Third Man Hardware and Donner debut $99 Triple Threat pedal

January 1, 2024 · 3 sources

Third Man Hardware and Donner debuted the Triple Threat, a three-in-one analog multi-effects pedal, at NAMM 2024, held at the Anaheim Convention Center from January 25 to 28, 2024¹². Guitar World reported the pedal on January 26, 2024³.

The Triple Threat combines three analog circuits in one metal enclosure, designed by Third Man Hardware and manufactured by Donner³. It has a distortion with volume, gain and tone controls; a phaser upgraded from Donner's Pearl Tremor with level, rate and depth controls; and an analog-voiced echo derived from Donner's first pedal, the Yellow Fall Delay, first released in 2013, with level, feedback and time controls³. Third Man Hardware designed the exterior, adding lightning bolts from the Tesla tower on the panel, three sharp stripes in front and diagrams from its logo on both sides³.

Guitar World reported two versions: a standard black edition at $99 and a limited edition in yellow, available exclusively at Third Man's Reverb store, at $129³. Guitar World said the circuit design was fine-tuned to Jack White's specifications, and that White took an interest in Donner's Alpha series pedals, released in 2017, before the two brands partnered³.

Riario also said of the pedal, "These individual effects actually sound better than a lot of standalone effects," and described the distortion as "really musical," the phaser as "really thick" and the echo as sounding "great"³.