Tremond - distortion & overdrive

Classic guitar distortion and the most versatile bass tool? Here you go. Tremond begins as distortion based on a famous rodent pedal. Carefully tuned for consistent sound with true vintage vibe with that creamy/juicy mids, tight attack and recognisable 'sag' at high gain settings of early bigbox/whiteface versions.

Obviously it's equipped with the iconic LM308n integrated circuit. Additional feature is clipping mode switch to replace stock silicon diodes (classic, high gain sound) with asymmetrical LED + germanium combo (for more crunchy, kinda 'clear breakup' feel, great for lower gain settings or additional boost at high gain), or to omit clipping diodes (to provide huge load of pure op-amp distorted sound).

Magic starts with Tremond's blending possibilities. Mix in any amount of your 'clean' signal with the blend knob. Need to roll in only low-end from the guitar tone? No problem, there's a BOOST LPF knob, which gradually rolls off treble and mid content from clean signal and boosts low-end - so basically it is a bass boost knob. Moreover, the 'clean' channel is not really a true dry - it is a mosfet booster to deliver extra gain to spend. It is also not really a clean and sparkle sounding as most mosfet boost pedals. It warms up the tone and rolls off good amount of the treble, also adding a bit of compression and breakup with hot pickups or heavy playing - all of this to provide dark, fat sound that's a perfect match for the distortion channel. There's a trimpot inside to increase gain of the boost, what makes it a warm, massive-sounding overdrive. So you get two complementary, differently voiced pedals in one box with the blend knob for a true wall of sound. Fancy, isn't it?

Gritty boost? Check. Tone enhncer, simple EQ? Check. Generic retro drive with lot of mids? Check. Modern midscooped and sparkling distortion? Device turning any instrument into a kickass tone ripper? That's right. Anything else? You name it, Tremond makes it for you.

NO BATTERY OPERATION POSSIBLE WITH THIS PEDAL. Feed it only with standard 9V DC negative center power supply.

CONTROLS:
DISTORTION - yeah, you know
TONE - rolls off treble content at DISTORTION channel when turned CCW
M. VOLUME - master volume for both BOOST and DISTORTION channels
BLEND - blends BOOST (dark mosfet booster/overdrive, CCW) and DISTORTION (CW) channels
BOOST LPF - sets cut-off frequency and bass boost level of BOOST channel
AS/off/SI - switches different clipping options of DISTORTION channel (SI - stock RAT-style silicon diodes, off - no diodes, AS - asymmetric array of LED and germanium diodes)

INTERNAL CONTROLS:
trimmer - sets gain of BOOST channel (CW turn for more dirt and output volume)

NEW VERSION UPDATE:
All units available from Oct 22nd 2024 have increased available output volume by 6dB (so it's possible to set it for larger volume boost) and no longer come with internal brittle DIP switch. These mods have been already default in mini version.

There's also mini version available at separate product page.