Goran Custom Guitars Fat Boy Drive

Submitted on August 21, 2012

It's through the communication with many guitarists that I've realized that one of the greatest quests every gigging guitarist is having : what is the solution when playing live for having both huge clean tone and excellent OD tone on the same stage with one amp only.

That's why I made analogue OD pedal when turned on on a clean tone makes a OD tone of a really good tube/valve amp.

It has:

2 channels with 2 footswitches (off/Drive channel/Solo channel):

Left switch – true bypass/drive channel on
Right footswitch – Solo channel on/off, when Drive engaged

A mini toggle which selects the mode the OD will be working at (FAT mode/Vintage mode)

FAT mode - more modern tone, like Marshall JCM series
Vintage mode - vintage old school drive, like Marshall Plexi & Fender Tweed

There are three controls for Drive channel: Gain, Tone, Volume
and two controls for Solo channel: Gain and Volume.

Solo channel is not a separate channel - it actually uses the tone that is already set on a drive channel and then adds more Gain, more Volume or both.

Construction is very rigid, some say - built like a tank. All the components are top notch for this kind of application - Black Gate electrolytic capacitors, NOS Allen Bradley composite resistors, military grade opamp... makes the FATBOY extremely reliable and practically indestructible.

Power: 9V battery or 9V AC/DC adapter