Sense Pedals

What is a gain stage?

One transistor, four resistors, two capacitors: the 1968 EHX LPB-1

circuit-analysis

history

Every pedal on your board is built from gain stages. A Big Muff chains four of them. A Tube Screamer folds one around an op-amp. Whatever gets dissected on this site later…

Seven years is too long

How a waiting list started a workshop

workshop

The King of Tone is a dual overdrive, built by hand at Analog Man in Connecticut. Among transparent overdrives it is the reference — the pedal other pedals get described…