CopperSound doubles down on Mini Pedals with the release of its Iris Optical Compressor and Kingpin Germanium Clipper Overdrive
I covered the very first CopperSound Mini pedal - the V1 Gravity Bomb Boost all the way back in 2017 as part of my Best Mini Boost Pedals overview then. Coppersound then released an updated V2 Gravity Bomb alongside a brand new Renegade Silicon 2-Transistor Fuzz - back in October of last year.
I had intended to cover the brand new mini pair back then - but never quite got around to it - so for this week’s release I’m covering all 4 recent / new mini pedals - where the most recent additions are the Iris Optical Compressor and Kingpin Germanium-Diode-Clipping Overdrive.
All of these have nigh identical controls - a single sort of Master Volume or Gain knob, and an accompanying normally 3-way Mode / Voicing toggle switch. The only slight difference is that that the Renegade’s switch is weirdly only 2-way - surely they could have had a 3rd Bias setting? In any case these are incredibly neat and potent - with the maximum amount of impact from the least amounts of controls and pretty much the smallest of form factors.
The Kingpin is just $99, the Gravity Bomb and Iris are at $129, and the Renegade fetches $149 - all available from the CopperSound Webstore. While the 2 new ones don’t go up for sale until this Friday - the 14th of July!
Here follow the individual pedal details :
Iris Optical Compressor - $129
Controls - Volume, Compression : Most / Least / Intermediate.
A tiny studio-grade optical compressor with 3 levels of compression set via toggle-switch. This is an original circuit in about the smallest package possible - really potent, and could not be easier to deploy!
Kingpin Germanium Clipper Overdrive - $99
Controls - Volume, Gain : Most / Least / Intermediate.
Mini 2-Stage FET Overdrive with warm and gritty character. Can run off 9V to 18V power supply for added headroom. A great always on gain texturizer for sure!
Gravity Bomb V2 Clean Boost & Mids Enhancer - $129
Controls - Boost Level, Boost Type : Upper Mids (1kHz) / Flat / Mids (750Hz).
Burr Brown Opamp driven Boost Pedal with +20dB of Boost, and a Mids Boost selector - which allows you to select 2 different Mid Boost values of 750Hz or 1kHz - where middle switch position is flat / full-range.
Renegade Multi-Bias 2-Transistor Silicon Fuzz - $149
Controls - Fuzz (Gain + Level), Bias : Full-Bodied / Modern + Gated.
A silicon 2-Transistor Fuzz - obviously TB MK1.V and Fuzz Face adjacent with a 2-way Bias Switch - which different values give you very different fuzz voicings - UP is more Vintage & Full Bodied, Down is more Modern & Gated. To match the other 3 in this series - it should really have had a 3-way versus 2 way with an additional voicing - the fuzz face can gp from Gated, to Vintage, Sweet and Open Sounding, Fat and Sticky - so Coppersound could surely have found a 3rd interesting voicing here. Still a really cool sounding mini fuzz - and effortless to deploy! For the Bias I would have probably just preferred a fully variable mini-knob here!
