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Black Magic

Fender American Fat Strat CTC amp (heavy rhythm)

Fender Nocaster Mesa Boogie DC3

Guild S300 - Mesa Boogie DC3

Hagstrom Suede - Rivera Quiana 2x12

Rivera Quiana



A high gain distortion pedal designed to transform your clean amp to a monster. Utilizing JFET technology and mimicing the signal path of a high gain tube amp with a 3band passive eq Black Magic blends vintage with modern.

The gain range along with the boost toggle switch allows for low overdrive – crunchy sounds to fully saturated gain sounds with huge amounts of sustain but also with full clarity and definition that can clean up with your guitar’s volume knob. Stoners will love it .

Manual

 

     
   
 

Black Magic

(Octave On) + splash( Killswitch On) -
Mesa Boogie DC3

(Octave On) - Mesa Boogie DC3

Guild Bridge - Mesa Boogie DC3



A fuzz can be raw or smooth, raspy and spitty or clean… or it can be Pin Up. The gain range starts from overdrive to become a high gain fuzz, nasty or smooth depending on where you set the two tone controls.

The frequency response of this MOSFET fuzz machine has been carefully selected to fulfill your rhythm and soloing needs. Turn on the upper octave/ring mod effect for insane tone.

Manual

 

   
 

Black Magic

Fender Nocaster - Mesa Boogie Transatlantic

Hall

High decay and excite

High decay low excite

Kill dry - Piano Like

Never Ending

Rich Reverb


A versatile studio quality reverb in a small pedal format, utilizing our proven technique of paralleling analog with digital to get best of both worlds.

Two different reverb algorithms plus controls for decay, excite, mix can give bathroom, room, hall, cathedral and ambient sounds or anything in between. But there is more than that.

A kill dry switch located in the push-pull mix knob. Max out decay, excite, and mix and you are in “space mode”. Ambient psychedelic sounds at your feet.

Manual

 

   
 

Black Magic

Fender American Fat Strat
CTC amp - Marshall 2061CX

Mesa Boogie DC3


Stardust is a hot rodded Ziggy. Features the same touch sensitivity with a lot more gain and hotter upper mids. A tube amp on fire - british crunch at its best.

Manual

 

   
 

Black Magic

Strat vs Tele - Mesa Boogie DC3

Strat 4th Position - Mesa Boogie DC3

Guild Louder - Mesa Boogie DC3

Guild Crunch Rhythm Mesa Boogie DC3


Maxing out an American Blackface amp is truly an experience to remember. The harmonics and dynamic response are uncomparable.

Blackface Stardust is designed to sound and respond exactly like that. Set gain and tone and then control everything from your guitar. Sparkly clean to crunchy mean are all there.

Manual

 

   
 

Black Magic

Fender American Fat Strat
CTC amp - Marshall 2061CX

Gibson 335 - Marshall JTM45 - Marshall 2061CX

Mesa Boogie DC3


If you ever needed a smooth and liquid fuzz-distortion made for soloing then this pedal is for you. Huge gain range and the right amount of sagging compression give sustain for days.

Manual

 

   
 

Black Magic

CTC amp - Marshall 2061CX

Marshall JTM45 - Marshall 2061CX


With separate analog and digital paths to get best of both worlds, this unique sounding delay/echo will warm up your tone. An all analog signal path, featuring a Burr Brown opamp and high quality passive components, is used for the best reproduction of your dry signal.

Two digital recording devices, along with analog filtering, placed in parallel with the dry analog path give you the most ambient echo unit you have ever heard.
You can make it sound as lo-fi as you like. The “mood” knob is there to control the presence of your cascading repeats.

Manual

 

   
 

Black Magic

Fender Eric Johnson Strat - Marshall JTM45 - Marshall 2061CX (clean)

Fender Eric Johnson Strat - Marshall JTM45 - Marshall 2061CX


Vyagra Boost provides up to 25db of full range clean boost designed to make you sound “huge” no matter where you place it in your signal chain.
Use it to overdrive your favourite dirt pedal / tube amp or boost volume for solos.

With the footswitchable parametric eq (+/- 15db @ 150-1200Hz) you can alter the frequency response of a guitar/pedal or mimic a fixed position wah.

Manual

 

 

 

   
 

Black Magic

Vyagra Boost - Ziggy - Fender American Fat Strat - CTC amp - Marshall 2061CX

Fender Eric Johnson Strat - Marshall 2061CX - Marshall 2061CX

Fender Nocaster - Marshall JTM45 - Marshall2061CX

Fender Nocaster - Mesa Boogie DC3

Marshall JTM45 - Marshall2061CX


Ziggy is a low to medium gain overdrive that is designed to respond like a tube amp. Unlike most overdrives it does not feature a “mojo” opamp but cascaded discrete (MOSFET) gain stages that give ultra touch sensitivity.

Gain knob acts as a voicing control adding more bass as you turn clockwise, choosing from jangly and sparkling clean to thick crunch of a tube rectified amp . Tone knob behaves as a presence control adding bite to your tone.

Manual

   
 

 

   
 

Black Magic

Sound clips coming soon

 


The Bulb is the first compressor in a pedal format to feature 25V of clean headroom.

An internal circuitry produces 25V DC of clean headroom from a standard 9V supply and a hand selected photocell gives smooth attack and decay characteristics for studio like optical compression. Features superb signal to noise ratio and can be used for every stringed instrument either on studio or stage

Manual

 

Conference Room A - about us
   
 

We like our circuits a little "crazy", being far from just another clone.
The first CTC amp model, Paradox is exactly that: a crazy different approach.
An amp consisting of an all EL84 signal path, from preamp all the way to power amp.
Specs / release info coming soon.

 

 

 
Premier Guitar voted Paradox as one of the sexiest gear of Winter NAMM 2013
 
 

Just a little teaser

More clips of the amp in the pedals section
Video reviews in our youtube channel

 

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Alex Skolnick

Alex Scolnick of Testament / Alex Scolnick Trio uses Pin Up, Vyagra Boost and Blackface Stardust. He recently added Black Magic to his Testament rig.

 

 

Billy Gibbons

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top is using Crazy Tube Circuits Time, Stardust, Pin Up and Starlight. Click here for a photo of his rig including CTC Time

 

Brad Whitford

Brad Whitford of rock monsters Aerosmith uses Crazy Tube Circuits Stardust. Click here for a photo of him with CTC Stardust.

 

Jim Campilongo

Guitar Great Jim Campilongo is a happy user of Crazy Tube Circuits Starlight, Blackface Stardust and Vyagra Boost.

"The Stardust "Blackface" has what I've been looking in a overdrive for a long, long time. A pedal that gives me some great beefy authentic vintage amp sounds, without having to crank the amp to overkill settings."

Read the whole review posted in his forum

     
  Aus

Nels Cline

It's a great honour for us that Nels Cline
( Wilco / Nels Cline Singers) has chosen some of our pedals to enrich his sound palette.
New York Times described as "one of the best guitarists in any genre" has 2 Ziggy ltd for his solo work and he's currently touring with a Starlight and a Vyagra Boost in his Wilco board.
Nels also uses the new Splash Mk2 and Pin Up Fuzz in studio work

     
  Aus

Bill Frisell

Bill Frisell's love for various types of music inspired him to fuse them. The result is a unique aspect on how the instrument should sound.
The use of an array of guitar effects helped him create extraordinary sounds that keeps developing from early 80's to date.
Bill Frisell is now using and loving Crazy Tube Circuits Ziggy.

 

David Hidalgo

It's a great honour for us that David Hidalgo, guitar player for the multi - Grammy award winning band, Los Lobos, uses our Time delay and Vyagra boost.
From 1976's Si Se Puede! to last year's Tin Can Trust, Hidalgo and co have shaped the sound of American Chicano rock.

     
 

Henry Kaiser

Henry Kaiser is considered as one of the first free improvisers, from mid 70's to date he keeps exploring music boundaries and takes them to their extreme.
We 're really proud that Henry uses our Starlight, Pin Up and Splash MkII.

     
 

Brett Kingman

Brett Kingman uses Crazy Tube Circuits Splash Mk2:
We are so proud that an artist who has access to virtually every pedal in the world chose the CTC Splash Mk2 for his live appearances.
"The Splash MKII has been an indispensable pedal to me for the last few months on my tour with James Reyne around Australia. I've been using for the acoustic sets and our front-of-house guy thinks it's the best thing ever. I agree. There's something in the pedal that does amazing things to my guitar's sound, kind of like a ClinchFX EP+. It just adds magic and warmth, presence and something that I can't really explain. And this is a quality that isn't actually acknowledged in the manual or the website. But I'm tellin' ya..! And that's before the reverb effect! "

     
 

James Valentine

James Valentine of Maroon 5 uses Crazy Tube Circuits Vyagra Boost, Starlight, Blackface Stardust and Pin Up.
Take a close listen to the next Maroon 5 album, you'll hear some CTC in there, especially Pin Up which is his favorite!!!

 

Dweezil Zappa

Dweezil Zappa works in the music industry from the early 80's to date.
We are very happy that Dweezil chose to add Pin Up, Blackface Stardust, Vyagra Boost and Starlight to his new rig.

 

Christos Thivaios

Christos Thivaios is using Crazy Tube Circuits Starlight and Splash Mk2 in his live rig.

 

Nikos Portokaloglou

Nikos Portokaloglou has included Crazy Tube Circuits Ziggy, Starlight and Splash Mk2 in his rig

   

 

 
   

The Forum

  Aus  
 

Melbourne:
Deluxe Guitars, Tel: 0061-3-9686-4755, www.deluxeguitars.com.au

Wagga Wagga:
ProGuitarShop, Tel: +61 432 686 501
www.proguitarshop.com.au

 

Tone Concepts: Canada and North America Distributors www.toneconcepts.com

Toronto:
Capsule Music Tel: 416-203-0202, www.capsulemusic.com

12th Fret Tel: 416-423-2132, www.12fret.com
Moog Audio Tel 416-599-MOOG, www.moogaudio.com

Montreal:
Moog Audio Tel: 514-284-7434 , www.moogaudio.com

       
   
 

Distribution for Germany
FP Service Tel: 0049-681-5898564
www.loopersparadise.de

Harra
Tonfan Musikinstrumente Tel: +49 (0)1805 - 33 00 80
www.tonefan.de

  Athens:
Music Accessories
Tel: +30 210 3630232
www.musicaccessories.gr

Thessaloniki:
ZAHOS Music Store Tel: +30-2310-251096 www.zaxosmusic.gr

Ioannina:
NS Guitar Workshop Tel +30-26510-61005 , www.guitars.gr
       
   
 

Milan
Mr. Stomp
Tel: (+39) 3925192138
www.mrstomp.com

Modena:
Lenzotti Music Store Tel: 059364114 , www.lenzotti.it

Rome:
Music Hall Tel: 0635072459, musichall2004@libero.it

Peruzia:
DJ News www.djnews.it

 

Distribution in UK :
440 Distribution
www.440distribution.com

Dealers:

Newcastle
GuitarGuitar
www.guitarguitar.co.uk

       
   
 

Tone Concepts: Canada and North America Distributors www.toneconcepts.com

Seattle:
Jet City Music Tel: 206-588-1155 , www.jetcitymusic.com

California:
Pedalshark Tel: (619)895-7725
www.pedalshark.com

Texas:
Station Guitars Tel: 817-404-9378
www.stationguitars.com

Falmouth, Maine :
Musictoyz Tel : 207-878-1722
www.musictoyz.com

New Jersey:
Prymaxe Vintage
www.prymaxevintage.com

  Montreux Guitars:
www.montreuxguitars.com
       
   
  Distribution for France
EURODISCOM distribution
Tel: 01 5631 1170
eurodiscom.jimdo.com
 

Rybnik:
Lizard Music, Tel: +48 663 766 791
www.lizardmusic.pl

       
     
  Distribution in Thailand:
Rockplanet
www.rockplanet.co.th
   

 

 

Conference Room A - about us

  Check our youtube channel for pedal reviews and NAMM 2013 videos
 

Vintage Guitar
Pin Up, Splash Mk2, Blackface Stardust // February 2013 Issue



  Chitarre Magazine
Black Magic and Starlight // March 2011 issue
     
  Premier Guitar magazine reviews
Ziggy, Starlight and Black Magic // August 2009 issue
   
     
  Analog War Cry Ziggy review
  Analog War Cry Vyagra Boost review
     
     
     

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