The Lover V2 - Available Now (via the Webshop)
- Top Jacks
- Soft Switching Relay True Bypass
- Improved Frequency Response (tweaked highs)
- Upgraded Socket PCBs
- Red hot transistors ready to knock your socks off
- Serial Numbers returned to ZERO
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Nic
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I did a trade with @nonhumanaudio Dave Jordan last year and I never got round to recording anything of the pedals. He's making some stunningly interactive and intuitive musical pedals and I highly recommend you go check them out.
Unclean is a beautifully simple but wide ranging drive pedal with great tone, and Slow Loris, well, if you don't know it by now, go check it out. Awesome work, Dave, congrats.
Despite the company name hes also a totally lovely human being. Go pick something up and support an amazing builder!
✌️
Apologies that there's such minimal stock in the shop atm. As it stands there are 3 x The External / Internal, 2 x TE/I Ghosts + 1 x Falling Man immediately in stock and ready to ship alongside the 5 x remaining King Alex II pre-orders for May.
There's been huge numbers of pre-orders for, well, just about everything that was on pre-order and we don't want to keep people waiting too long and over promise. Plus we've been inundated with Retail Partner orders, servicing various pre-orders and preparing for Seafarer.
There'll be more drops very soon though! Keep an eye out for King Alex II next week, Big Talker the week after and to infinity and beyond.... Or something like that.
Big.big.love
Nic
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This is the breadboard of our next release, Seafarer - a reverb. Feedback about it at the last couple pedal shows in it's various stages of development has been really exciting and incredibly encouraging. More time has been sunk into it than I care to admit, but I am so happy that I saw it through. The feature set and footprint are somewhat bigger than our others pedals, but I hope you'll agree that it's worth it the extra centimetres.
Seafarer - coming this June.
It'll be incredibly feature rich for an analogue reverb with some interesting twists - all ready to be explored at great depth. Keep your eyes peeled for more in the coming weeks. Thanks for sticking round, folks!
Big.big.love
Nic
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From clean boost all the way through to complete destruction, The Lover has it all:
THE LOVER - Heartwarming Sparkling Cleanboost/Overdrive/Fuzz
- Two stage transistor Drive Pedal
- Soft Switching True Bypass
- 3 knobs - Gain, Diode Clipping + Volume
- 3 switches - Low Pass Filter, Hi Pass Filter + Bias
- Filters are internally adjustable
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Nic
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TREMOLO PEDAL. Whenever I need to build up a big emotional climax, I bust out BIG TALKER by @emptyheadeffects and keep my hand on the tremolo rate. Cranking up the speed of a tremolo is a like racing down a rollercoaster. It’s a rush.
You can’t stay speeding downward forever. Eventually your eyeballs dry out and G-forces force you in unconsciousness. The point is that you need slow points to make the seem all the faster in comparison.
GHOST by @endorphin.es is providing a touch of stereo delay. @puremagnetik LAPS is looping three copies of a burst of @chasebliss MOOD noise. @myvolts CANDYCORDS continue to look pretty. .
#tremolopedals #ambientpedalboard #emptyheadeffectsbigtalker #pedaldemos #ambientmusicproducer
Empty Head are going on holiday tomorrow.
That's right. We're putting down the soldering iron & the oscilloscopes and taking a hard earned break for a week. We'll be back on 13/04/2026.
You folks have basically bought us out and I've had to turn everything to pre-order. The shop will still be open taking orders, but shipping will be delayed until our return. We're in need of some time off before we burn this ship to the ground. ✌️🤯🔥
The good news? A massive parts order (the biggest yet) has just been placed. What's next I hear you cry? The Lover, King Alex II, then maybe something new, then The External / Internal, then Big Talker, because yes, we are in actuality sold out of all the 'production run' units of most of the models. 😵
There is still one or two The Lover V1 Ghosts and a Production Run unit, as well as Falling Man, and some one off finishes on the webshop including some pretty bargainous bargains to be had if you're hoping to secure something in the meantime. If you get in quick, I will be able to get it out of the door before tomorrow morning, but after that, shipping will be delayed until 13/04/2026.
So from the bottom of hearts, 1000x thank you! For now, shoo shoo, and leave us to twiddle our thumbs and read trashy novels for a bit. Thanks, you creative, kind, generous, awesome people, you.
Big.big.love
Nic
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The Lover 2.0 has been out a few weeks now and the second batch is well underway.
If you're a fan of loud noises, people saying "oh that pedal is really beautiful and sounds great" to you from the audience at the front of stage, then you should pick one up now. No better time than the present! Or is that, no better present than a present to yourself?
Show us a video of what you've been up to with your pedal and we'll share it in kind on our socials. Thanks for all the love, folks. It's been a ride!
Big.big.love
Nic
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