Meme king Chibson is back with another pun-tastic pedal, and the Drive is such an obvious play on Google’s highly popular cloud storage service that it’s mystifying that it wasn’t made sooner.
Landing on April Fool’s Day – the firm's favorite launch date – the overdrive pedal is obviously very witty in its marketing and messaging, but miraculously, it isn’t solely here for the punchline.
The Chibson Drive, made in collaboration with Acorn Amps, has been programmed to “get the data-driven results musicians dream of having.”
Of course, the jokes don't stop there, with the pedal supposedly loved for its “synchronization of an overdriven signal from the 3-dial, custom-voiced ‘Storage Against The Machine’ Data Center Circuit.” But beyond its side-splitting silliness, what does the pedal actually offer?
Well, its controls are in classic OD territory, with dials for Storage (Volume), Spam (Tone), and Trash (Drive), and it packs a USB socket for gain stacking and charging external devices, because why on earth not?
Expect a “mid-forward punch and creamy harmonic saturation,” with the stompboxes hand-built by Acorn Amplifiers at its Atlanta, Georgia headquarters.
Acorn is the firm behind the Solid State preamp pedal, based on Josh Homme's secret weapon amp, the Peavey Decade, and the TMA-1 fuzz pedal, which lets users toggle between germanium and silicon clipping. That, and a raft of amplifiers, of course, which are often housed in rather fetching Baltic birch boxes. So expectations are high.
It's not the first time that comedy genius, Chibson, has dropped a pedal on April 1st, with the Klon-styled Priority Delay arriving in 2024.
In recent times, it’s also turned to movie-making, having spearheaded a documentary on Robert Plant’s favorite band, Dread Zeppelin. It isn’t, however, responsible for Machine Gun Kelly’s razor blade guitar – a fact that left many gearheads shook when it was launched.
The Chibson x Acorn Amps Drive pedal is priced at $189, and is available to order now.
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Here's to hoping it's working on an Ask Jeeves-styled AI prompts pedal a la the Polyend next.
