Lovepedal has been a very popular name in boutique guitar effects pedals for several years now, due in no small part to designer Sean Michael's dedication to quality and the "less is more" aesthetic of guitar tone.

Sean began designing guitar pedal circuits in the early nineties in a quest for classic tones that he just couldn't seem to get out of the mass-produced rack units that dominated the market at the time. After several years of trial and error the Love Pedal FAB 50 was born, a one-knob masterpiece that beautifully simulated a cranked Marshall at the lower gain settings and a nasty fuzz tone at the upper end. This success led to more pedals and the extensive line of Lovepedal tone tools available today.

One of the standards of the Love Pedal lineup is the COT 50 Boost / Overdrive, or "Church of Tone". This pedal nails the early Hendrix and Billy Gibbons tones. It's a must for lovers of articulate, raw guitar sounds with no compression artifacts. The COT only features one knob, a bias control, that controls the overall gain of the pedal. All other controlling is done from the guitar. The Lovepedal COT 50 is a pedal you can leave on all the time and get a diverse range of tones just by varying your guitar volume knob. Set this thing for "stun", proceed to rock out, and then when you roll off your guitar volume it will clean up like a drunk before Sunday Mass.

The Lovepedal COT 50 Gold is a new edition of the venerable COT 50, with the edition of a master volume control and a vintage tone stack. All the same clear, uncompressed Church of Tone sounds and guitar volume interaction, but with additional tone options for the tweakers among us.

The Lovepedal Eternity delivers fantastic, tubey overdrive at every setting. You just can't make this pedal sound bad. The extremely interactive controls offer you three knob options for sculpting overdrive sounds; Drive, Level (clean boost), and Glass which functions as a treble booster. Through variation of the Drive and Level knobs you can alter the mix of pedal distortion sound and your amp's natural overdrive characteristics, giving you a myriad of tone options. Through manipulation of the Glass knob you can dial in some sweet Brian May style tones, or roll it off for some dark, warm goodness. The Love Pedal Eternity has developed a huge following and is currently played by Andy Summers of The Police and Richard Fortus of Guns N' Roses, among others. The Love Pedal Super 6 is so-called because it sounds like a Fender Super set on 6. This is a fantastic pedal for vintage American overdrive sounds. Just plug it into any clean amp and you'll have sixties blackface tone out the wahzoo! The vintage tone stack built in it gives you excellent control over your tone, and the ability to make a small amp sound VERY large.

Check out Sean's interview with Six String Soul.