The Edge Hog is a distortion pedal from Barber Electronics. It was a very limited run design, built around the time of the millennium madness, and it has since become one of the maker's scarcer pedals rather than a current catalog item1.
What it does
The Edge Hog is a distortion box: it takes the guitar's signal and clips it for a dirtier, more saturated voice than an overdrive, sitting alongside Barber's other dirt designs. Beyond that, little documentation of the pedal circulates, which is typical of a short-run build from the era1.
"This one seems to be a very limited run distortion from Barber"
The circuit trace
The pedal's circuit is documented in the DIY community through a trace, a reverse-engineered schematic drawn from an actual unit. A trace of the Edge Hog was posted on freestompboxes.org by Joe from Gray Bench Electronics, and Guitar FX Layouts published a stripboard layout built from that trace on 24 November 20221. For players who build their own pedals, that layout is the main public record of how the circuit works.
Because the Edge Hog was a limited run, it does not appear in Barber's current lineup. Players hunting one secondhand should expect it to turn up rarely.
Where it sits in Barber's range
The Edge Hog sits on the rarer side of Barber Electronics' range. It was a very limited run distortion, built around the time of the millennium madness, and it is documented today mostly through a circuit trace posted on freestompboxes.org by Joe from Gray Bench Electronics rather than through official product pages1.
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Questions
Is the Barber Electronics Edge Hog Distortion still in production?
The Edge Hog appears to have been a very limited run distortion from Barber Electronics, built around the time of the millennium madness, according to the Guitar FX Layouts write-up from November 2022. It is not a current catalog pedal, and players looking at Barber's present lineup will find it among the maker's older, scarcer designs rather than on store shelves.
Sources (1)
- Guitar FX Layouts: Barber Electronics Edge Hog Distortion, Guitar FX Layouts (tagboardeffects.blogspot.com), 2022-11-24
