HipKitty Products new release / The Glaze

HipKitty Products
The Glaze
boost/overdrive

A few months back Analog War Cry had a chance to check out the HipKitty Cream Distortion in our Pedal Hunt Podcast Reviews. The Cream Distortion was nothing shy of amazing, a warm, smooth, overdrive pedal with the characteristics of a vintage tube amp. Well HipKitty is at it again, this time with a boost/overdrive pedal known as The Glaze. For those of you who aren't hip to the HipKitty brand, I tell you these are a must for your pedalboard setup. HipKitty's known for their high quality, hand built, hand painted, and unique designs. Besides pedals they also produce a couple of guitar amps that look like they'd quench any gear junky's thirst, but for now we'll take a quick look a their new pedal, The Glaze boost/overdriver.

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HipKitty Products
is proud to announce the release of
The Glaze

The Glaze is a unique boost/overdrive pedal created for warmth and clarity to each note and chord played. The Glaze’s ability to expand and add to the upper harmonic content “Glaze” the upper register notes while allowing the lower register notes to retain clarity and focus.

The Gain control can allow for the most minimal boost level up to an overdriven tube sound at higher Gain settings. The Gain control has been described best as the “magic” control on the Glaze.

The Volume control circuit has enough volume boost to allow driving the amp’s preamp section into overdrive. Increasing this control past “unity” level can bring the amp’s sweet spots alive.

The Glaze made its initial debut at the 2009 Nashville Amp Expo in Nashville, Tennessee as a prototype test unit. Overwhelming feedback brought the Glaze to life.

Retail: $180.00 U.S.D.
Street: $135.oo U.S.D.

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Pedal Hunt Podcast Part: 1/ HipKitty Cream Distortion

Ok friends so we had posted earlier this month that we were gonna seek out the baddest, fattest, biggest sounding, sweetest voiced, cream of the crop Overdrive,Distortions, & Fuzz pedals we could find, well we found some real gems for you and we promise we won't disappoint. These next few articles will also be the debut of our podcasts and audio demos, we'll be dialing in, tweaking, and blasting all the pedals for your pedal junky needs. So set your stereos to STUN, grab a SICK pair of headphones, or CRANK your laptop as loud as it can go cause the next next few episodes and articles will feature a killer collection of stompboxes that will instantly add some character and life to your sound, songs, and amplifier. 

HipKitty Products

Cream Distortion

In Part 1 of our Pedal Hunt Podcasts we'll be talking about and demoing the Hipkitty Cream Distortion, a great classic rock voiced distortion pedal with tons of tube-like grit and crunch. This pedal even at it's lowest Drive setting sounds like a tube amp being pushed into velvety, smooth, and well...creamy overdrive, it's name suits it perfectly. Hipkitty's attention to detail both inside and out is an absolute work of art, literally, the pedals are all painted by hand and the outcome is stunning to say the least. Every setting on the Cream Distortion sounds like absolute heaven, my favorite is cranking the Drive knob and rolling back the guitar's volume. HipKitty Products hasn't been around as long as some of the other "boutique" pedal companies but that don't mean squat, the cats building their effects really have a talent for knocking out some timeless classics. Let's get this thing started and let's listen in shall we? 

Pedal Hunt Podcast #1 HipKitty Cream Distortion

(turn down your volume may be loud as hell!!!)

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