Category: Available For Reorder
Steampunk Optical Limiting Boost is a hand-built boost and limiter inspired by the gain-shaping section of the Schaffer-Vega Diversity System.
It combines adjustable input gain, output level, and optical limiting in a compact three-control format, allowing the pedal to work as a clean-ish boost, a more harmonically colored push, or a controlled limiter with added sustain and compression.
Sound
The Pregain control determines how hard the circuit is driven before the limiter stage.
At lower settings, the pedal can stay relatively open and dynamic. Increasing Pregain adds more harmonic coloration and pushes the limiter harder.
The Threshold control determines how readily the optical limiter reacts, allowing the response to move from subtle level control to more audible compression and sustain.
Volume then sets the overall output level, making the pedal useful both as an always-on tone enhancer and as a stronger front-end push into an amplifier or another gain stage.
Controls
Volume — Sets the overall output level.
Pregain — Controls the input level feeding the limiter stage, adding gain, harmonic coloration, and greater compression as it is increased.
Threshold — Sets the operating threshold of the optical limiter, controlling how strongly the signal is constrained and sustained.
Features
- Schaffer-Vega-inspired boost / limiter circuit
- Optical limiting for compression and sustain
- Adjustable input gain
- Independent output level
- Three controls: Volume, Pregain, and Threshold
- Can function as boost, limiter, or always-on tone shaper
- Hand-built in the Seattle area
- Individually hand-finished original artwork
- True bypass switching
- Standard 9V DC center-negative power
- Power supply not included
Enclosure / dimensions: 125B / approx. 122 × 66 × 39 mm. Hand-applied artwork and finishing may add slight variation to the final exterior dimensions.
Steampunk Optical Limiting Boost is designed for players who want more than a conventional clean boost — adding level, harmonic character, controlled compression, and sustain in a simple three-control format.
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