Want To Build One Yourself?

The Drive Thru kit comes with an eyelet board for easy soldering and a pre-drilled enclosure. You’ll have to do your own box graphics and finish, but in every other way, the kit and the pre-assembled Drive Thru are identical. A set of clear instructions in PDF format will be sent to you when you purchase a kit.

The Drive Thru can take you from a clean boost all the way to crunchy overdrive. With two operating modes – Ge (Germanium) and Si (Silicon) - and interactive controls, this is a very versatile pedal.

The Ge (Germanium) side sounds sweetest, with thicker and more textured mids. It works best if the amp is already overdriving and it just needs a bit more kick. Alternatively, you can use this setting for a clean boost or adding a hint of extra drive. Best for Vox and cathode biased Fender tweed tones.

The Si (Silicon) setting can provide a clean boost too, but crank up the gain and it’s more driven and crunchy. Si is particularly effective at low volume levels, when you need the feel and sustain of a cranked valve amp. Best for Marshall Plexi and Fender Black Panel tones.

What Inspired It

The Drive Thru was developed to give you a cranked valve amp sound at any volume level without compromising the dynamics or tone.

There’s no snake oil here - the key to the Drive Thru’s tone and feel is the way it’s hand wired using amplifier grade resistors and capacitors.

What Makes It Special

I’m not pretending there’s some mysterious mojo or electronic wizardry behind all this. There are only so many ways to make an overdrive pedal. They key to the incredible tone and feel of the Drive Thru is the way it’s built.

The Drive Thru has carbon composite resistors, a mixture of paper oil and silver mica capacitors and a special cocktail of clipping diodes. The components and op amp were carefully selected after extensive listening tests and not all diodes sound alike - even when they have the same parts designation. True bypass switching and super bright LEDs are standard and the amp style metal jack sockets are chassis mounted.