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MARRAKESH CONSOLE MK2
€340
VINTAGE STUDIO CONSOLE WITH HYBRID ORGANIC OVERDRIVES & FUZZ RIGHT ON YOUR PEDALBOARD
Inspired by old vintage consoles from the 70s, the Marrakesh Drive Console captures organic, saturated, and punchy studio tones. The selectable combination of authentic console preamp and musical soft-clipping overdrive creates truly unique and beautiful sound characteristics with rich tonal nuances.
This versatile unit offers many distinct ways to use it: a unique console-style preamp that produces the vibe of a vintage studio console; two musical overdrives with natural, soft saturation; a transparent tone shaper to enhance your clean signal with EQ and organic compression; and a massive distortion and fuzz that can be twisted into a hard, compressed console-style fuzz or a more classic harmonic distortion.
Built around a professional discrete op-amp studio circuit, the Marrakesh Drive Console features a custom high-quality Baxandall EQ, three selectable saturation characters, and a 9V/28V voltage switch for added headroom and dynamic range. Its refined pure analog design ensures exceptional performance across all applications, making it equally at home on a pedalboard as it is in the studio for tracking and processing.
This pedal works perfectly with guitar, bass, and line-level signals, delivering studio-grade warmth and punch in a compact, pedal format.
TWO SOFT OVERDRIVES
The Saturation Switch offers two additional soft overdrive modes with different saturation characteristics.
— Dense Asymmetrical OD —
Tube-like asymmetrical clipping with a lower clipping threshold. Generates more odd-order harmonics and provides more compressed and distorted tones.
— Open Symmetrical OD —
More transparent, with smooth compression, a higher clipping threshold, and an open tone. Symmetrical clipping provides even peak cuts, and the higher threshold triggers overdrive/distortion more softly.
— Pure Console Preamp —
No active saturation. The authentic discrete op-amp circuit delivers the natural tone of a vintage console: open, punchy, with organic warmth and gentle analog compression.
WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS
The Marrakesh Drive Console delivers outstanding flexibility for both studio and stage applications. It integrates perfectly into professional pedalboards, performing equally well as a standalone overdrive, authentic console preamp, or when combined with other effects.
Players can seamlessly transition between clean vintage preamp tone, harmonically rich overdrive tones, and powerful console-type fuzz saturation. In studio environments, the pedal excels when tracking guitars, bass or keys through DI, adding that sought-after analog console warmth to recordings.
This versatility makes the Marrakesh Drive an indispensable tool for musicians who value both authentic analog sound and combinability in any working conditions.
MORE FEATURES & INTEGRATIONS
— The Headroom Switch —
Powered by a standard 9V supply, the switch lets you choose between 9V and 28V internally. Delivers increased harmonic distortion and compression at 9 volts, while ultra-stable operation at 28V ensures superior headroom for studio applications with a more powerful and clean signal.
— Custom Baxandall EQ —
Provides high-quality tone control for various instruments and signal chains, allowing you to adjust Highs & Lows by boosting or cutting them. This is not a basic EQ; it’s a custom-tuned circuit that invites active tweaking, not just center detent settings.
The Marrakesh Drive offers multiple saturation modes ranging from subtle enhancement and coloration to unique overdrive and aggressive fuzz, easily adapting to any musical genre or playing style.
“1970s studio preamp tones in an eye-catching stompbox”
“A versatile pedal offering quality textures in a wide variety of contexts”
“The overall character is warm and organic with the vibe of a vintage studio desk”
“Marrakesh can play a wide number of roles from EQ, booster, buffer and preamp to saturator, overdrive and even console-style fuzz”
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