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Nocturne Brain Atomic Brain Gold – Wide Version. I( added another Nocturne Brain pedal by Tavo Vega. I already own the Mystery Brain Echo 301 that is on my main pedalboard. This Atomic Brain is going on my smaller pedalboard with the Strymon El Capistan and the Chase Tone Secret Preamp.

Tavo and family build these pedals by hand in very small batches and they are all outstanding, especially if you are4 trying to nail the Brian Setzer Rockabilly tones!

I bought this one direct from GearManDude who only used it for the demo video below. Basically brand new. Not sure Tavo is making the wider width ones anymore.

From Tavo’s Nocturne Brain website:
The Nocturne ATOMIC BRAIN™ PREAMP “wider box” version for the big booted folk. 🙂 No more stomping both switches at the same time..

All the great sound of the DYNOBRAIN w/ an ABBY* mode that opens up the preamp for solo’ing or adding more punch/crunch to power chord.

For your Electric Guitar, I’ve replicated a much improved Vintage Japanese 70’s preamp from the RE-301 Tape Delay machine known as the Space Echo. A Full sonic spectrum, preamplifier that is hand wired & loaded with hi-fidelity audio components; 22 gauge bonded copper strand wiring,, vishay metal film resistors in the audio path, socketed Opamp, Metal Film cap, Quality Sprague, Panasonic Electrolytics, etc w/ all flying leads to Alpha pots and switchcraft jacks w/ hardwire true bypass.

We’ve Improved the input impedence, extended the gain range & added a Bass cut that the original RE-301 didnt have, this aids in use with cranked small amp to keep the speaker from farting out AND when the Bass Cut is dialed back to 7 oclock, the tone sweep will give you a leaner, tighter modern flavor. Dial it back to 4-5 o’clock for the vintage full low mids of the original character and color. a “vintage-modern” contour if you will.

My pedals are Loaded with the best Hi Fidelity audio components; silver mica and metal film caps, vishay & xicon metal film resistors in the audio path, Nos sprague or nichicon electrolytics,socketed Opamp, Alpha pots and Switchcraft jacks plus HD stomp switch hardwired, true bypass. These components are upgraded from the original generic parts you will find in the vintage RE-301 space echo, that were very noisy. The original RE-301 was actually much quieter, w greater headroom than its predecessor the RE-201 that used random non spec carbon film resistors and transistors. So w our replication of the RE-301 space echo preamp, you are getting an even more quiet version. All our preamps operate at 9v and 12v. I prefer to run mine at 9v for more texture and saturation at max gain.

(*tech notes: ABBY MODE… this boost mode isnt acting like other drive boxes that employ cascading gain or double up on diode clipping . Its a bit of a unique approach to solve the request for a solo mode.
The “ABBY” is opening wide the preamp gain range. Guitar solo’s will stand above the band digging in at chorus intensity or even if at a turn around you want a cool melodic travis pickin pass.

The ABBY switch is taking your guitar from whatever level you have the NORMAL mode at (this normal mode is the Dyno Brain with a hair more open highs) and suddenly making everything like 35% more dynamic than it was (i hate using “touch sensitive”) so as you dig in for the solo the guitar is pushin into the amp or whatever is after it that much more. The more the normal channel gain is turned up, the more boost you will get from the “ABBY” mode. A neat by-product is that if you just keep both stompers on, the input impedance is now so responsive there is plenty of “rawk” avail for master volume amp guys.