THE SUNN O))) DIRT BOX COMES BACK TO LIFE IN EARTHQUAKER’S LIFE PEDAL V2

It was the must-have distortion pedal of 2019, and we see no reason why this new version of the Life pedal won’t be this year either. Is it a distortion, octave fuzz, or boost? It’s all three, and maybe a little more!

Developed in collaboration with Sunn O))) guitarists Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, the Life Pedal is designed to hit a tube amplifier hard and send your tone spinning through a wormhole of cascading drive and harmonics. ‡

While the pedal has an all-new enclosure, the gameplan is unchanged. The Life Pedal features an octave fuzz that was inspired by the classic Shin-Ei FY2 and FY6 units.

That circuit leads into an LM308-chipped RAT-style distortion, and features a three-way clipping switch (op Amp, Asymmetric and Symmetric) to sculpt that gain. The second stage operates as a clean MOSFET boost to get your tube amp all hot and bothered.‡