Anyone who watches Chris Buck’s always entertaining Friday Fretworks videos on his YouTube channel will have already heard this ThorpyFX pedal, as it’s been on his pedalboard for quite some time now, albeit in disguised form, making it the subject of much speculation. Now revealed as the Electric Lightning, it is, in fact, the Cardinal Black guitarist’s signature pedal.
The brief for the pedal was to create an overdrive with an independent clean boost so that Buck had a one-box solution to deliver his own sound, no matter what backline he had access to.
