Hot Mess

Is your amp on fire?

 

   

 

The Hot Mess rack effect module compares to the Pete Cornish NG-3 pedal.  The circuit is meant to sound like your amp is damaged, maybe already smoking, and about to die.  Pete Cornish calls the tone "IAD" for Imminent Amp Death.  There are no clean tones to be found.  It provides heavy fuzz with all sorts of splatty, gated, spitting nastiness available at the turn of a knob.  

 

Description

The Gerlt Technologies Hot Mess compares to the Pete Cornish NG-3.  The circuit is designed to sound like your amp is badly damaged and about to die, but with you completely in control of the chaos.  There are no normal fuzz tones to be found in this circuit.  All settings sound like something is seriously wrong in your rig.  But the thing is, instead of something seriously wrong that is out of control, you have pretty good control over the situation.  You can dial in some noise.  You can control how much spit and splatter you get.  You can control how much gating you get.  And in that realm of options to control, there are a lot of fuzz tones that are difficult to describe beyond "hot mess", thus our name for the module.

Drive sort of controls the level of fuzz, along with Sustain.  Bias controls how much of the signal continues through the circuit.  When you dial it down, you get splatty, velcro, glitchy, and more gating.  Tone and Volume are the only controls that do what you would expect.

 

Configurations

  • Hot Mess - Compares to the Pete Cornish NG-3

 

Options

This is unique circuit that provides controlled chaos.  While it has a good range of chaotic tone options, it would seem to be useful in limited settings.  It covers its intended space well, so we have no options to offer.

 

Front Panel

  • On/Off indicator LED
  • Volume control
  • Tone control
  • Drive control
  • Sustain control
  • Bias control

 

Rear Panel

  • Audio In
  • Audio Out
  • On/Off Footswitch
  • On/Off Override
  • DC Power
  • DC Power LED

 

Module Width

  • 2", left and right wing options not presently available

 

Power Consumption (aprox)

12 - 16 mA

 

Base Configurations

Part # Description List Price
MOD-HOTMESS Hot Mess module  $240

 

Options

 N/A