knob that blends in a second low-pass filter to help you to go from a classic bom-chicka-wow-wow funk, all the way to rich, throaty and vocal filter sweeps.  

Main Features

• Dual blendable low pass filters
• Tuneable analog envelope generator with depth, frequency and sensitivity controls
• Direction switch for forward or reverse sweeps
• Suitable for guitar, bass, synth/keys and other electronic applications
• All analog audio path
• True bypass switching and top-mounted jacks - for ease of pedalboard mounting
• Made in Montreal, Canada
• Powered by a regular 9V DC PSU

 

SOLID GOLD FX "Funk Lite Evelope Filter"

If your mothership has touched down on planet Funkatron and you’re not sporting a quality envelope filter, it’ll be a long time before your tone blasts off. If you need the finest quack on the market, we have the juice. We call it the Funk Lite.

The Funk Lite contains the envelope core from our all-encompassing Funkzilla, preserving all the fresh funk and powerful envelope generation you’d come to expect from one of our quackboxes. Unlike many filters that skimp on the features, we give you everything you need with a sublime sweep for each knob and some extra bells.

The core of the Funk Lite contains the only three controls that you need: Depth, Freq(uency) and Attack. A toggle switch changes the direction of the sweep, giving you everything from deep dubby sloshes to Zappa filter stabs and everything in between.

Depth adjusts the intensity of the filter sweep, from shallow cuts to deep scallops, while the Freq control adjusts the center frequency of the sweep. The Attack control adjusts two parameters at once—the sensitivity of the filter opening and the decay of the overall tone. As you might expect, these three controls are incredibly interactive, with a multitude of funktions on tap.

The Funk Lite is perfectly voiced to squash any unwanted high peaks or rough envelope artifacts, and is engineered to accept line- or instrument-level signals from guitar and bass to keys and anything else you can think of. Combine all this with an all-analog signal path and true bypass switching, and you have a funk box worth talking about.

SOLID GOLD FX" Athena Vibraphase"

Athena; daughter of Zeus. She’s recognized as strong, yet merciful, she has at least some roots in music, having invented the aulos, a double-reeded flute-like instrument. She’s the goddess of wisdom, war, and in our case, handicraft. She’s also the half-sister of Apollo, which coincidentally shares its name with an awesome phaser we make.

Our Athena vibra-phase unit fittingly contains two of the four stages of the Apollo, giving you the juicy, chewy swoosh of our full-featured with a little less brashness and with tons of character to spare. However, like the goddess herself, Athena is much more than a simple feature set and design parameters.

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: A Uni-Vibe is essentially a souped up phaser. Well, yes and no. While they are topologically similar, the Uni-Vibe requires a little more fine tuning—asymmetric tuning in this case. Athena has all that. It’s perfectly voiced to hold court with the rest of your effects and your instrument’s natural tone. In short: It’s highly musical and dynamic, just like your playing.

Speed, depth, level—these come standard. But where the Athena really earns its keep is in its mode and color switches. The mode switch lets you change between different levels of blending to let a little or a lot of wet signal through. One mode position sets Athena to manual mode, where an optional expression pedal lets you manipulate the sweep of Athena without having to bow.

Color gives you three levels of oomph that push the Uni-Vibe character into overdrive, essentially giving you a high, medium and low amount of throb for some truly inspiring textures. Adding Athena to any of your solos or chordal work is an excellent idea, dredging up rich harmonics while generating serious spatial movement. It’s time to pay tribute to your tone.

SOLIDGOLD FX "Surf Rider III - Spring Rider" (SOLD)

Reverb purists often point to amp reverb as being the pinnacle of spring reverb. That may be all well and good, but what if your amp just doesn’t have reverb? What if your amp’s reverb isn’t good? What if you want more options after a simple “level” control? It is time to ride the waves into the Surf Rider III.

The Surf Rider III is the ‘verb sound that Fender’s engineers would have put into their Deluxes and Vibroverbs if they had access to today’s technology. Our finest ‘verb box gives you that familiar Level control but then adds a plethora of options, including a boost and some nifty resonance features that adds some juice to your tank without the springs.

Versatility is the name of the Surf Rider’s game. The Level control is just the beginning, adjusting the amount of reverb in the total signal. The Surf Rider also offers a Depth knob that adjusts the intensity of the reverberations, for some hauntingly huge verbs that fill the room. The expression jack on the side overrides this control, should you feel so inclined.

The Decay control increases the size of the virtual reverb tank, opening up the pedal and giving you verb tones that go on seemingly forever. Speaking of tones, there’s a handy Tone knob that brightens or darkens the reverb signal, which helps tame harsh pickups or beef up flimsy ones. It’s especially helpful if the Surf Rider III is your only pedal—a splendid idea.

The Resonance switch unlocks the “drippiness” of the reverb tank, giving you a lot (upper position), a little (lower position) or none at all (center). Cracking open the Surf Rider III gives you a trimpot to set the lower level for just the right amount of splash.

The Boost section lets you boost or cut the reverb level. With the LED on, the pedal is in Hi mode, and off is Lo mode. There’s another internal trimmer that lets you dial in Lo mode. Surf’s up.