Crazy Tube Circuits Locomotive is a real tube bass overdrive featuring a 12AY7 tube, the same tube type used in the preamp of a tweed bass amp design conceived decades ago.
With that amp in mind we designed the pedal with a wide gain range. From a massive clean boost to warm organic tube grind featuring excellent touch sensitivity and dynamic response with the organic compression of a classic tube amp.
A clean control has been added to blend in your dry signal and preserve all bass frequencies while a low impedance output ensures that the pedal can also be used as a stand-alone preamp. 
Powered from a standard 9V DC supply with an internal voltage multiplier to deliver proper tube voltages.

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Locomotive

Faithful Reproduction of a Hi-Watt CP-103 (100w) and DR-504 (50w) with an extra Coloursound Boost circuit on the right side of the pedal

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Hi Power

Ein bisschen Backstage-Info... 2016 haben wir einen Custom-Amp gebaut, der zwischen den Sounds eines 5E3 Tweed Deluxe und eines 6G2 Brownface Princeton morphen sollte. Wir mochten den Sound und das Gefühl des Verstärkers so sehr, dass wir beschlossen, ihn in einem Pedalformat einzufangen.

Der Falcon wurde als akribische Emulation der Schaltungen dieser Verstärker entwickelt. Bis ins kleinste Detail haben wir das Verhalten, den Sound und das Gefühl des Vorverstärkers, des Phasenumkehrers und der Endstufe dieser beiden Designs kopiert. Durch den Einsatz der JFET-Technologie ist es uns gelungen, nicht nur die übersteuerten Sounds, sondern auch die Low-Gain/Clean-Sounds nachzubilden.

Der wichtigste Teil war die Emulation der Kompression und der Ansprache, die von der Endstufe bzw. dem Röhrengleichrichter ausgehen. Dieser Effekt verbessert das dynamische, musikalische Gefühl des Pedals und macht es sehr reaktionsfreudig auf Ihren Picking-Angriff. Je nach Einstellung des Verstärkermodus und der Leistung der Gitarre bzw. des Tonabnehmers kann dieser Effekt mehr oder weniger stark ausgeprägt sein.

A bit of backstage info… back in 2016 we built a custom amp that was designed to morph between the sounds of a 5E3 Tweed Deluxe and a 6G2 Brownface Princeton. We liked the sound and feel of the amp so much that we decided to capture it in a pedal format.

     Falcon was designed as a painstakingly close emulation of the circuits found in these amps. With every detail in mind we copied the behavior, sound and feel of the preamp, phase inverter and power amp of both these designs. Applying JFET technology we managed to recreate not only the overdriven sounds but the lower gain / clean sounds as well.

     The most important part was emulating the compression and sag coming out of the power amp and tube rectifier respectively. This effect enhances the pedal’s dynamic, musical feel and makes it very responsive to your picking attack. Depending on amp mode setting and your guitar / pickup’s output this effect can be more or less pronounced.

Review by GuitarPlayer

Demo by Pete Thorn

Demo by Guitar Bonedo

Review by The Gear Page

Falcon

This pedal, aside from being very pleasing and calming aesthetically, hides a lot of beautiful tones inside it’s otherwise standard-looking appearance. While the Volume, Tone and Gain controls aren’t exactly re-inventing the overdrive wheel, they each take on a significant role to make the Stardust sound great.

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