Bass effects

Analog Bass Chorus
$109

The BYOC Bass Chorus kit is a warm, lush, analog chorus designed for bass guitar. It uses the MN3207 bucket brigade delay chip to deliver its vintage chorus tones. We placed the jacks on the side to keep the signal path as short and direct as possible. The audio signal never crosses over any part of the clock driver or LFO circuit to insure that your signal doesn't pick up any high pitch noise or odd thumps that beat in time with the rate knob. The active dry signal is completely transparent with your bypass signal. The passive cross-fader blend knob allows you to dial in the perfect wet-to-dry ratio.

Bass Overdrive
$130

A BYOC Original design. 5 knobs: bass, treble, volume, gain, and blend. Ideal for adding some tube-like warmth and growl to your tone, but has plenty of gain on tap for when you need to grind. The two band EQ is easy to use yet incredibly powerful. The blend knob can go from 100% wet to 100% dry and allows you to dial in the perfect amount of punch. This pedal has a ridiculous amount of volume on tap, even when you have the blend knob 100% dry, so it can be used as a clean or dirty boost. Are you a 6 string guitar slinger? Jealous? Don't sweat it. The kit comes with extra components to modify it to a "regular" guitar overdrive.

Divided OCtave
​$195

demo

Before there was the P.O.G., there was the Mutron Octave Divider. It had an octave down, an octave up, and a dry mix. We took the Mutron Octave Divider and keep the circuit 100% original, but added some improvements. The BYOC Divided Octave is housed in a 1610 size enclosure, so it's much smaller than the original. We've replaced the wall plug and noisy AC power transformer with the MAX1044 charge pump so that the BYOC Divided Octave can be powered with a standard 9VDC power supply, but still provide the circuit with a bipolar power supply for all the headroom and range of the original. And last but not least, we made it true bypass. Even the auxiliary output has true bypass. Aside from those improvements, the BYOC Divided Octave is 100% true to the original. We didn't make any modifications or cut any corners. The BYOC Divided Octave comes with all the exact same chips and transistors that were used in the original. It has the mix and tone knob. It has the "ringer", "stabilize", and "bass only" switches and it has the auxiliary output. And it also has all the tone of the original, but without the $600+ price tag.

Parametric EQ
​$140

A parametric EQ with 3 bands, tuned to the frequencies that are most effective for guitar and bass. Low Band: 33Hz - 330Hz frequency range Mid Band: 250Hz - 2.5kHz frequency range Hi Band: 1.1kHz - 11kHz frequency range Each band has +/-12dB of boost Each band has Q control to adjust the width of the frequencies affected Level knob controls overall output with more than 30dB of boost on tap True bypass Operates on a single 9v battery or standard 9VDC negative tip power supply

parametric Multi-band Compressor
​$135 - $145 painted

The BYOC Parametric Multi-Band Compressor is a must have for bass and acoustic guitar players. It is entirely analog with true bypass. It uses a state variable filter to split your signal into two separate signals - low and high. The cross-over frequency knob lets you select where in the spectrum you want to split your signal. It has a massive sweep range of 44Hz to 3.3kHz so you can focus on just the lowest lows, the highest highs, and all points in between. Once the cross-over splits your signal into low and high, each is sent to its own separate optical compressor circuit. This pedal actually has two completely independent optical compressors. The high signal has its own compressor and the low signal has its own compressor. This allows you to put as much or as little compression as you need on each of the frequencies. And because it's optical, you get the fast and transparent compression that is preferred on bass and acoustic guitar, or electric players who don't want their tone squished. This is not an EQ per se, but because you can control the volume level of each frequency, you can use it as such. This, in addition to being able to adjust the level of compression on each frequency, allows you to sculpt and enhance your tone in a way that the typical single band compressor just can't even come close to, no matter how many knobs and switches it has.

Scrambled Octave
$105

Demo

In addition to being an extremely rare and expensive vintage effect, the Ampeg Scrambler is also an extremely cool octave up fuzz. The actual fuzz itself is very unique. Like most octave fuzzes, it's a very rude, nasty, ripping-velcro sort of fuzz. But unlike most other octave fuzzes, it's not overly saturated or gated. It's surprisingly open, articulate, and responsive to pick attack. And the actual octave up part of its sound is very thick. The knobs on the Ampeg Scrambler were quite unique as well. It doesn't have a volume or fuzz knob! The texture knob allows you to dial in the amount of octave so that you can go from no octave at all, to just a subtle hint of octave, to full on mangled chords and squealing single notes. The Blend knob is just that - it allows you to blend the octave fuzz with your clean guitar signal. You can go from completely fuzzed out, to completely clean, and anything in between. All of these attributes make the Ampeg Scrambler a truly unique and extremely versatile octave fuzz. The BYOC Scrambled Octave is an exact replica of the original Ampeg Scrambler circuit. The BYOC Scrambled Octave comes with a 2N3904 transistor, 2N5306 Darlington transistors, and 1N456 diodes. We used all 1% metal film resistors. This pedal actually reduces hum noise when you turn it on! And there is absolutely no volume drop. Some people have complained that the reissues and clones weren't loud enough, but there is no volume drop with the BYOC Scrambled Octave. It must not be an issue when you use the correct components. The only difference between the BYOC Scrambled Octave and the original Ampeg Scramble is that the BYOC has true mechanical bypass with a status LED and a standard 9VDC adapter jack.