Subdecay - Liquid Sunshine

Liquid Sunshine - Class A Overdrive

An all JFET based overdrive for natural breakup and huge available volume boost.

The Liquid Sunshine will give your amp a good kick in the ass. Equally useful as a clean boost, treble booster, and overdrive. Responds well to boosters, and loves pushing your other dirt boxes too.

What is the Liquid Sunshine?

The Liquid Sunshine is a JFET based overdrive with graceful breakup and pick attack, and will not cover up the the natural sound of your guitar and amplifier.

With two drive knobs, the Liquid Sunshine allows you to control the character of the overdrive rather than simply controlling overall gain. The drive knobs control two separate gain stages, each with their own characteristics. The top drive knob pushes the overall frequency range, while the bottom drive knob accentuates the middle and high frequencies. Both are very interactive, and allow the Liquid sunshine to perform not only as an overdrive, but a clean boost or treble booster as well.

Why doesn't the Liquid Sunshine have a "tone" knob?

Unlike a lot of other overdrives that use diodes to clip an amplified signal, the JFET circuitry produces no "sharp edges" or hard clipping. Many tone knobs on overdrives have a very narrow band of useful settings.

Instead, the bottom drive knob on the Liquid Sunshine controls gain and also alters the frequency response, with many useful settings over a wide range.

The Liquid Sunshine now has two internal controls for bass, and treble boost.

The Liquid Sunshine is hand made in Newberg, Oregon.
Die-cast metal enclosures for durability
3PDT switches for true bypass switching.
Red LED indicator
Three-year limited warranty

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Product Notes:

Can be powered by a 9 volt battery or a regulated 9VDC to 18VDC adaptor with a negative center 2.1mm barrel style plug. (18 VDC for units manufactured after March 2009 only)
If using a "daisy chain" power supply, all other pedals MUST be negative ground. Current draw is less than 10mA.
Input impedance- 1M
Output impedance- varies from 10k to 50K

A special note to Liquid Sunshine owners: The lower drive knob on the pedal operates a little differently than most drive controls on other pedals. The short explanation is that it will always sound a little scratchy. It is not defective, it's simply the way the circuit works.