Poly Effects announces Josh Smith Flat V two-channel gain pedal

April 16, 2023 · 2 sources

Poly Effects has announced the Josh Smith Flat V, a two-channel gain pedal designed with guitarist and producer Josh Smith, Delicious Audio reported on April 16, 2023. The Australian builder lists the pedal at $399.00 and marks it "Currently Unavailable" on its site¹.

The Flat V is a gain pedal with two channels¹. Channel A is transistor based with selectable diodes; Delicious Audio lists the diode options as Schottky, Germanium, Silicon and LED². Channel B is an amp-style gain circuit with cascaded JFETs replacing valves, and synth-style resonant filters shape its tone¹. Delicious Audio describes those filters as resonant parametric filters and says the two channels are stackable².

The pedal's four main settings are HPF (Treble), Volume, Gain and LPF (Bass), controlled by touch-sensitive sliders, according to Delicious Audio². Each preset has two sides that allow blending between two values of each slider, with blending driven by waveshapes, MIDI or an envelope that reacts to playing¹. Poly Effects says blending allows "very complex tremolo, envelope filter and auto wah style effects"¹. Delicious Audio reports that LFO shapes (sine, triangle, square or envelope) alternate a channel's two sides².

The signal path is "100% analog" with digital control, and MIDI controls all sliders, switches, channel routing, blending and preset control¹. The pedal requires a 150mA 9V center negative power supply, not included¹. Poly Effects says the unit is made in and ships from Australia, and that prices are delivered duty paid¹.