Description
Before overdrive pedals existed, guitarists reached for the LPB-1 to shove their amps into breakup — and this reissue reproduces that original 1968 circuit exactly. It’s not a gain pedal in the modern sense; it’s a linear boost, meaning it amplifies your signal without reshaping its character. Where you place it in the chain decides what it does to your tone.
Set it early in your signal path, ahead of drive or fuzz pedals, and it hits their input harder, thickening saturation and adding front-end grit before the effect even engages. Move it to the end of the chain, right before the amp, and it drives the amp’s own preamp tubes into natural compression and edge, letting the amplifier do the heavy lifting on tone. Either way, the LPB-1 adds definition and push rather than fuzzing things up — think of it as a volume shove that also firms up pick attack and note separation.
Because the gain and saturation response depends entirely on what’s downstream, this pedal rewards experimentation on a board: try it before a fuzz, after an overdrive, or straight into a clean amp for that classic late-60s boosted breakup.
- Exact recreation of the original 1968 LPB-1 circuit
- True bypass for a transparent signal path when off
- Rugged, compact die-cast chassis built for gigging boards
- 9V battery included
A simple, road-worthy way to add punch anywhere in your chain — no tone-sucking, no complications, just more impact.
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