Active pickups are notorious for their hot outputs, and if there was ever a culprit for unwanted distortion, it's active pickups. Er, right...?

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AmpFister overdrive pedal with Pre-Tone feature. It is designed and built by Sine Effect Electronics.

Allow more sculpting of your distortion and drive tone before the gain stage to allow better sculpting. It is different from using an EQ pedal alone as this EQ tweek only effects the tone from the pedal and after.

We found this pedal to be perfect at what it aims to be, being able to sculpt the tone just before the drive and then into a drive amp head for optimum application.

We are very happy to announce that we now stock Sine Effect Electronic pedals. The first pedals we added to our shop are the MegaPara EQ pedal and the Disphoria Distortion.

Please check our full demo and review of the Sine Effect Electronics MegaPara multiband parametric equaliser pedal. More knobs than in parliament and more tone shaping than a ring in a champagne glass.

The Disphoria is a distortion pedal made by Sine Effect Electronics. It is a very open and transparent distortion pedal with a huge amount of gain.