Is there a company around right now making better pedals than England ’ s ThorpyFX ? I cannot think of one . Thorpy ’ s uncompromising , weapons-grade build quality and clever re-imagining of circuits is on a level that few other pedal pushers can touch . Its latest release , the Chain Home ( named after a pre-World War II British radar system ) is simply the best modern iteration of the Repeat Percussion circuit available . It is based around the magic Motorola 2n2646 transistor , and creates the essential reverse sawtooth wave for vintage RP tone . Of course Thorpy is not content to simply produce a clone , so the Chain Home goes many steps above and beyond , enhancing the rate range and overall musicality , adding a seriously high fidelity Burr-Brown op-amp-based boost circuit ( which can be used independently of the trem ), and a Tone knob for counteracting the perceived truncation of bass frequencies that trem pedals can cause . The ThorpyFX Chain Home is a stunner . Save up and get one .
THORPY FX CHAIN HOME
Is there a company around right now making better pedals than England ’ s ThorpyFX ? I cannot think of one . Thorpy ’ s uncompromising , weapons-grade build quality and clever re-imagining of circuits is on a level that few other pedal pushers can touch . Its latest release , the Chain Home ( named after a pre-World War II British radar system ) is simply the best modern iteration of the Repeat Percussion circuit available . It is based around the magic Motorola 2n2646 transistor , and creates the essential reverse sawtooth wave for vintage RP tone . Of course Thorpy is not content to simply produce a clone , so the Chain Home goes many steps above and beyond , enhancing the rate range and overall musicality , adding a seriously high fidelity Burr-Brown op-amp-based boost circuit ( which can be used independently of the trem ), and a Tone knob for counteracting the perceived truncation of bass frequencies that trem pedals can cause . The ThorpyFX Chain Home is a stunner . Save up and get one .
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