The Drunk Beaver Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack is a gain pedal that the maker says generates "a unique, compressed distortion character that feels alive under your fingers"1. Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson described it as "such a different style of gain pedal with a really unique delivery and shaping of the output", and found it distinct from more conventional clipping pedals in its overall design1.
How the circuit works
The Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack is a completely original design that moves away from traditional diode clipping. At its heart is an obsolete KA334 dual power op-amp that pushes a small signal transformer hard enough to drive it into magnetic saturation, which Karlsson says generates "a unique, compressed distortion character that feels alive under your fingers"1.
Clipping is still part of the design: two Silicon KD503A diodes in the feedback loop create one-sided, asymmetrical clipping1.
The controls and modes
The pedal's tone shaping uses what Drunk Beaver calls an "Attack Equalizer" topology. Rather than cutting frequencies, the Volume, Bass and Treble knobs act as three separate volume controls, letting you blend the raw signal with filtered low and high bands in parallel1.
A voicing switch offers two modes:
- Hard Mode (down): pure, unadulterated op-amp and transformer crunch1
Context in the Drunk Beaver range
The Broadcast Attack is a Drunk Beaver design that stands apart from more conventional clipping pedals in its overall delivery and shaping of the output, according to Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson1.
For where the Broadcast Attack sits tonally, it belongs among distortion pedals, though its transformer-based output shaping sets it apart from more conventional clipping pedals1.
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Questions
How many Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack pedals were made?
The Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack was released as Pedal Drop #35 in a limited run of 30 units. Those units went up for sale on the Drunk Beaver Rocks Webstore when the pedal was announced in January 2026, so the total production run is 30 pedals.
How much does the Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack cost?
At its January 2026 release the pedal was listed at $150 in the United States. European pricing was €150, which includes VAT, and the pedal was also offered at 559 PLN.
Is the Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack based on a classic circuit?
No. Guitar Pedal X noted that this Pedal Drop was a departure from the norm, since Drunk Beaver's drops are typically based on classic circuit derivations. The Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack is a completely original design from Vitalii Bobrov that moves away from traditional diode clipping.
What kind of clipping does the Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack use?
The pedal uses two Silicon KD503A diodes in the feedback loop, which create one-sided, asymmetrical clipping. The main character of the pedal, though, comes from a small signal transformer driven into magnetic saturation by an obsolete KA334 dual power op-amp.
Who designed the Mykolaiv Broadcast Attack?
The pedal was designed by Vitalii Bobrov of Drunk Beaver. Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson wrote that this time around Vitalii rolled out one of his very own highly original designs.
Sources (1)
- Guitar Pedal X, Guitar Pedal X, 2026-01-16