Hey there! Here’s another fun little video for your consideration. Gibson Les Paul Standard... say hello to a vintage Tweed Fender Champ by way of our Limited Edition “SA” Super Duper. Glorious Fun! The SA Super Duper is a limited edition tribute pedal. It's a fond throwback to an earlier unprotected version of the circuit. One that yielded a little more of the famous sparkle that our SHO, Super Duper, and Channel 2 pedals are known for. The backstory can be found below if you’re interested. We are selling this limited edition pedal for one week. Promotion ends at midnight January 4th 2017. Don’t forget to hit up our email list for future shenanigans!
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Ladies and Gentlemen... we proudly Introduce the limited edition SA model of our ZVEX Super Duper. In order to understand why this new modified release is especially significant, we need to go back a few years. It was a different time, but still the same Universe. An intrepid young pedal maker named Zack Vex had a new design which he thought might be of interest to famed Music Producer and Rock Luminary Steve Albini. As it happened Zack made arrangements for Mr. Albini to receive one of these pedals when Steve was in town with his band Shellac to play First Avenue. Years passed, and then one day Steve’s pedal arrived at the ZVEX shop for a Warranty repair. It was at this time Zack learned that his gift of a Super Hard On (SHO for short) had been used on countless recordings. The pedal was retuned to Mr. Albini after it’s repair and time marched on.
Early versions of the SHO had a quirk. They contained a transistor that was vulnerable to damage from static electricity. Zack added a component to protect that transistor, and that addition changed the sound. The SHO and its two channel big brother The Super Duper can be accurately described as secret sauce pedals. They impart clarity and definition, with natural sounding, sweet, chimey presence. The addition of a protection diode shaved off some of the very high end of that sparkle. Guitar tone wizards, and producers noticed the change and over the years Zack occasionally fielded requests for the earlier raw version. This modification was performed on both SHO and the Super Duper pedals per request. Now we are releasing a limited edition of of our Vexter Super Duper with a custom mod we’ve christened the “SA”. The ZVEX SA Super Duper has an added socket for the protection diode in order that it may be easily taken in and out of the pedal by the user without any special tools. Protection for the stage, raw for the studio.