Limited to 25 pieces in Europe With only three controls, this deceptively powerful pedal offers you everything from light overdrive to full on distortion with clarity and blissful grinding. A Tone On/Off switch allows you remove the Tone control from the circuit, opening up a whole new world of midrange grind. Switch it off for a simplified and straightforward attack or leave it on for a full-bodied distortion with loads of low-end with a slight natural scoop. Roll up the Sustain for wall-shaking bass notes or sustaining lead and adjust the Tone for a wild and wide frequency response from aggressive top end to low-end rumble.
Controls: Sustain: Adjusts the amount of distortion and sustain. Tone: Use this to fine tune the frequency response. Boost treble by turning clockwise, boost bass and tame the top end by turning counterclockwise. Tone On/Off: This switch bypasses the tone control and delivers a more mid focused response. Level: Controls the output volume.
We are going to guess that you have heard this pedal. It has been designed to replicate their fuzz pedal found on several LCD recordings. It has traveled around the world with them. It has been beat up and taped back together. It looks like it shouldn’t work but it always delivers. It is old, it is fragile, and it sounds massive. Too good to retire yet too tired to keep going. That is where we come in. We were tasked with replicating the exact sound of this pedal but it a reliable format that can withstand the stresses of this modern world. No easy feat, for sure, but we persevered and have brought you the Chelsea. This particular pedal really does have something special. It’s heavy without being too heavy, clean but not too clean. A simple set of controls yet it has an expansive array of tones that makes it very versatile on a wide variety of instruments. It has clarity when you need it and can blur all discernable lines when you don’t. It still retains the familiar foundation of the classic fuzz it was intended to be but something special happened to it over the years and it has very much grown into its own thing. With only three controls, this deceptively powerful pedal offers you everything from light overdrive to full on distortion with all of the clarity and blissful grinding that make the original so special. Controls Sustain: Adjusts the amount of distortion and sustain. Tone: Use this to fine tune the frequency response. Boost treble by turning clockwise, boost bass and tame the top end by turning counterclockwise. Tone Bypass: This switch bypasses the tone control and delivers a more mid focused response. Level: Controls the output volume. Each Chelsea is handmade at EarthQuaker Devices headquarters in always sunny Akron, Ohio, USA by a bunch of pretty nice humans and one big robot.
