Mourning Star

The Mourning Star is a custom overdrive with an active 3 band Baxandall EQ that has a fixed boost that sits behind the volume for more headroom and harmonics, plus a 3 way clipping selection. We designed this pedal to give your amp an extra push into saturation territory without having to mod your amp but also in a familiar package and clipping options to really tailor how the pedal goes into and reacts with your amp. We wanted to offer something that pushes a vintage Plexi as well as sculpt a Mesa Dual Rectifier, but still offer a stack-able pedal for those that use fuzz and distortion pedals for their tone.

The 3 way options are:
TS9 / Mourning Star / SD-1

These were decided on for a more familiar feel right out of the box. But understand that this is not a clone of any of those, but an entirely new build. TS9 setting is your standard tight and compressed feeling, the SD-1 adds that more rounder mid push while the Mourning Star setting is a custom LED clipping that adds a lot of gain and a stronger low end.

The 3 band active eq was chosen over the standard tone knob as we wanted something you can really adjust depending on size of the amp and plus tone stack and power tube types. The Lows are full and can add better depth while the Mids are quite unique, push them to get more bite, gain and of course mids. The High is useful to calm a thin amp or used with all three controls creating a powerful but cutting tone. One thing that makes the Mids so unique is when maxed you can get an HM2 like aggression, something that really hits strong with heavier styles of music like Death Metal, Doom and other purveyors of Brutal. We recommend starting the Mids at zero and adjusting to taste.

This build is from the ground up, beginning to end, with a desire to make a better overdrive than all the clones out there, and we feel we have achieved something pretty great. We hope you enjoy the Mourning Star and it finds a nice spot in your signal chain!