Thorpy FX Heavy Water Boost
ThorpyFX returns to the channel — this time with the Heavy Water, a dual boost that starts subtle and ends with your amp absolutely smashed. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.
In this episode the ThorpyFX Heavy Water Dual Boost takes center stage — featuring the Moon Guitars Moon Burn with Lambertones Lamber'Tron pickups, into the Benson Amps Monarch via the Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander set to the edge of breakup.
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The Heavy Water was born from player demand for the boost side of The Dane to be its own pedal. Adrian Thorpe being Adrian Thorpe, he didn't stop there — he paired it with a second boost featuring germanium diodes, giving the Heavy Water three genuinely distinct voices from two footswitches.
Right side (The Dane Boost): the same high headroom, transparent clean boost from The Dane. At low levels it sweetens and enhances without altering the core tone. Push the Boost knob and it drives the front of the amp progressively harder. The Lows control adds or removes low-end content — useful for fattening up single coils, tightening humbuckers into a drive pedal, or focusing the character of a cranked amp.
Left side (Germanium Boost): the same circuit architecture but with germanium diodes in the clipping stage. The result is a grittier, slightly compressed, more saturated boost character — more aggressive than the clean side, with a chewy warmth that the transparent right side doesn't produce. Higher output than the clean side at equivalent Boost knob settings.
Both sides combined (explored from 08:29): the clean boost runs into the Ge boost, combining the transparent level-lifting of the right side with the germanium grit of the left. Into an amp already at the edge of breakup, both sides stacked produces results that range from heavy saturation to genuinely intense amp-smashing distortion. Each side independently set allows enormous range of stacked character.
Four controls total: Boost and Lows per side. Independent footswitches. Built in Adrian Thorpe's signature custom stainless steel enclosure — bulletproof construction, top-mounted jacks, compact footprint. 9V DC center negative only. No battery.
🎛️ ThorpyFX Heavy Water: https://thorpyfx.com/en-us/products/heavy-water-double-booster
🎸 Moon Guitars: https://www.moon-guitars.com
🎸 Lambertones: https://lambertones.store
🔊 Benson Amps: https://www.bensonamps.com/guitar-amplifiers
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🎸 Moon Guitars Moon Burn | Lambertones Lamber'Tron Pickups
🎛️ ThorpyFX Heavy Water | Dane Clean Boost + Ge Diode Boost | Boost + Lows per Side | Independent Footswitches | Stackable
🔊 Benson Amps Monarch | Boss Waza TAE
Recording: Universal Audio Apollo x4 | Lauten Audio LS-208 | Royer R10 & R121 | Sennheiser E906 | Ableton Live 12
