The Kilt 10 Special Edition Mod: More Headroom, More Clarity, More Gain!

Hey everyone, it's Josh here with StuOG. We're showing off a brand new 10-year anniversary [music] Steu signature kilt pedal. It's crazy that it's been that long. >> Yeah, it's amazing.

And for the 10 year anniversary, [music] you've done some adjustments, some mods to it. We're here today to show you all what they are. >> Let's get with it. [music] >> [music] >> The kilt is our take on the vintage expendor [music] and it is essentially an overdrive distortion or a fuzz all in one small package.

[music] Once you play the kill, the regular V2 and especially this new [music] 10ear, it's a pretty wild thing that one pedal can swing that far. Yeah. So, I know one of your biggest loves of this pedal is the crazy gated fuzz that's [music] highly controllable. Yeah.

>> Yeah. Yeah, that's right. And on the old Xander, each pedal sounded a little bit different. What I love about [music] this is it's consistently [music] >> It's wild to [music] see it on so many different boards.

I've seen it country players. I know a jazz guy that loves it. Was it 9 in nails? He like >> in the studios.

Like I know I know engineers that use it on on a drum bus. It's just a really cool moment to celebrate how successful, how popular the pedal is and do something unique but super like [music] approachable and familiar. People out there that love the kilt, this is really for you. With the 10 year anniversary, [music] we can now go completely the opposite end of the scale and clean it up really nice, but [music] still be loud and warm.

Yeah, it was a sliding scale when modifying it. We found like a perfectly sweet spot on this. We just lost the unusable, ridiculous side of the fuzz, but we gain the low gain stuff even more than the two. >> So, sometime in 2014, we met in Nashville.

>> Yes. After that, you reached out to me and said, "Stu, if we were to do a signature pedal with you, >> what would that be?" And I said, "You know what? The X-Men doors were no longer being made. You know, the frustration of having the dip switches on the inside.

I used to have two or three cuz they all sounded a little bit ...