Belter Skelter
Dual-path bass overdrive designed to recreate John Lennon's Bass VI tone from The Beatles' White Album with phase-matched clean blend.
The Belter Skelter is original bass overdrive that may be only pedal on market designed specifically, though not exclusively, with Fender Bass VI in mind. Named after The Beatles' iconic track, this pedal aims to recreate sound of John Lennon's bass on White Album and expand on it for modern players. Pedal features sophisticated dual-path design with two distinct signal paths: "John" and "Paul."
"John" path is discrete, flexible, and reactive bass overdrive with gain dial, tone dial, two switchable tone stacks, mid-scoop selector, and iconic "strangle switch" lifted straight from internals of Bass VI. This strangle switch provides bass cut right at start of signal chain, allowing Bass VI users to keep their switch down for rich clean sounds while using drive, and for everyone else it means you can thicken or tighten gain as needed. "Paul" path serves as clean blend, engineered and mixed to provide solid bass foundation that is phase-matched to "John" path, ensuring full "chest feel" of low end is preserved without phase cancellation that can make bass sound weak or thin in mix.
Pedal features simple main controls (Gain, Tone called "Piggie", and Volume) plus four internal DIP switches for additional tone shaping. Switch 1 controls strangle function, Switch 2 selects between two tonestacks (up is high-mid cut at 400-1000Hz, down is grinding three-piece low mid cut at 200-450Hz), and Switch 3 controls mid-cut depth. Belter Skelter is positioned as gig-ready, no-nonsense, plug-and-play bass drive solution inspired by classic Beatles tones while being versatile enough for modern bass and baritone guitar applications.
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