PEDALS DEAD MAN WALKING

"Dead Man Walking" is a result of many months of experimentation and tweaking. It was born out of the need to create a fuzz pedal that will retain some smoothness and clarity, but will have those mis-biased overtones to it. Its final circuit took form together with a twin circuit in tow - the one found in "Eat Your Heart Out". When experimenting, I came across two biasing patterns, or transistor arrangements - resulting in two kinds of tonal textures I liked best, but could not incorporate them into one circuit - with a switch to choose between them. So I decided to make another pedal. A sibling. Both pedals have that mis-biased nastiness in them. While "Eat Your Heart Out" offers smoother tone and a bit higher gain, "Dead Man Walking" has more grit, while being a mid-gain rather than a high-gain pedal. You can think of "Eat Your Heart Out" as Ian Gillain, nailing that smooth, over-sustained "Child in Time" vocalisation. "Dead Man Walking" on the other hand, would be Tom Waits, with his worn-out voice, yelling his songs into a microphone... through a megaphone.