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Here's a new little monster from MI Audio Effects. The Crunch Box is a simple and straight forward amazing distortion pedal. The Crunch Box Distortion is our take on high gain British amp distortion. Careful design and development has meant we have achieved our goal of creating a pedal which captures the huge crunch of a Marshall on steroids.

The Crunch Box has some similarities to the Tube Zone, in the sense that the design is based on a multiple clipping architecture (the signal is clipped 3 times). However, there are significant differences which make these two pedals sound quite different from each other. The Tube Zone is designed to have a very 'broad' sonic footprint. The Crunch Box on the other hand has a strong mid-presence to it, similar to the great British amps. Also, the Crunch Box has a relationship with the Blues Pro, since the tone shaping is similar to the Blues Pro.

The results are really quite spectacular. In the lower gain range, the tone is very punchy and throaty. There are some great classic rock rhythm sounds to be found in there. As the Gain control is wound up, the Crunch Box develops a beautiful singing lead tone. Pinch harmonics are a breeze. The Tone control has a wide sweep with a lot of top end. MI Audio Effects have put in there more gain than anyone should need, but due to the way MI Audio Effects handled the pre-overdrive tone shaping, the pedal always stays tight and each pickup retains its character, including single coils.
The Crunch Box has a lot of volume up its sleeve. You will find though that 12 O'clock is close to ‘neutral’.

Like the Tube Zone, MI Audio Effects  included a Presence control to help control the 'shape' of the pedal. By winding up the presence control, the lows won't feel as powerful, which some people might find to be a bit too much. Also, this creates the effect of giving the pedal even more top end. So with the new Crunch Box, there is no chance that the pedal will be too dark. The same can be said if you feel it is sounding harsh due to the amp you are using. You just need to wind down the presence control.


 
Specifications:
* Gain, Tone and Volume Controls.
* High Gain cascaded design, using ultra noise electronics.
* Heavy duty die-cast, professionally powder coated and silk-screened enclosure. The same size of an MXR pedal too, and a gorgeous sports-car red!
* Heavy duty 3PDT footswitch with true bypass.
* The highest quality in/out plugs for a life-time of trouble-free operation.
* Upgraded caps throughout for operation anywhere up to 25V for massive headroom!!!
* DC plug (boss style) for use with external power supply or internal 9V battery.
 
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