The Iron Horse is our take on
a classic distortion circuit that’s thick, punchy, riffy, and rowdy.
With the help of the Si/LED (Silicon/LED) knob and wide range of the
distortion knob, this true bypass, high-gain behemoth can be finely
tuned for clear overdriven sounds or let the reigns loose for a full-on
distorted onslaught.
Top mount jacks with soft switch bypassing
and art by David Hüttner complete the package for a pedal board-ready
distortion machine.
The Iron Horse V3 updates are as follows:
- Top-mounted jacks
- Soft relay true bypass on/off
- Fixed volume drop-off when the distortion knob is at minimum
- Re-imagined
the hard clipping toggle as a blend style potentiometer, that allows
you to blend between symmetrical silicon and diode clipping for a new
variety of tones.
Owners of the previous versions of the
Iron Horse will be familiar with the three distortion modes operated by a
toggle switch to change between different clipping modes. The switch
has now been replaced with a blending knob opening up a wealth of ways
to alter your tone.
When the knob is set to the left, the
distorted signal will be using Silicon clipping diodes adding in a high
amount of compression. Rotating the knob to the right will bring in LED
clipping and a smaller amount of compression. Putting the knob at noon
will blend between the two using different ratios of the Silicone and
LED clipping diodes for more complex clipping sounds.
Note: Since
the Si/LED knob is changing the internal gain and clipping style, the
other controls will behave slightly differently as well. You will need
to use the volume knob to adjust the overall output up or down depending
on where you have the knob set.