La Grange

Named after the ZZ Top anthem, the La Grange captures the sound of a cranked late-60s Plexi with both channels jumpered. Reinhold Bogner designed it with an op-amp input feeding five discrete Class-A gain stages, but unlike his other pedals, this one uses germanium diode clipping for that vintage soft-knee compression.

The dual-channel design mimics the 4-input Plexis of 1967-69. Channel A delivers cleaner tones with more headroom. Channel B pushes harder into saturation. The Blend knob mixes between them, just like jumpering a real Plexi. Or run each channel independently with independent footswitches.

Volume, Tone, Gain, and Blend controls. Premium components: WIMA capacitors, Nichicon caps, gold-plated boards, Carling switches. Internal voltage elevation provides tube-amp dynamics. Low battery indicator blinks when voltage drops too low.

The sound of Texas boogie and British blues. Finicky about power supplies (give it clean, isolated 9V), but worth the effort.