Black and gold Lichtlaerm Aquaria Overdrive pedal for guitars
Black and gold Lichtlaerm Aquaria Overdrive pedal for guitars at Cult FX headquarters

Lichtlaerm Audio

Aquaria | Overdrive

$219.00

Pairs well with

The Aquaria is Lichtlaerm's homage to what is possibly the most sought after overdrive in the world: The Centaur! While it pulls off all the sounds of the original, it also has an additional 3-way clipping switch to tailor the saturation and compression to your liking. Choose between smooth sounding germanium diodes, a modern take with a combination of Schottky diodes and a smoothing capacitor or silicon diodes that give you more headroom, but also a harsher almost distortion-esque sound!

Features:

  • Lichtlaerm Audio Smart Relay Technology
  • Transparent overdrive, clean boost and EQ pedal
  • Germanium, Schottky or silicon clipping
  • Clean & saturated gain controls
  • 4-band EQ with up to 16dB cut/boost per band, non-interactive, constant Q
  • Low noise, high headroom (27V internally created)
  • Bass: 40-100hz, Low Mid: 400hz, High Mid: 800hz, Treble: 4000-10000hz
  • Up to 6dB full range boost via volume control
  • Made in Germany
Get more details

While the horseman ancestor of our Aquaria gets its signature sound from mixing more clean signal as you increase gain, we decided to split this function into two separate controls that allow you to use it as a perfect clean boost, raunchy distortion or as the classic transparent drive we think of when seeing a hybrid creature on a pedal’s artwork. We also kept the principle of the original tone control, but improved the response drastically.

In addition to these tweaks, we added a foot-switchable 4-band EQ with perfectly chosen bands and a second master volume that we called "boost": Dial in Aquaria to have the ideal frequency spectrum for your situation, use it as a two channel device or simply as an EQ: limitless possibilities!

Aquaria feels equally at home in front of a clean channel as well as a drive to push your amp over the edge! Last but not least, we added a small internal switch that lets you choose between the infamous Klon bypass buffer and true bypass operation!