The Bleak District Electric Sun?No V2 is an analog distortion and preamp pedal, listed by the maker as a "DISTORTION PREAMP". It is inspired by the infamous Sunn Model T amplifier, and it puts that amp's character on a pedalboard as a drive and preamp stage1. Players looking at this kind of circuit will also find it sits alongside other distortion pedals and preamp pedals that aim to capture an amp's front end in a box.
What it does
The Sun?No uses multiple hybrid gain stages, made up of both op amp and NOS jfet transistor amplifiers. According to the maker, that gives it "crushing amounts of volume and gain on tap. Always natural and organic from the bottom to the top of the range"1. In practice, that means the pedal can work as a heavy drive into a clean amp or as a preamp-style stage in its own right, with gain available across the whole range of the control rather than only at the top.
The V2 EQ toggle
New for version 2, the EQ toggle switches between two different EQ variations for the active tone control1. That gives the player two voicings for the pedal's tone section without adding extra knobs, which is the main difference between this version and the original Sun?No.
The V2 differs from the original Sun?No in its EQ toggle, which switches between two EQ variations for the tone control. Earlier versions do not have this switch1.
Power
The pedal runs on 9V DC, center negative1, so it shares a standard pedalboard power supply with most compact pedals.
Questions
What is the Bleak District Electric Sun?No V2 based on?
Bleak District Electric describes the Sun?No as inspired by the infamous Sunn Model T amplifier. The pedal uses multiple hybrid gain stages, made up of both op amp and NOS jfet transistor amplifiers, to put that amp's character into an analog distortion and preamp pedal for guitar and bass rigs.
What is new in the V2 version?
New for version 2, the EQ toggle switches between two different EQ variations for the active tone control. That gives the player two voicings for the pedal's tone section, on top of the volume and gain the pedal already offers.
Sources (1)
- Sun?No V2 by Bleak District Electric, RockBoard PedalPedia, 2026