Within 5 minutes of turning this pedal on I had gone from a sparkling, subtle overdrive to a nice, dirty boost to a beautiful, blooming distortion. Give your single coils a little more hustle and your humbuckers a little spank, depending on your settings. If there is a tone to be had, you can find it in this little box.

From the first day we began making pedals in fall of 2010, we received requests to build clones of well known overdrives such as the Klon Centaur, Timmy, and Tube Screamer. We were never interested in pursuing that kind of work. Those great pedals are already out there, and for us to make something worthy of replacing one of them on our personal boards, it would take more than just putting our name on another maker’s design. We weren’t going to make and release an overdrive until we came up with our own thing that we liked even more.

After implementing an overdrive preamp in our Kilobyte® Lo-Fi delay, we decided to finally make our ultimate overdrive engine, the Haymaker™. Prepare to be shocked at its character, range, versatility, and power. Easily capable of going from open, glassy flavors of boost to classic overdrive sounds that sound like an extension of your amplifier character, Haymaker can then go even further into high gain territory. Three switchable modes allow you to decide how the pedal responds to a broad range of settings and changes with your pick attack and volume control. That’s what we mean by “dynamic drive”.

From transparent punch to touch-sensitive amp-like textures and fuzzy blast that’s rich in color, Haymaker has it all: it’s capable of stacking great and complementing your other drives, it’s made by hand in our small-batch distortery, and features a gorgeous powder coated 1590BB “big boy” enclosure with top-loading jacks to take up less pedalboard real estate. What are you waiting for, sound clips?

Controls:

Mode A is set for classic soft clipped overdrive, but with extra bass and gain available on top

Mode B is less compressed with more volume, and capable of clear, powerful output for slamming an amp

Mode C is hard clipped drive, capable of going into distorted and fuzzy textures at higher gain settings

PUNCH controls the amount of gain and drive in the circuit. More punch = more crunch

SHAPE refines the frequency response and amount of grit. Think of it as controlling how much "hair" is in the drive

STACKS is a low-pass filter that controls the amount of high-end treble content in the distorted output

The SPEAKER is the overall effected volume. Consider yourself warned - this pedal has a LOT of volume on top (especially in Mode B)

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