As Jack White continues his one-of-a-kind tour behind new album No Name, the prolific garage rocker and label boss has found the time to co-create a new reverb pedal through his Third Man Hardware company. The La Grotte analog spring reverb pedal is available to pre-order now.
Made in collaboration with French guitar pedals company Anasounds, the pedal includes separate volume controls for the direct sound and the reverb, as well as a two-band EQ that only affects the reverb tone. It's available in standard black through Third Man's webstore and in limited-edition yellow through the company's Reverb store.
"It's been a lifetime of searching for a small real spring reverb effect unit that could be used as a stomp box on stage or in the studio," White said in a statement. "The hang up is that you normally have to use really long springs to get a good sound, making the unit too large. With the La Grotte pedal, it was the addition of the third spring that really brought this sound alive and gave us the ability to have that long decay from a real spring in a small box. In addition the built in drive/boost feature you get from the 'dry' knob is very impressive in how it elevates the signal you are sending to the springs."
Watch White play with the reverb pedal in the demo below. Find more specs over at the pre-order page. It costs $300 USD.