Nerdvana NEVERMAN

The Nerdvana NEVERMAN is an analog amp emulator pedal from Nerdvana. It is a JFET Bassman-style design, based on what RockBoard's PedalPedia calls another well-loved classic "57" pedal design from Indiana, and it can be used as a distortion pedal, a preamp, or even a DI.¹

What it does

The NEVERMAN emulates a Bassman-style amplifier using JFET stages, which is an analog way of reproducing how a tube amp's gain stages break up. Because it works as a preamp as well as a drive, it can take the place of an amp's front end on a pedalboard, and its DI capability means it can feed a mixing desk or audio interface directly. Players looking at this kind of pedal will find it grouped with distortion pedals and preamp pedals, which cover the same ground from different directions.¹

Nerdvana describes the feel of the pedal in its own words:

That touch sensitivity means picking dynamics shape how much the circuit breaks up, in the way an amp's own gain stage responds to how hard the strings are played. Being dialed in for maximum gain places it at the heavier end of the drive range, closer to distortion pedals than to lower-gain overdrive pedals.¹

Power

The NEVERMAN runs on 9V DC, center negative, the standard pedal power arrangement.¹

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