Thorpy FX announces Have Blue germanium boost pedal

November 9, 2023 · 3 sources

Thorpy FX announced the Have Blue, a germanium boost pedal, on November 9, 2023, as part of its Vintage Reimagined series¹². Delicious Audio reported that the pedal is "not a Blues Breaker variant (as the name might have suggested) but a Rangemaster one"¹.

The Have Blue is a boost pedal built around a highly modified Rangemaster circuit. Thorpy FX describes it as "a germanium Boost pedal that plays nicely with your pedalboard" and says the sound is "based on a highly modified Rangemaster boost circuit for a more versatile vintage style sound"². According to the maker, "This boost can give a subtle hair to notes or get loud and thick in the frequencies you desire"². Delicious Audio writes that the circuit "lets you pick the frequency to boost from the entire high-mids to the high spectrum"¹.

Guitar Pedal X reports that the Have Blue carries Boost and Range controls: "The Boost knob is a sort of Master Volume - impacting both Output and Gain," while "the Range knob allows you to focus on specific frequency clusters across its sweep - where it is of course a Treble Booster at its peak"³. The same report describes the pedal as an extraction from Thorpy's 2017 Germanium Veteran, a combined Fuzz Face and Rangemaster of which "Only 100 were made of that model, populated with AC128 Germanium Transistors at that time"³. Guitar Pedal X says the new pedal uses NPN transistors and an audio transformer, and that "only a few hundred (low hundreds) of each will be made"³.

Delicious Audio describes the enclosure as "a beautiful laser-cut black anodized aluminum enclosure" and says the circuit "works well in any position within your pedal chain"¹. A PedalPedia listing gives the circuit type as analog and the voltage as 9V DC, center negative².

Guitar Pedal X says both the Have Blue and the companion Tacit Blue fuzz are available from the ThorpyFX webstore and "imminently at international dealers courtesy of MAS Distro"³. No US price was given in the available reporting.