Winner of “What’s That Dude Play? Pedal Of The Year 2011”!

Classic overdrive paired with a powerful EQ section. Even with the gain dimed, the Rook maintains astonishing note articulation and chord clarity, (think a highly tweakable Tube Scre@mer). If that’s not enough, the Rook is one of the most stack friendly drives on the market. Whether stacked with various overdrives, fuzzes, or muffs, it can make all of your other pedals sound even better!

The magic is the 2 band Baxandall EQ circuit, which offers up a different approach to tone control. Both Bass and Treble can be independently cut or boosted, allowing for an almost limitless tonal palette. With them both down, you get a mid range hump. Turning both controls up yields a nice mid scoop.

Adding to the countless shades of drive is the 3 way toggle. Toggle UP for “classic overdrive” tones, filled with rich “harmonicy” goodness. Toggle DOWN is LED clipping, for a raw and edgy, almost distortion type drive. Lastly, the MIDDLE position removes the clipping diodes for a louder, cleaner, less compressed sound. This position also causes the EQ controls to be more pronounced, allowing the Rook to be used as an excellent tone shaping boost. It’s best to start with the gain down to get a feel for this position, then crank it up for total amp melt-down!

Demo by Lance Seymour

Demo by LeFevers Audio

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Rook

Sweet Texas Heat… The Bluebonnet is a streamlined, straight to the point tribute to Lone Star Tone. Designed to be the ultimate grab-n-go dirt pedal, its simplistic dual control layout (Volume and Gain) makes it a natural extension of your amp. Crank the Volume knob to give your rig a boot to the tubes, or dime the Gain and watch your licks scorch like the sun on a summer day in Dallas. With no Tone or EQ controls, we’ve voiced the Bluebonnet relatively flat: not too bright, not too dark, no ‘honky’ mids…just nice, smooth and neutral.

While the Bluebonnet’s design favors simplicity over versatility, thats not to say its a mere one trick pony. Whether its used to add some grit to a clean amp, kick an already overdriven amp to the next level, or used as a base tone to stack other pedals…the Bluebonnet delivers classic shades of drive smothered in Tejas Mojo.^

Review by TDPRI

Demo by Visual Guy

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Bluebonnet

The Mojo Hand FX El Guapo® is an ultra-flexible fuzz machine offering a plethora of great fuzz tones. It can get nasty and gnarly with the best of them, but it can also be dialed back for nice, smooth, classic fuzz, and all the way down to an “almost” overdrive.

The “Starve” knob controls the amount of voltage being fed to the circuit. The higher that it’s set the nastier things get. This can be used in conjunction with the “Gain” control for a wide variety of fuzz sounds. “Volume” controls the overall level of the pedal, while “Cut” controls the amount of high end that comes through.

Review by Premier GUitar

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El Guapo

Since its release back in 2011, the Rook Overdrive has been hailed as the “New Standard of Boutique Overdrives” and has been seen on the pedal boards (and heard on albums) of numerous top shelf players including:

Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Ty Tabor (King’s X), Andy Timmons, Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge), Audley Freed (The Black Crowes/Cry of Love), Mato Nanji (Indigenous), Marlon Young (Kid Rock), Mike Zito (Royal Southern Brotherhood), Lance Lopez, Pepper Keenan (Down), Cody Canada and Seth James (The Departed), Ryan McGarvey, and others.

With its Baxandall-driven EQ section and 3-way voicing switch, the Rook’s versatility has verged on uncharted territory for a small, simple 4-knob OD. It was this combination of versatility, sound/build quality and affordability that led to the Rook being named “Pedal of the Year” by What’s That Dude Play in ______ .

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Demo by Mark Stuart GUITARIST

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Rook Royal

The Sacred Cow is a playful nod to the legendary and extremely expensive gold standard overdrive that has become a near-mythological classic. We sought to create an accessible, pedalboard friendly version of this circuit with some added flexibility while remaining very faithful to the overall tone.
A while back we came across some forums talking about "silver" modded Klons. Ever since then, we have wanted to make a "silver" modded Sacred Cow variant. The wait is over! We have made a batch of 27 of these beautiful silver cows. This is more than just an aesthetic change. There is increased bass response and a little bit more high mid gain. It still maintains its transparent overdrive and sits in the mix perfectly. 

Demo by Fran Canales

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