“I became obsessed with the idea and decided to reach out. I framed it like: ‘Would you be open to this if I worked on a prototype?’” How two of the pedal world’s most groundbreaking firms joined forces to make the ultimate overdrive

Chase Bliss Brothers AM: the next-gen drive pedal combines the Analog Man King of Tone with Chase Bliss's digital control UI.

When you think of AnalogMan and Chase Bliss, two of the finest independent pedal makers in the game today, the first thing that springs to mind probably isn’t journeys to Asia to source New Old Stock.

But that’s just what happened when AnalogMan’s Mike Piera and Chase Bliss’s Joel Korte got together to build their ultimate gain-inducing stompbox, the delightfully amp-soaking Brothers AM, which launched this year and, thus far, seems to be one of the most sought-after overdrive pedalboard solutions this side of the iconic Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer.