This pedal will transform your guitar rig!
Don't let the Vertex Boost MKII's name fool you–it's much more than a mere boost. Make no mistake, this multifunction guitar pedal can function as a gain booster, with +16dB of ultra-transparent gain that can either drive your amp into saturation or give your solos a squeaky-clean level bump, depending on where you choose to deploy it. Able to accommodate both line- and instrument-level signals, the Boost MKII also includes ultra-linear input/output buffers that are guaranteed to elevate the sound of your entire rig. This stompbox's buffers can propel a typical mid-level rig into pro-level territory with zero tonal coloration. And if your rig is already 99% of the way there, the Boost MKII will deliver that elusive missing 1%. Beyond that, the Boost MKII's insert jack enables you to adjust your volume via an external treadle-style pedal while keeping your guitar's signal completely isolated–it's like plugging straight into your amp. Boasting a compact enclosure that's 33% slimmer than its predecessor, the Vertex Boost MkII belongs on every tone-obsessed guitarist's pedalboard.
OFFERS MORE THAN +16DB OF EXTRA GAIN WITH ZERO SONIC COLORATION
While the Boost MKII offers a myriad of useful functions, it's a clean booster pedal at heart. Its straightforward Level knob ranges from unity gain to a healthy +16dB. Placing the Boost MKII in front of your amp or dirt boxes adds saturation and sustain to your signal, while placing it after your preamp and dirt boxes gives you a full-range level increase. Best off all, the Boost MKII doesn't change the tone of anything that comes before it's sonically invisible.
INPUT AND OUTPUT BUFFERS OPTIMIZE YOUR SIGNAL PATH FOR MAXIMUM TONE
Guitarists are always searching for new ways to elevate the sound of their rig. Thanks to its top-shelf input and output buffers, the Vertex Boost MKII will do just that. How can a set of buffers transform a noisy, novice-sounding rig into a quiet, pro-level one? For starters, these buffers condition your rig's entire analog signal path, ensuring optimal input and stable output. They also exhibit an unprecedented level of linearity, while ensuring zero coloration of your signal–even with dozens of stompboxes in your chain. The Boost MKII's input buffer compensates for pickups with different impedances, ensuring that both single-coil- and humbucker-equipped guitars retain every ounce of their tone, while its output buffer tackles arena-sized cable runs like a a champ. Got a hissy, interference-prone passive effects loop? Not anymore – the Boost MKII will convert it into a max-quality, whisper-quiet active loop.
CONTROL YOUR VOLUME WITH AN EXTERNAL VOLUME OR EXP PEDAL
On the rear of the Boost MKII, you'll find a 1/8-inch TRS insert. This enables you to control your volume using an external treadle-style pedal. When the Boost
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| Price | $199.99 |
VERTEX BUFFERS NOW AVAILABLE TO THE MASSES!
For over a decade, every buffer that's come out of Vertex Effects has been custom made, bespoke, for the pedalboard it was designed for or the customer that ordered it. Needless to say, our buffers were very limited, with only a few hundred made over the last ten years. Over that time, and through hundreds of custom buffer interfaces being made, several common applications for buffer combinations and routing emerged as the most common uses as it comes to placing buffers on a pedalboard for the most optimal results. Routing schemes such as mono, stereo, audition loops (inserts), four-cable method, five-cable method, and wet/dry/wet were all common requests from our customers, but there was never an all-in-one solution that provided all of these options for buffering and routing your pedalboard in a pedalboard-friendly enclosure – until now.
Introducing the Vertex Buffer Interfaces and Buffer Modules. The first all-in-one solution that covers 99% of all pedalboard routing options, whether you have multiple amps, amps with effects loop, a wet/dry/wet rig, an impedence sensitive fuzz, or want to side-chain pedals off the board in the middle of your signal path with an insert loop, these boxes have a solution for you that won't compromise on tone.
WHY ARE OUR BUFFERS BETTER?
Firstly, our buffers are designed to have no sound of their own – totally transparent, no color, no EQ, no distortion – just your tone as though you plugged your guitar directly into your amp with a 10ft cable (even if you're running a dozen or more pedals between the guitar and amp with over 100 ft. of cable). So often buffers in our industry will be described by the manufacturers with words like “warm” or “fat” when really the buffer should NOT be imparting anything to the sound other than 1) loading the guitar pickups properly with the same loading as your guitar would see if plugged into a tube amp and 2) converting the signle to low impedence, driving the line so it is the least susceptible to environmental factors that might alter the tone. Unfortunately, 99% of the buffers available on the market don't do this – they add a color to the signal and lack the proper specifications to dive even 20 feet of cable without introducing artifacts into the sound.
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| Price | $249.99 |
The Ultraphonix Special Overdrive MKII delivers the blooming midrange and screaming overdrive of the ultra-rare American boutique amplifiers that players have been coveting for decades. This overdrive emulates the the expansive midrange and strident cascading gain stages of the D*lightful amplifier this pedal is based on. When you turn it on, it will unleash your guitar's full-throated potential with an articulate attack and smooth sustain that's reminiscent of players like Robben Ford and Larry Carlton. If you're a tone chaser, the Ultraphonix MKII Specialized Overdrive pedal will help you achieve the D-style tone you've been dreaming of that doesn't require a mortgage to purchase!
Features include:
• Voiced alongside four Dumble™ ODS amps ranging from 19070s-1990s
• Quintessential D*style tone, note bloom & harmonic overtones
• 100% analog circuitry
• Mechanical “true bypass” switching
• 9VDC center-negative power operation (adapter not included)
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| Price | $199.99 |
When it comes to Bluesy cleans and fat lead tones, the Vertex Effects Steel String Supreme (Slight Return Edition) – based on serial #001 of a legendary six-figure Dumble Steel String Singer – is the only tone shaper you'll need in your arsenal. Whether you're front-ending a stage amp with the Supreme expanded all-analog preamp, feeding a little D-style sugar into your Amp Modeler, or even running straight into a Cab Simulator/IR Loader, this pedal is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Just like the amp it's named after, the Steel String Supreme (Slight Return Edition) is characterized by a fat and glassy tones sound that absolutely marinates signals in tubelike harmonics as you ramp up the gain. The Slight Return Edition's active EQ and Bright/Deep + Rock/Jazz switches add new tone-shaping capabilities from the original SSS and bring you a bit more available top end “glass” and a little more low-end “Snap” to this latest addition to the Steel String family. From subtle fattening and clean compression to full-on overdrive, the Vertex Effects Slight Return Edition is the next best thing to having the real-deal SSS in your rig.
Players like Eric Johnson, John Mayer, and Santana have all sung the praises of a rare 100-watt 6L6 blues machine that achieved legendary status in the mid-1980s. And whether it's the ultimate cleans that you're searching for or a lead tone with slight overdrive but tons of BODY the Vertext Steel String Supreme (Slight Return Version – successor to the Steel String MKI Slight Return Version is packing 500% more tone-shaping potential – faithfully captures that “SSS” (that's “Sparkle, Squish, and Saturation”) magic in a pedalboard-friendly stomp.
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| Price | $249.99 |
Based on Stevie Ray's Legendary Dumble Clean Tone
When it comes to SRV-style glassy clean and fat lead tones, the Vertex Effects Steel String SSS SRV (Slight Return Version) Mini – based on serial #001 of a legendary six-figure Dumble Steel String Singer – may be one of the BEST ways to impart D-style clean tone to your favorite amplifier.
D-Style Cleans with Some Texas Flair
With gain settings below 1:00, the SSS SRV Mini makes a highliy versatile fat boost, with an active midrange “FILTER” EQ section to dial in that D-style midrange shaping your instrument demands. Above 1:00, the SRV sweetens your signal with vine-ripened drive characteristics matured in the Texas sun. Wide open, this pedal packs enough juicy gain to take you well into overdrive territory. All the while, true bypass operation preserves your dry signal whenever you don't have the SRV engaged – though, if you're anything like us Stevie Ray fanatics, it's pretty much a nonissue, since you'll never want to turn this thing off.
Steel String SSS SRV Mini Features:
• Based on model #001 of an original run of legendary 6L6 blues machines
• A true amp in a box – designed to impart the D-style clean tone to your amp
• Inspiring glossy touch sensitivity, warmth, and low-end snap
• Versatile Gain and Level controls make this a capable clean boost or full-on overdrive
•Re-shaped EQ with the Rock/Jazz switch for the perfect “Texas Tone”
• Rugged steel housing
• Authentic D-style asthetics
• True bypass switching
• Designed in California
• 9-18VVDC operation (center negative)
• Dimensions: 4.5″ x 2.2″ x 1.8″
• Weight: 1.0 lbs
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| Price | $199.99 |
The T Drive is a sonic recreation of the legendary Trainwreck™ Express amplifier. Rooted in the tradition of British amps from the '60s & '70s, Trainwrecks are famous for their fast pick response and exceptional dynamics that range from chimey “Vox” style cleans, to a soaring “Plexi” overdrive. To most accurately recreate the harmonic complexity of the Trainwreck amps in a stompbox, we took painstaking measures to find a “real deal” Trainwreck Express to compare for sonic accuracy. Additionally, longtime Trainwreck owners were consulted for guidance, providing us with recordings and feedback on A/B comparisons between their Trainwreck amplifiers and our T Drive Prototype. Our quest to create the the most accurate “Wreck in a box” has resulted in the T Drive: a pedal with dynamics, harmonic complexity, and “voice-like” overtones reminiscent of the amp it was inspired by.
Features include:
• Designed alongside a “real deal” Trainwreck™ amplifier
• Superior dynamics from chimey Vox cleans, to soaring Plexi dirt
• Ultra sensitive pick attack and response
• True Bypass
• Assembled in California
• 9-18VDC center-negative power operation (adapter not included)
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| Price | $199.99 |
Players like SRV, Eric Johnson, and John Mayer have been singing the praises of a rare 100-watt 6L6 Dumble Amp, the Steel String Singer, that achieved legendary status in the mid-1980s. And whether you're looking for a taste of Texas sweet tea or a return to Gravity, the Vertex Steel String Clean Drive MkII – now 33% slimmer and with an added trick up its sleeve – faithfully captures that “SSS” magic using an actual Dumble Steel String Singer #001. The Steel String MkII is dead-simple in its operation yet matchless in its rootsy mojo. With gain settings below 1:00, the Steel String Clean Drive MkII makes an incredibly versatile clean boost, with a Filter control to dial in how much of that D-style midrange shaping your instrument demands. Above 1:00, the Steel String Clean Drive MkII begins to sweeten your signal with vine-ripened drive characteristics matured in the California sun. Wide open, this pedal virtually breathes fire, with enough juicy gain to take you from Flavor Town well into Brown County.
Features include:
• Dumble SSS tone from a compact stompbox
• Based on model #001 of an original Dumble SSS amp
• 33% slimmer and lighter than the original Steel String
• New Jazz/Rock toggle thickens up cleans and tightens up drive tones
• Optional 9 to 18VDC operation (adapter not included)
• True Bypass
• Designed & Assembled in California
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| Price | $199.99 |
The Tone Secret (TS) is the answer to the love/hate relationship countless guitarists have with a particular screaming green overdrive pedal that originated in late 1970s Japan. The Tone Secret recreates the sonic DNA of the most iconic users of the green screamer heard on countless studio recordings and live performances without the need for a cranked mid-scooped amplifier to run the pedal into. The TS only utilizes 50% of the gain found in a traditional green OD pedal; however, the added pre-overdrive and post overdrive controls allow you to tweak the OD characteristics to match any amplifier and simulate amp break-up without dime-ing the “DRIVE” knob on your pedal. Additionally, we've added individual controls for treble and mid-range frequencies, along with our “GRIT” control to dial in the ratio of your amp's natural break-up in tandem with the overdrive produced by the Tone Secret. If you're looking for a screaming OD pedal that nails the classic and contemporary sounds heard on your favorite records, look no further than the Tone Secret. Features include:
• DNA of a classic “Screamer” hitting a “Blackface” 12AX7 preamp
• Super versatile drive voicing with Pre-Vol, Grit, & Master Vol controls
• True Bypass
• Designed in California
• 9VDC center-negative power operation (adapter not included)
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| Price | $219.99 |
