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Once again my hubris brought me here. The Bass Amp Grinder is a ground up reinterpretation of the classic Rat distortion. Making homages is new for us but our customers have been asking for something like this for a while now. I normally refuse to give the people what they want but here we are. Strange times indeed.

This is a classic 4-stage hand warmer fuzz design. We didn't aim to break any ground. We just wanted to make a thick punishing bass fuzz. When designing the amazing Pet Symmetry "BIG" fuzz we auditioned a lot of sounds and I squirreled a few away in my diary.

Ultimate Versatility Uncompromised Tone The Damnation Audio MOSFET Bass Distortion, simply referred to as the MBD, is the long awaited follow up to our original Damnation Audio MBD-1 and MBD2 bass overdrive and distortion pedals. The heart of the MBD is the same bass-loving distortion as the original, but with a few enhancements customers have longed for. Those enhancements include a boost footswitch with a boost control providing over 30dB of additional gain and the inclusion of our newly designed contoured clean blend. The amazing sounding clean blend already smooth and precise depth and tone controls leads us to confidently state that the MBD is one of the best bass overdrive and distortion pedals on the market. Friends don’t let friends play clean bass!

Ultimate Versatility Uncompromised Tone The Damnation Audio MOSFET Bass Distortion, simply referred to as the MBD, is the long awaited follow up to our original Damnation Audio MBD-1 and MBD2 bass overdrive and distortion pedals. The heart of the MBD is the same bass-loving distortion as the original, but with a few enhancements customers have longed for. Those enhancements include a boost footswitch with a boost control providing over 30dB of additional gain and the inclusion of our newly designed contoured clean blend. The amazing sounding clean blend already smooth and precise depth and tone controls leads us to confidently state that the MBD is one of the best bass overdrive and distortion pedals on the market. Friends don’t let friends play clean bass!

"Get the name of the dog" is bit of old newspaper wisdom about how the little details in a story are what draw the reader in and make for a compelling story. In that spirit, Get the Name of the Dog the overdrive pedal is all about the small details. In this completely discrete transistor overdrive you will find multiple voicing options to shape chunky low and mid gain tones, flexibility to boost and tighten an amp for powerful rock tones, and a level of dynamic range and amp-like feel that's missing from traditional soft clipping opamp overdrives.

In the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, when everyone was stuck at home making sourdough and wiping down groceries with Clorox and picking up new hobbies out of boredom, I spent a couple months tracing and building clones of all the analog Boss distortion pedals in my collection. I wanted to pick them all apart and see what made them do what they do while also doing many hours of relaxing PCB design work and a whole lot of soldering. What came out of that project was a deep interest in simple discrete opamps like the architecture Boss has used in roughly a dozen different products starting with the OD-2 in 1985. It has appeared in hits like the BD-2, OD-3, and FZ-2, as well as more obscure cult classics like the MZ-2, PW-2 and MD-2. It is one of the fascinating elements that has tied a wide range of disparate Boss products together over the last 40 years.

Soft Rains and the Smell of the Ground is a big washy textural reverb pedal that can sound pretty and lush and also sound brash and chaotic. It features a momentary feedback loop that can sustain reverb trails into a long evolving smeared pad or swell into blasts of feedback and walls of sound. Soft Rains is great for running into distortion pedals to fill out a lot of space in a mix and make the spaces between notes feel full of life and movement. Its the pedal I wanted for a new band where I want to play fewer notes but have them feel like there is much more going on. Plus the name is a reference to a Ray Bradbury poem and that's fun and educational. 

Replace the faceplate on your pedal and re-program it to a different model. All pedals in the Daedalus product line share the same underlying hardware platform. While this is common practice among multiple manufacturers, it is rare that they give you the opportunity to fully re-utilize your existing hardware, and convert it into an entirely different product. But at Ghost Note Audio, we do things different. We want our customers to be able to make the most of the products they buy from us, and that means allowing the end user the freedom to fully re-program their pedal, and turn it into any effect we have in our line-up.

Replace the faceplate on your pedal and re-program it to a different model. All pedals in the Daedalus product line share the same underlying hardware platform. While this is common practice among multiple manufacturers, it is rare that they give you the opportunity to fully re-utilize your existing hardware, and convert it into an entirely different product. But at Ghost Note Audio, we do things different. We want our customers to be able to make the most of the products they buy from us, and that means allowing the end user the freedom to fully re-program their pedal, and turn it into any effect we have in our line-up.

Replace the faceplate on your pedal and re-program it to a different model. All pedals in the Daedalus product line share the same underlying hardware platform. While this is common practice among multiple manufacturers, it is rare that they give you the opportunity to fully re-utilize your existing hardware, and convert it into an entirely different product. But at Ghost Note Audio, we do things different. We want our customers to be able to make the most of the products they buy from us, and that means allowing the end user the freedom to fully re-program their pedal, and turn it into any effect we have in our line-up.

Amverb The reverb of 90s dance music Amverb has received a major update The pedal now runs 16-bit algorithms from the legendary Alesis Midiverb II

3 Bit Fuzz Untamed sonic mayhem 3 Bit Fuzz is an experimental, multi-band bitcrusher. It's our attempt to do something a little bit different, and take some risk and try making an actually original pedal.

Codename X81 Preamp and Distortion Pedal What happens when you take a Valvestate 8100, and conduct unholy experiments on it with the goal of turning it into the most unforgiving chug-machine ever conceived? You end up with Codename X81 - our hardest hitting preamp to date... and today, the experiment escaped the lab.

ICBM Solid State Preamplifier Please note; This is a preamplifier, and not a distortion pedal. Read more about this below. Based on the Randall* Warhead X2.

Swirls An entire 80s rack in a pedal

Designed to capture the dark, aggressive character of doom metal, this hybrid preamp and distortion pedal delivers a gritty, heavily textured drive with a fuzzy, blown-out quality. The result is a dense, aggressive sound well suited to slow, heavy riffs and saturated low-end tones. A powerful 3-band active EQ provides a wide adjustment range, allowing the pedal to move from thick, bass-heavy sounds to more focused and cutting tones. An integrated boost further tightens the response while adding compression, saturation and sustain.

Inversions Analogue Fuzz Pedal Inversions is our take on the famed Big Muff tone - but with a big twist.

Omega Lead Solid State Preamplifier