LPD Pedals Eighty7 Deluxe

The LPD Pedals Eighty7 Deluxe is a dual Plexi drive: an all-analog overdrive/distortion pedal that puts two complete, independent Eighty7 circuits in one enclosure, each with its own Green and Red gain channels¹². LPD Pedals (Lawerence Petross Design) built it as an expanded version of its Eighty7, a Plexi-style overdrive/distortion that Delicious Audio considers one of the best boutique Plexi-style pedals². An extra footswitch lets you alternate between the two channels, and each channel has its own internal bright switch¹²³.

Delicious Audio describes it as a genuinely versatile overdrive that can cover a lot of ground, from clean and edge-of-breakup preamp tones through 1980s-style guitar tones².

Two Plexi-style drives in one pedal

The Eighty7 Deluxe is two pedals in one box. RockBoard's PedalPedia describes it as "two complete independent Eighty7s," each with both Green and Red channels¹. Where the standard Eighty7 gives you one circuit with a toggle between its two gain modes, the Deluxe doubles the whole thing: two gain stages, two EQ sections, and a footswitch to move between them mid-song¹².

The Green and Red voicings come from the original Eighty7's two gain modes, and they aim at different jobs²⁴:

• Green mode: percussive and dynamic, with plenty of mids to cut through a thick arrangement²
• Red mode: more saturated and compressed, for liquid leads and chugging palm-muted rhythms²

Because each side is a full Eighty7, you can set one channel for a lower-gain rhythm sound and the other for a lead voice, or run two different EQ shapes for two amps or two songs, and switch between them with the second footswitch¹².

The Plexi-style character is the thread running through LPD's lineup. Delicious Audio has included the Eighty7 in its roundup of the best Plexi-style pedals and Marshall-inspired distortions, where it notes that the Deluxe version "offers two channels of it, adding internal bright switches per channel"⁴³. The same family includes the LPD Pedals Seventy4 and its own two-channel Deluxe version, and the LPD Pedals Mach I Distortion, an amp-in-a-box pedal in a different vein.

The controls

Each Eighty7 side carries its own control set, with one exception: Presence is global, shared by both channels¹.

The full three-band tone stack is inherited from the standard Eighty7, where Delicious Audio notes it "allows complete control over the frequency shaping of your tone"⁴. On the original single-channel pedal, the layout is a row of Bass, Middle and Treble knobs, a row of Level, Presence and Gain, and a toggle switch in the middle to select Low or High gain modes⁵. The Deluxe replaces that single toggle arrangement with the two-footswitch, two-channel layout¹².

Power, bypass and build

The Eighty7 Deluxe runs on a standard 9V DC center negative supply and draws 50mA¹. Internally the circuit operates at 24 volts from that supply, a design LPD also uses on the standard Eighty7, which gives the pedal more internal headroom than a straight 9-volt circuit⁴. Switching is soft touch true bypass¹; the standard Eighty7 uses relay true bypass with Switchcraft open frame jacks⁴.

The whole thing comes in a rugged enclosure measuring 4 5/8" long by 3 5/8" wide by 2" high, weighing 1 lb².

Where it came from

LPD Pedals released the two-channel Eighty7 Deluxe in 2020, following the single-channel Eighty7⁴. Delicious Audio covered the launch as a 2-channel all-analog overdrive with Green and Red circuit voicings, and the maker's product page notes a review by The Gear Page¹⁴. The standard Eighty7 remains available direct from LPD Pedals, as MusicRadar reported at that pedal's launch⁵.

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