Description

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Crooked Axis is a simple yet super versatile, multipurpose gain device. Starting as a powerful clean booster with vintage flavoured feel and active bass & treble controls to drive any amplifier to natural break-up, it takes your tone through fat overdrive or raw, rugged, gritty distortion, into ear-melting fuzz territory and absolutely lo-fi deconstructed sounds.

It's core is based on the classic Colorsound Power Boost - a discrete transistor boost/overdrive design, praised by many seeking for either a powerful gain provider or just for it's original sound signature. Not many pedals can smash a tube amp with such power, deep bass and glassy treble as this one.

Top three knobs represent 'stock' Colorsound setup, while MASTER knob is an essential addition to let original circuit be set for distorted sounds at low output volume. BASS & TREBLE knobs are arranged after the drive section, so EQ shape final tone after desired amount of drive is achieved. RANGE knob is my extension to allow deeper voicing of the dirt character - it removes low frequencies from drive section, making distortion tighter and smoother, plus it can bring it to a clangy, grinding noise regions.

And there's one more thing to mention... the BLAST switch middle position. Neither it's engaged nor switched off. With most of DRIVE knob range it delivers saggy and loose overdrive with lower gain, but even fatter tone compared to BLAST 'on' setting. DRIVE maxed in this mode brings brass-like, throaty fuzz tone with panoply of lo-fi dimensions and random octave-down sound appearance.

Original Colorsound Power Boost was powered by two 9V batteries, while Crooked Axis requires 9V DC supply and uses internal voltage doubler circuit to attain 18V operation.

Controls:
- BASS & TREBLE - post-dirt active equalisation (turn CCW to cut, turn CW to boost)
- DRIVE - input gain control
- MASTER - master volume control
- BLAST - 'off' for classic boost response; 'on' for overdrive & fuzz response
- RANGE - pre-dirt bass control (maxed is full bass content, turn CCW to cut)

Demo: https://youtu.be/eS7U9lG4hEI?is=iM27vDDgRcBM9SCf