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Hey all!..just got a new pedal which I like a lot...
It's a Myrtle Effects "Die Mutant"


Website blurb...

Myrtle Pedals:

Die Mutant is the culmination of much fiddling with opamps, transistors and diodes to get a distortion which could sizzle and crunch like butter fried bacon.

At it's core is a classic Japanese distortion design based around a Burr Brown opamp using Vishay, WIMA and Panasonic caps as well as carbon film resistors. Foot stomp is high quality, from Small Bear electronics.

Knobs control Volume, Tone, Gain going left to right. There is a switch for changing diode clipping between open, crunchy LED's and "Marshall sounding" NOS silicon diodes. You can push the Mutie a shade harder than your average distortion pedal and the silicon diodes allow for more fuzz pedal style clipping options, coupled with a flexible tone stack you can achieve Tubescreamer boost and grit, MXR Distortion+ sizzle or Muff style mid-scooped savagery.

I can tell you now, this bugger is loud as fook! I Like the diode clipping especially...going from hazy muffy fuzzz, to "You Nasty Bastard" crunchy distortion....I can see us getting along nicely

Anyone else got any other Myrtle pedals? Handmade in Liverpool UK...

I've met the guy who builds them. He's a very nice gentleman.

All I can say is...my neighbour must hate me tonite...holy crap, its loud...
I feel like a dirty binge pedal humper..."an hour of filthy noise please barman"...

Yeh, Nice guy I bet, and certainly knows his onions....
Thankyou merciful EBay....

Any chance of some gutshots? How is the labelling done- is it screen printed?

Here ya go Tim...this is off another site


It's not screened just inkjet sticky....

funnily enough there's a small guitar shop in Birmingham that stocks them, haven't tried them myself though the shop owner really rates them and they seem reasonably priced.

ghost_effects wrote:funnily enough there's a small guitar shop in Birmingham that stocks them, haven't tried them myself though the shop owner really rates them and they seem reasonably priced.

Ironically, that shop's called "The Little Guitar Shop"...
Got some fab gear in there....check out the obscure guitars!!

www.thelittleguitarshop.com

JohnnyTheBoy wrote:Here ya go Tim...this is off another site

Fanks very much, always like to see them gizzards!

JohnnyTheBoy wrote:

ghost_effects wrote:funnily enough there's a small guitar shop in Birmingham that stocks them, haven't tried them myself though the shop owner really rates them and they seem reasonably priced.

Ironically, that shop's called "The Little Guitar Shop"...
Got some fab gear in there....check out the obscure guitars!!

www.thelittleguitarshop.com

yeah it's a cool shop, i'm taking some pedals down there soon!

Tell them that white Tokai SG that they have listed as being Japanese (and keeps giving me conniptions - I'd love a white MIJ SG) is actually Korean, and that they keep building me up just to knock me down.

hahaha i will try and remember to tell martin!

benecol wrote:Tell them that white Tokai SG that they have listed as being Japanese (and keeps giving me conniptions - I'd love a white MIJ SG) is actually Korean, and that they keep building me up just to knock me down.

That's lovely that SG is...wouldn't mind that amber explorer tho...have always had a thing about them ever since I saw the Wannadies with a gorgeous white one...
And that explorer is for cheappzzz!!!...I've seen 2nd hand ones go for £250...although eBay has one for £200...