The Skreddy Pedals Dynamic Mids Enhancer is a clean guitar preamp with three midrange contour gain controls, a signal shaper rather than a drive pedal. The maker describes it as a high input impedance, ultra-clean circuit that minimizes signal adulteration and boasts amazing transparency, with a noise floor that stays flat at virtually zero self-noise while signal peaks are multiplied1. It sits in the wider family of preamp pedals and boost pedals, but its focus is midrange contouring rather than flat gain.
What it does and where it goes
The three controls are active gain controls along different voicings, aimed at the midrange. Skreddy Pedals says these frequency-gain controls do not create losses or fight with one another or impart phase shifts to the signal, which is what separates an active contour preamp from a passive equalization pedal that trades one band against another1.
"The noise floor stays flat (virtually zero self-noise) but signal peaks are multiplied."
Placement matters. The maker describes it as an amazing clean boost on its own, but also says it works wonders stacked with dirt, and is best used after your overdrive or fuzz pedals1. In practice that means it goes after the drive section of a board, adding midrange punch and volume on top of an already distorted signal rather than pushing the front of it.
Power
The pedal runs at 9V DC and the maker says it sounds fantastic there. It can also run at 12V or 18V for even more dynamic punch, volume, and clarity1. Higher-voltage headroom is the point of the option: the same circuit, with more room before the clean signal clips.
The Dynamic Mids Enhancer is built to order and listed as Preorder on the maker's page, with a current wait time of approximately 2 weeks to 1 month1.
Where it came from
Skreddy Pedals frames the pedal as a modern take on the signal enhancers that sat in some well-known rigs. According to the maker, Angus Young used a Schaffer-Vega wireless receiver as a guitar signal enhancer, David Gilmour used an Alembic preamp, Tube Drivers, Boss GE-7's and an EHX Electric Mistress, and Eddie Van Halen used the Echoplex EP3 FET preamp1. The Dynamic Mids Enhancer is the maker's take on what those kinds of clean, midrange-forward enhancement stages do to a guitar signal.
Skreddy Pedals also builds amp-oriented preamps, such as the Super 100, an amp emulator pedal in the same preamp lane1.
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Questions
Where does the Skreddy Dynamic Mids Enhancer go in a pedal chain?
Skreddy Pedals says it is best used after your overdrive or fuzz pedals, where it works wonders stacked with dirt. It also works as an amazing clean boost on its own, so a common placement is near the end of the drive section of a board, shaping mids after the distortion pedals have done their work.
Can the Dynamic Mids Enhancer run at 18V?
Yes. The maker says it sounds fantastic at 9V, and that you can run it at 12V or 18V for even more dynamic punch, volume, and clarity. Check the current draw and polarity requirements before using a higher-voltage supply output.
Is the Skreddy Dynamic Mids Enhancer made to order?
Yes. Skreddy Pedals says it builds everything to order, and the pedal's stock status on the maker's page is listed as Preorder. The stated current wait time is approximately 2 weeks to 1 month.
Does the Dynamic Mids Enhancer cut treble?
No. The maker describes its three midrange contour gain controls as active gain controls along different voicings with no treble-cut functions, and says these frequency-gain controls do not create losses or fight with one another or impart phase shifts to the signal.
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