499 USD
Pax Harmonia is a Unique Incandescent Univibe, a collection of "one of one" pedal designs.
Each with its own unique iteration of the circuit. Each with its own unique art.
It seems harder and harder to find something is just your own - sonically and visually unique to you, that nobody else has.
This is what Pax Harmonia offers.
Designing Pax Harmonia I had two goals....
Goal One:
Create an optical univibe that delivered every single one of the classic univibe sounds that a heart could possibly desire for.
From Jimi to Dave Gilmour. George Harrison to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Robert Fripp to Robin Trower. And everything and everyone else.
Built with through hole components, hand wired with a beautiful incandescent bulb that pulses perfectly to an internal audience of 4 light dependent resistors (controlling the phase shift an ultra unique way), in it’s bespoke, nickel plated pressed steel amphitheatre! 100% analog with premium Neutrik sockets and an ultra long life true-bypass footswitch .
But not only did it have to deliver all those mouth watering sounds that we all love…. I wanted to design it in such a way so that (unlike the original univibe, that needed its own, very specific, expression pedal)you can plug in an off the shelf expression pedal and be able to control the velocity of the modulation. And I did…..and you can!
Because part of the original univibes beauty was being able to control the speed with your foot.(I recommend the Moog EP3 - it’s built like a tank and only costs $56 from Sweetwater.)
Goal Two:
To take Fumio Mieda’s genius original design from the 1960’s, and expand on it. To offer you more univibe flavours and features than anyone has ever offered before.
So I have.
Pax Harmonia has a myriad of additional, unique features. Including:
Two modes:
An internal slide switch lets you run Pax Harmonia in "classic" mode or in “interstellar” mode - which offers a different flavour of tone, phase shift, reaction and “immersion” in the modulation. Basically, two different univibes in one box - simply slide the switch to change between the two.
A Dialable Vibrato/ Chorus:
The original univibe had a switch to select between the two options of chorus mode (the sound we immediately identify as “the univibe sound” or, vibrato mode ( a more subtle pitch shift vibrato).I have replaced this two option switch with a dial. This enables you to create your own blend of “vibrato” and “chorus” mode. A myriad of new and utterly useable flavours are opened up through this dial.
A Depth control that has impact at any speed:
The original univibe effect was always less pronounced at slower speeds - Pax Harmonia offers a depth control that allows you to dial in everything from the most subtle pulses to the most swirling, light-speed-through-the-cosmos sounds.You can get the exact sound of the original but you also have a multitude of additional setting options. At any speed.
A Speed Control that offers more:
Pax Harmonia can pulse faster than the original and Pax Harmonia can pulse slower than the original. More faster. More slower. I was delighted to work with the original “Godfather” of boutique effects, my friend Mr Paul Crowther (creator of “The Hotcake” overdrive - released in 1976, used by everyone from Keith Richards, Thurston Moore, Buzz Osbourne, J Mascis and billion other great players, and still made at his home by him and his wife) - on the design of the LFO (low frequency oscillator) section of the Pax Harmonia. He’s a genius - and Pax Harmonia benefits from that.
To be clear - every single one of the 99 Pax Harmonia pedals has its own unit version of the circuit. No two Pax Harmonia sound the same. The specific sound your pedal makes is yours and yours alone.
Every facet of the designs have been refined and refined and refined.
And every single one of them sounds glorious. I promise.
The Artwork
Ever since I first heard Jimi use a univibe, I’ve always associated that sound with feelings of the deep ocean and the life far below the surface…. the fluid movement of unseen deep sea creatures, languidly floating on invisible currents in the mysterious deep.
This is what inspired the artworks. Starting with old Victorian book of “creatures of the deep” line illustrations and then transforming them into the otherworldly, psychedelic phantoms and foliage that adorn the Pax Harmonia pedals. I’m thrilled with the result.
None of these images will ever be used again on another pedal. The image on your pedal is the only pedal it will ever appear on. Ever. Just like the circuit.
It’s your own one of one.
All units will shipped via tracked DHL express international and shipping is free, anywhere in the world.
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