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These new micro pedals from Pigtronix are aimed at players who want to maximize space on their pedalboards, without compromising sonic performance or tone-shaping ability.
These new micro pedals from Pigtronix are aimed at players who want to maximize space on their pedalboards, without compromising sonic performance or tone-shaping ability. All are 100% analog and they feature true-bypass switching, LED indicators, metal enclosures measuring approximately 1.5” x 3.5”, and front-mounted jacks for external 9v-18v power supplies (sold separately; battery power is not an option with these boxes).
CLASS A BOOST
Featuring a discrete, JFET transistor circuit that accepts instrument or line-level signals and delivers up to 20dB of clean boost (with the option of increased headroom when fed 18 volts), the Class A Boost ($89 street) is useful for driving distortion, overdrive, or fuzz pedals into greater saturation, or for giving delay and/or modulation devices extra oomph to cut through a band mix. Placed either before or after other effects, the pedal’s wide-ranging Level control affords everything from slight volume goosing to make up for any signal loss incurred by a chain of pedals, or, when turned way up, it was great for pushing vintage tube amps into more distortion than they could generate on their own. The Class A Boost doesn’t increase treble or noise—or in any other way color the sound of your rig—it just gives you more of it, which is what a good booster should do.
Kudos Clean, clear volume boost and nothing else.
Concerns None.
GATE KEEPER
Designed to eliminate noise from your system when you’re not playing, this micro version Gate Keeper ($99 street) has a Threshold control that sets how much input signal is needed to open the analog gating circuit. The higher the input level, the lower the