Description
The Pharaoh is for musicians who love their guitar and amp’s tone. While its roots and DNA are classic fuzz, it has a few twists. The Pharaoh has a wide range of clipping and tonal options, going from a cleanish boost, to a light overdrive, all the way to saturated fuzz. It sounds clear, natural, strong and bold. Your guitar sound isn’t high jacked, and your amp’s tone is not destroyed. The Pharaoh utilizes a dual tone control. The tone circuit is designed to suffer little volume loss, and give a natural sound. Your guitar and amp still sound like they should, with no drastic cuts or boosts. The tone section allows your amp to do the heavy lifting.
The Pharaoh starts with a hi/lo input switch, not unlike that of your favorite tube amp. Use Lo for more headroom/less clipping, and Hi for less headroom/more clipping. The Pharaoh also, of course, comes with a standard fuzz knob. A full range tone control with the addition of a high end compensation knob to allow you to replenish the highs cut by the tone control when boosting lows. The diode selector switch allows for different modes of clipping. You also have a choice between Silicon and Germanium diodes.
The two switches can take the Pharaoh from a clean/fat boost, to light overdrive, all the way to hairy open fuzz. The Pharaoh utilizes signal caps large enough to pass all frequencies through, uncut. This is especially important for bass player; you’ll get huge fuzz without flubby tones and no low-end loss.
