Flattley Revolution
The Flattley Revolution pedal was recently featured in Guitarist Magazine Issue 474 August 2021.
The Flattley Revolution pedal was also given the “Guitarist Choice” award which is a testament to the Revolution pedal’s tonal flexibility and quality.
The “Revolution” dynamic overdrive pedal is a powerful and very flexible overdrive pedal. It’s based on a tube screamer style circuit but on “steroids” giving you smooth creamy overdrive tones full of depth and reactive sounds depending on your style of playing. It comes installed with a three-way toggle switch which gives you complete overdrive tonal flexibility when you need it. With the switch in the centre position the overdrive circuit runs through an Op amp integrated circuit, the switch in the upper/forward position the circuit runs through silicon diodes, the switch in the rearward/aft position runs through LED diodes providing three different types of overdrive clipping. The Revolution gives you three separate overdrive pedals in one box.
The blue halo light ring installed diffuses the light when playing live, avoiding being blinded by the standard LEDs just as you are about to go into that all important solo thus giving a larger area to see where the pedal is located easily on the pedal board on darkened stages. The addition of the aluminium foot topper gives you more real estate for contact when switching the pedal on and off during quick changes when playing live.
All Flattley “Platinum Range” pedals are hand processed in the Flattley paint shop. The bare aluminium enclosure is abraded prior to painting with the etch primer. The etch primer acts as an anti corrosive layer and allows the primer to bond to the enclosure ensuring a tough resilient paint finish. Multiple coats of base coat primer are applied which are then lightly abraded to remove any blemishes or paint speckles prior to the application of the base colour. We apply several coats of base colour until an even coverage occurs and the base colour develops rich smooth depth. Metallic holographic chrome flake is then applied using a clear inter coat which adds that all important Flattley sparkle. The pedal enclosure is then ready to be hydro dipped in its Flattley graphics. This is the process whereby the graphics are applied using water activated film, the residual PVA film is then washed off and the enclosure is then allowed to dry naturally.
Once dried the lacquer process begins. Each “Flattley Platinum” pedal has a minimum of three coats of lacquer which are all wet sanded between coats. Once the lacquer has hardened, it is then hand polished using three different grades of polishing compounds and it then has a final polish to achieve a high gloss finish using a wool finishing pad. This process gives the smooth deep lustre finish that is inherent in all Flattley Guitar and Bass effects pedals.
Aditional Information
Volume: Controls the volume level of the effect
Drive: Controls the gain of the effect
Tone: Controls the amount of treble/bass
Toggle Switch: Selects the type of overdrive clipping. Up=Silicon Diode, Centre=Op Amp, Down=LED Diode.
• The Revolution comes in a 125B Enclosure (LxWxD): 119x64x40mm (including lid) (69 x 2.52 x 1.57 inch)
• Standard negative centre,-9v dc tip power supply unit/power brick required
• No internal 9v dc battery function
• 20mm anodised aluminium custom etched control knobs
• Blue halo light ring installed
• The Revolution comes with a purple custom etched aluminium foot topper
• This edition comes in black, holographic chrome metal flake and silver paisley skulls hydro graphics.
All Flattley pedals are handmade, hand wired, boutique custom guitar and bass pedal effects manufactured in the UK using only the highest quality components ensuring every aspect of the pedal’s build process results in a truly outstanding product.