Monday July 28th I spent much of the day with ubershredder Rusty Cooley testing the myriad of prototypes of Perpetual Burn pedals constructed in an attempt to nail Jason Becker's amp tone.

I've never really addressed the importance of having a player of Rusty's caliber test the pedal. Its actually quite simple- most distortion pedals don’t hold up well to high speed picking. They tend to mush up, or blur and you loose the attack of each note. There are very few people on this planet that can do what Jason did, and very few that can do what Rusty does. So I figured if this design can hold up to Rusty's furious picking speed it could withstand anything.

The final prototype candidate, the design I was pretty sure would be 'the one'… was exactly that! It nailed everything we wanted and needed from it! The notes, even at hyper, speed jumped out the amp each one ringing as clearly as the next. Massive amounts of sustain, crushing Marshall-ish distortion… smooth and silky tube overdrive when you dial the gain back, totally un-pedal-like in every aspect.

We've got some audio and video clips of the sessions. I'll post some of the testing as Rusty and Jason approve of them.

From here we'll do some more recording, build a few more prototypes with the final design and send them to a couple of other players for their feedback, and present all of the data to Jason for his final approval.

We're RIGHT on track for a Fall release.

Thanks to everyone for your support on this project- its made a tremendous impact.

Dennis

And now for the tacky, yet required, part of the blog...
We are anticipating extremely high demand for this pedal. You can pre-order the unit here with a $100 deposit. When yours is in the build queue an invoice for the balance will be sent.