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I'm sure some of you already know of TwinStomp,
maybe we've even met. I've been looking for a way to get more
involved in the UK community beyond the various guitar shows and
stumbled across this rather lovely forum. So here I
am.
TwinStomp have been going since 2006, and launched our
first product, the TwinStomp Booster in 2007. Alongside the
Booster (now in its MkIII version), are our Actve A/B-Y, OD-Boost,
and our best seller the S21
Overdrive.
S21
Overdrive Deluxe
Other pedal ideas/variants are in the
pipeline, but we're a small business, consisting only of a father
(Clive) and son (Adam), and the occasional wife/girlfriend, when they
can be convinced to give up some of their time to help the cause, so
things sometimes move slowly where new products are concerned.
But a large demand can yield results, as with the arrival of a
TwinStomp Overdrive in 2011.
All products are handbuilt in the
UK, by us, and to our designs.
All questions,
comments, praise and criticism welcome here. Our products are
continually improved with input directly from our customer base, so
feel free to air your thoughts. What do you like about
TwinStomp? What do you dislike? What do you want to see
in a TwinStomp case?
Cheers
Adam
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Comments
It was necessary to make the pedal active to cover the level drop you get from impedance issues caused by running two amps together. At the time we launched the pedals we were the only ones offering an active splitter with an isolated output to combat ground loop issues.
Orange just released a splitter pedal, and on their website they say that theirs is the only A/B-Y available that is powered from a 9V battery. We've been doing just that since 2008. I own the UK patent for the battery release mechanism. It's my one official original idea! I've spent a little too much time crouched on dark stages with a screwdriver. I figured there must be a better way. The "ring-pull/grenade ring" was the best solution we could find.
The weight of the pedals comes from them being made from solid cast stainless steel. This was necessary for the outrigger feet we had planned. If we'd made the pedal out of zinc alloy the way other pedal enclosures are made then these would crack and break off very easily. People either love the stainless steel (and the weight that comes with it) or they don't. My advice is don't drop it on your foot.
Again, thanks for taking the time to post about it.
There's an awful lot crammed into those cases. To make them smaller would almost certainly require removing the hand-soldered element of the build, and shifting manufacturing to China.
Here's the inside of a CR10 OD-Boost:
Around four hours of labour goes into each one, and they're all hand soldered by me.
Hey, I'm English. If you want a big fake grin with your sales pitch you know where you can get it!
Photo shoots are not my thing I'm afraid. I really only posted a picture of myself to avoid being a faceless brand. This out-take is about as close as I get to a smile on camera without serious medication.
Edit: Back from the kitchen scales, the TwinStomp S21 Overdrive weighs around 2lb 4oz (just over 1 kg).
We have a board with four TwinStomps on that I use for demoing at guitar shows, and it is... weighty, considering it only has four pedals on it. But I shouldn't imagine there is anybody else out there with four TwinStomps on their board. Having a clean boost, overdrive, and an overdrive-boost by the same manufacturer on the same board seems a little redundant.
One of the plus points about the weight is that if you're the kind of person like me who only uses one or two pedals at a time, rather than a board, then they don't follow you around the stage like a square puppy.
I saw these when the first emerged and remember putting them in my list of things to try
Looked like a Vai Gemini but better made ...
Since I always stack ODs these look ideal
https://speakerimpedance.co.uk/?act=two_parallel&page=calculator
The TwinStomp A/B-Y, like the idea of a clean boost with two switched levels that became the TwinStomp Booster, came about because at the time I needed something that did what I wanted, I genuinely couldn't find one for love nor money. I very much doubt it was a new idea then, but they just didn't seem readily available at that time.