Flattley Pedals Introduces The Outlaw Boost/Overdrive

Flattley Pedals has introduced The Outlaw, the company’s first dual-function pedal, which offers a boost circuit and overdrive circuit in a single package.

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The Outlaw’s boost channel is based on Flattley’s Ace tone booster. It has an independent tone stack, so it can deliver everything from clean boost, bass boost to treble boost.

The Outlaw’s overdrive section, based on the Flattley’s Plexi pedal, is an FET circuit that gives a simulation of the harmonic distortion that you would expect from a 12AX7 valve with a wide range between a sweet blues tone to a flat-out rock tone.

Each of the two halves of the pedal has its own bypass footswitch to allow the user to use boost or overdrive individually. However, the combination of these two pedal circuits is taken further by allowing the user to swap the order of the two with the flip of a single switch. This means the overdrive tone can be boosted (with additional tone shaping) in one mode, ideal for lifting level for soloing. Alternatively, the overdrive circuit can be driven by the booster which can push it into extreme compression/ distortion as the boost half of the pedal has its own tone stack that can be used to pre emphasise the signal to give a wider range of overdriven tones.