*NEW* JSA Effects - Nightingale Drive

This is a new pedal, built by our incredibly talented local friend - Just Some Audio Effects. Known for hits such as the Hot Toddy, Porta IV and Hippohotamus pedals, JSA creates insanely good effects at very realistic prices, with an unparalleled attention to detail! We're proud to be offering some of his creations in-store & online. 

*Please note that these are all individually hand made, so each one may have slightly different variations in the colour compared to our photos*

Here's what JSA has to say about the Nightingale -

"Nightingale Drive" - a low gain, discrete op amp overdrive, which answers the question "What if you combine the Boss Bluesdriver with the Marshall Bluesbreaker?"

Most of the guitar world is now all too aware of the legendary Bluesbreaker - and for good reason; it is a phenomenal low gain overdrive - and over the past 5 years there have been as many Bluesbreaker clones as there have tube screamers and Klones! So why build another Bluesbreaker pedal? Well, because this is something more than just another clone; this is a discrete op amp reworking, which results in a much more dynamic, more open tone, that let's the Bluesbreaker circuit sing out like it always should have! In other words, the Nightingale Drive is to the Bluesbreaker what my "Hot Toddy" is to the Timmy.

By using the Boss style discrete op amp in a Bluesbreaker style circuit, the tone and feel become much more like an amp-in-a-box. I've also added in the input buffer from the Nobels ODR1 - this is wired like a traditional tube amp input with no coupling cap, which also helps with the feel of the pedal, and how it reacts to other pedals going in to it (this sounds amazing with a boost or mid forward overdrive before it) - as well as the "Presence" control from the King of Tone, but as an external control rather than an internal trimpot, as this really helps balance out the high end, or turn if fully left for vintage Bluesbreaker style tones.

I could go on and on about the "Nightingale Drive", but instead I'll just say this; I own far too many pedals, and 95% of them are overdrive and boost pedals, yet this and the Hot Toddy are literally my two favourite overdrive pedals ever, and the prototype has lived on my board for well over a year now, which is unheard of.