Electronic Audio Experiments places Dude Incredible on indefinite hiatus

April 1, 2024 · 1 sources

Electronic Audio Experiments states that the Dude Incredible was placed on indefinite hiatus in April 2024, and that the product page is retained for archival purposes¹. The maker says the Tube Voice side lives on as the Surveyor pedal¹.

The Dude Incredible pairs two circuits: the IVP "Tube Voice" preamp and a percolator-style fuzz, which the maker calls the Percolate channel¹. The maker describes the Tube Voice channel as its streamlined version of the Intersound IVP, a 1970s rackmount preamp, with a transformer-loaded overdrive circuit driven by a pre-gain shelving EQ¹. The Percolate channel is the maker's take on a two-transistor fuzz, using a germanium transistor selected from measurements of an original unit, with a diode switch selecting between the custom configuration from the Dude Incredible V1 and a more compressed mode¹. The maker says the pedal was originally released in 2017 and was the first adaptation of the IVP into a pedal format¹.

Controls include Harm (input gain for the Percolate channel), Balance (output level for the Percolate channel), Gain, Level, Treble and Bass for the Tube Voice channel, a Diode toggle, a Hi/Lo toggle, and separate footswitches for each circuit¹. The maker gives the Tube Voice gain range as -15dB to +12dB in the Lo setting and +9dB to +36dB in the Hi setting, and the Treble and Bass shelves as +/-12dB at 3kHz and 100Hz respectively, both located pre-Gain¹.

The maker recommends a regulated, isolated power supply rated for 100mA and states that the power input is protected from reverse polarity and over-voltage conditions up to 24V¹. No price or further availability information is given on the archived page¹.