Caroline Guitar Company announces Wave Cannon Silicon Zero limited holiday drop
November 24, 2025 · 1 sources
Caroline Guitar Company announced the Wave Cannon Silicon Zero on November 24, 2025, a limited holiday run of its Wave Cannon Zero distortion pedal built with silicon diodes. The maker said it previously offered a small batch of the same build as "Amber Waves of Gain" for the 4th of July, and that "they were gone in seven minutes!"1
The pedal uses a mismatched pair of NOS Toshiba 1588 and 4001 silicon diodes, which the maker says "crunch faster and get hairier at 12:00 and up" and produce "a pleasing amount of compression and a bit softer upper midrange EQ"1. Caroline describes the Silicon Zero as having "less headroom (and possibly less versatility) than our standard Wave Cannon Zero" on paper, while keeping the Zero's shape control and its "First/Not First" control, which the maker says lets players "still get the havoc mayhem even if you run something in front of it"1. The enclosure is finished in bluish-gray, white and orange1.
Buyers order from the maker's site by selecting Silicon Zero from the version drop-down menu on the Wave Cannon Zero product page1. Caroline did not state a price or a unit count in the announcement. The maker said the pedals ship within 24-72 hours of order receipt and that "once these are gone, they're gone"1.
"It's still a Wave Cannon"
The maker traces the circuit's origin to a repair decades ago, when it replaced the main chip in a malfunctioning RAT pedal at Winter Sound Company in Gloucester Point, Virginia with a part of matching pinout1. Caroline also posted video of guitarist Zach Bingham playing the pedal1.