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.
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.
The pedal’s red halo light rings installed diffuse the light when playing live, so you can avoid being blinded by standard LEDs, and an aluminium foot topper gives you more real estate for contact when switching the pedal on and off during quick changes when playing live.
All Flattley "Platinum Range" pedals are hand processed in our Flattley paint shop, with a strikingly unique finish.
The Outlaw includes this control set:
Toggle Switch: The toggle switch allows you to change the lead order of the two pedals. Toggle switch selected forward has the clean tone booster as the lead pedal, toggle switch selected to the rear has the plexi style overdrive as the lead pedal.
Plexi Drive Controls
- Volume: Controls the overall output level.
- Gain: Controls the amount of gain/overdrive
- Tone: Controls the amount of treble/bass
Tone Booster Controls
Volume: Controls the output of the pedal from zero (use as a kill switch), unity gain is around midway and max gives quite a lift to the output. It’s second function is to act as a gain recovery stage for the tone control.
Tone: Midway the tone control is effectively flat and the setting you would use for a straight lift in volume. Either side of midway there is a sweet spot allowing tone to be a little dark (anticlockwise) or have a bit more sparkle (clockwise). Tone fully anticlockwise, the pedal works as a bass boost, fully clockwise it becomes a treble boost with the volume control being used as a gain compensation control as bass boost requires a reduce in overall gain and treble boost usually requires an increase in overall gain.
Other features include:
- 9-volt external power operation (no internal battery option)
- 15mm red anodised aluminium custom etched control knobs
- Red halo light rings installed
- The Outlaw comes with a purple custom etched aluminium foot topper
All Flattley pedals are handmade and hand wired in the UK using the highest quality components.
The Flattley Outlaw carries a street price of $379/£299. For more information visit flattleyguitarpedals.com.
