Dirty Sock x All Music Is Bad “IVP” preamp/drive pedal

Limited run of 20 units. Music is bad - now, when you’re making it, your pedalboard can remind you of this fact.

Built by Ewan at Dirty Sock Effects on the AionFX PCBs, these units are direct pedal conversions of the legendary Intersound IVP rackmount preamps, as used by Steve Albini (who would famously seem to believe in the negative equalism of all music) - and by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, but hey, “stopped clocks” etc. Here is some technical data.

“The IVP runs on the same voltage as the original, using a DC-DC converter to get +/-15V from a standard 9VDC input. It has six EQ bands (four semi-parametric and two Baxandall) and two channels, clean and drive. The drive channel, called “Tube Voice”, is of particular interest and is the main reason for its enduring reputation. It uses a combination of op-amp gain, a transistor amplifier and a transformer to get its overdrive tone—no clipping diodes in sight. All of the EQ comes before the overdrive, so it can be used as a tool to get a wide variety of drive tones and clipping characteristics.”

Pedals will ship in late September. Please be okay with this.

After costs and Ewan’s labour, there is $50 profit margin per pedal. 50% of these profits will be donated to the "Pay The Rent Grassroots Collective", and 50% to "RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees".