Caroline Guitar Company releases Wave Cannon Zero 3rd Generation Zero Edition
October 14, 2024 · 1 sources
Caroline Guitar Company released the 3rd Generation Zero Edition of its Wave Cannon Superdistorter, Guitar Pedal X reported on October 14, 20241. The pedal is the third generation of the distortion circuit that was the company's first product1.
Philippe Herndon launched Caroline Guitar Company in 2010, and the Wave Cannon was its first release, described by Guitar Pedal X as "a heavily modified and evolved ProCo Rat with more shaping and gain-range"1. The report says the Zero Edition returns toward the pedal's 2010 roots, after the more divergent MKII edition1. The MKI Wave Cannon also appears as the eighth mode on the JHS Pedals PackRat1.
The controls are Volume, Gain, Shape, Volts (Starve), Tone, Havoc %, a bypass footswitch and a Havoc Feedback Oscillation footswitch1. Guitar Pedal X describes Shape as a combination of gain structure and frequency emphasis that works with the main Gain control, and says the Volts control gives access to "an extended range of different distortion textures"1. The Havoc function is a feedback oscillation, and the Havoc intensity control also affects gain to some degree, according to the report1.
"This is the very epitome of an evolved and extended range Rat derived distortion - and is very much its own thing, quite distinct also from the Life Pedal varieties"
The pedal was priced at $249 in the USA, and was available direct from the Caroline Guitar Company webstore1.