Donner and Third Man Hardware launch Triple Threat multi-effects pedal

January 25, 2024 · 3 sources

Donner and Third Man Hardware announced the Triple Threat, a three-in-one analog multi-effects pedal, at NAMM 2024 on January 25¹. White had teased the collaboration on his Instagram page earlier in the month¹.

The pedal has three footswitches, one each for echo, phaser and distortion¹. The distortion section carries volume, gain and tone controls, which Donner says are there "to create a threatening rock sound"¹. The phaser is an upgraded version of Donner's Pearl Tremor with extended modulation controls, and the echo derives from Donner's first pedal, the 2013 Yellow Fall Delay¹. Guitar Pedal X lists the full control set as Volume, Gain and Tone for the distortion; Level, Rate and Depth for the phaser; and Level, Feedback and Time for the echo, with a delay time range of 20ms to 620ms². Delicious Audio reports a true bypass switch and a standard 9V DC power jack³. Third Man Hardware designed the exterior, and Donner says the circuit design and tone were made to White's specifications¹.

The standard black edition is priced at $99, and a limited yellow edition, sold exclusively through Third Man's Reverb store, at $129¹. Guitar Pedal X listed the yellow edition at $149². Both variants were set to arrive in 2024¹.

Donner says White took interest in its Alpha series pedals, released in 2017, as suitable for Third Man Hardware's beginner guitarists¹. Guitar Pedal X described the Triple Threat as a possible update to Donner's discontinued $69 Alpha Cruncher, Pearl Tremor and Yellow Fall, and noted that none of its effects are based on pedals White uses on his board or on his records².