Castledine The Wizard

Black Sabbath in a box

The Wizard is a new distortion pedal, inspired by Tony Iommi's guitar sound on the early Black Sabbath albums. It is well known that he used a modified Rangemaster to drive his amps, so the same principle was used for The Wizard. The first gain stage is essentially a Rangemaster, using a germanium transistor, but tweaked for a full range boost. That drives a distortion circuit which has been designed to give something of the tone and feel of a Laney Supergroup amp. Obviously, there is no substitute for a full stack at volume, but The Wizard has a similar distortion character and responds well to picking dynamics.

Features:

• True Bypass
• FR-4 glass-epoxy circuit board
• 9V DC operation, battery or external power supply (2.1mm centre-negative, standard Boss-type supply is required)
• Negative earth, no need for a dedicated power supply.

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