Barber B-Custom Cool Overdrive Pedal
The Barber Electronics Custom Cool overdrive pedal is the newest pedal from the Barber Electronics Custom Shop. All pedals built in the Barber Custom Shop are now labeled B-Custom.
Listen to the Custom Cool sound samples recorded by Monster Mike Welch:
Barber Custom Cool Slow Blues in D (bridge pickup)
Settings: vol 12:30, tone 10:30, dynamics 9:00, gain 11:00
B-Custom Cool Overdrive March in E (neck pickup)
Settings: v 12:30, t 10:00, dyn 10:00, g 12:00
Custom Cool Mudslide in G (neck pickup, open G tuning, tone rolled down to 2)
Settings: v 12:30, t 7:30, dyn 9:00, g 1:00
Barber Custom Cool Monster Mike Blues in G (middle pickup)
Settings: v 12:30, t 10:00, dyn 10:00, g 11:00
Custom Cool Claptomania in A (bridge pickup, tone rolled down to 4)
Settings: v 12:30, t OFF, dyn 9:00, gain MAXED
Monster Mike B-Custom Cool Little Wing in Eb (neck/middle pickups, volume rolled down to 8)
Settings: v 12:30, t 11:00, dyn 11:00, g 11:30
The New B-Custom Cool offers new features such as:
EQ switching- This allows you to have two totally different EQ curves, using only one tone control by simply employing a push/pull switch, we call these “SR EQ” and “Snarl EQ”, the first being quite flat response to preserve your guitar’s beautiful tone that you so carefully selected, and the second having a wicked fat midrange of sweet barbed wire with loads of fundamentals, without the silly “hump” sound.
Smooth/Crunchy- Yep, just like peanut butter you can have smooth or crunchy sounds with the Custom Cool. This again uses the push/pull method of switching between the well known Barber style smooth tone or a new dynamic/raunchy no holds barred rude presentation, all this in a sophisticatedly tuned, low gain architecture to please the classic tone connoisseur.
Internal Trims- These are our familiar, easy to use internal controls that players can use to dial the Custom Cool into their own personal gear, they include- Note shape, Bass, midrange and presence.
The Barber Custom Cool project started when Monster Mike Welch came to us in search of an overdrive to help with rental back-line gigs, where he needed a reliable sounding amp style overdrive pedal, to emulate the sound he gets from his cranked smaller amps he uses for club dates. After sending pedals back and forth and lots of discussion, the first proto of the Custom Cool was born, we have added EQ switching and the smooth/crunchy switching since Mike’s early prototype, but the sound we brought together for him is well retained with a few other tweaks added to give ultimate flexibility.
Barber B-Custom Cool Overdrive Pedal Features:
Precision matched components-using proprietary specifications to ensure symmetrical and specific asymmetric clipping and reduced intermodulation distortion. This allows complex chords to be heard with total definition and clarity at any level of overdrive. True bypass switching with led indicator
Three way toggle- This control allows three distinct styles of symmetry to allow a perfect mate to your amps character.
Hand made-Built in the B-Custom shop by Ronni Santmyer
Volume knob response circuitry-numerous shades and textures at your fingertips just by adjusting your volume knob.
8 knob control for tonal versatility-The Custom Cool uses eight (including internal trim pots) control knobs as follows, Volume, Tone, Dynamics and Drive. Internal controls for Note shape, Bass, Midrange and presence.
Unique control- The note shape allows you to adjust your sound from tight and focused to a big round vintage tone, The dynamics control has earned a great reputation over the years for setting the transfer to smooth singing overdrive or raspy growling deep dynamics, continuously!
Barber adjustable phono style recovery stage- Most of the Barber Overdrive Pedals use a cool old style phonograph circuit to recover the frequencies lost in the overdrive stage, this worked great for vinyl and now works great for guitar overdrive!
