Strymon has just released the Fairfax Class A Output Stage, which marks the beginning of their new Series A analog pedal lineup and draws inspiration from a 1960s Garnet Amps Herzog tube drive that reportedly powered some classic rock tracks. The company designed a miniaturized tube amp circuit featuring a discrete power-amp stage, a JFET preamp, and a custom transformer saturation circuit, all of which operate at 40 volts to ensure proper headroom.
The thing does a clean boost at low gain and compressed saturation when you crank it, plus there's a Sag circuit that goes from light compression to full gated fuzz sputtering. Strymon claims it stacks well with other pedals and feels like an actual amplifier instead of a filtered drive box.
The pedal costs 199 bucks.
The thing does a clean boost at low gain and compressed saturation when you crank it, plus there's a Sag circuit that goes from light compression to full gated fuzz sputtering. Strymon claims it stacks well with other pedals and feels like an actual amplifier instead of a filtered drive box.
The pedal costs 199 bucks.
