Lichtlaerm Aquaria | Overdrive
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
In Lichtlaerm’s words:
The Aquaria is our homage to what is possibly the most sought after Overdrive in the world! While we wanted to give you all the sounds of the original, we of course didn’t stop there. We added a 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!
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!