Compulsive Distortion Kit
34,00€
Get the tone of your favorite amp without having to crank it all the way up! With the Compulsive Distortion kit you’ll build a pedal that sounds like an overdriven tube amplifier at a room volume. Incredibly dynamic-responsive thanks to its mosfet clipping, the Compulsive Distortion reacts nicely to how hard you pick the strings.
The Compulsive Distortion kit has four knobs that let you set it as a distortion, a booster or even a driver in front of a real amp to push it hard into overdrive.
The Compulsive Distortion emulates the dynamics and harmonics of a wound tube amplifier and the typical output stage distortion it produces. It sounds a lot like finding the sweet spot in your amp while staying at living room volumes. Besides, the Compulsive Distortion works also great as a booster or as a driver in front of your actual amplifier.
Thanks to using mosfets instead of diodes for the clipping, the Compulsive Distortion delivers an open sounding tone and is great in picking up playing dynamics: the difference between a soft and an aggressive picking will lead to a wide range of uncompressed distortion than a diode-clipped pedal would.
– Volume sets the amount of global volume of the pedal, up to ~+20dB of gain!
– Drive sets the amount of distortion of the pedal.
– Tone controls the amount of high frequencies of the pedal.
– The LP/HP Switch alternates between low peak and high peak. In high peak you get an increased distortion through the range of the Drive knob, as well as more volume and a light mids boost. In low peak the sound remains like the original with almost no tone coloration.
Download here the manual for the Compulsive Distortion Kit:
Compulsive Distortion Audio demos
Guitar (low gain, lp switch off):
Guitar (low gain, lp switch on):
Guitar (medium gain):
Guitar (high gain):
Bass (medium gain):
| Weight | 100 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | N/A |
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AlexisKestelyn (verified owner) –
Just finished building this kit, sounds amazing!
It was my first build, but i had some experience with soldering iron tho. Everything went well, almost on the first time, after i realized i soldered the output jack on the wrong way ^^’.
However, i had some issues with the components : the led was brocken when got the pedal, and the LP/HP litteraly broke when i tried to tighten it to the enclosure.. doubt about the quality of this component..
If i can give you a piece of advice, solder all the potentiometre, output/input jacks and everything that mounts on the enclosure once you’ve mounted those components to the enclosure. Otherwise you will have a real mess of cables!
Over all, if you are meticulous and follow the instructions, you should have no issue and you will for sure enjoy the sound!