CarolineGuitarCo | 8 months ago
We're pumped about this thing. It sounded genuinely great in the room. And before I'd tracked these parts through this pedal and the HiWatt, I'd recorded practice/scratch tracks with some emulator and DEAR GOD THE REAL PEDAL AND AMP SOUNDED SO MUCH BETTER.
While it would have been easy enough for us to say “voila! We have substituted these germanium parts for the perfectly functioning silicon ones for more ‘authentic’ tones” that just would not have been good enough for us or for you.
So in addition to the parallel octave circuit of the Shigeharu getting a bit more of a *woody* texture and sound from some new old stock Soviet parts we used, we also tweaked each of the transistor gain stages to more closely resemble one of our old bubble-font Soviet era fuzzstortions in our reference lab. The end result is still PLENTY of gain – I mean, good lord, you should know us by now, right? – but more wooly, a bit more low end, and a bit more bark and a little less bite than our standard Shigeharu. There’s still an incredible range of overdriven, distorted, and all out fuzzy sounds here and – while we still can! – these are hand-wired at our workshop in Columbia, S.C.
We did 100 of these for select dealers who pounced on them. We make em in limited batches, but if you want more, we’ll give the people what they want.
Available from the dealers here: https://carolineguitar.com/caroline-shigeharu-limited/
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