Boost your guitar signal up to 23dB with the ZVEX Super Hard On (Vexter Series). Experience a clear and powerful tone with this versatile and compact pedal. Increase your volume and cut through the mix with ease. Perfect for live performances and recording sessions.

The Super Hard On, or ‘SHO’ as ZVEX fondly refer to it, is an ultra-transparent boost that goes from unity gain to a whooping 60 times the original size (watch out!), while adding a delightful high-end clarity with its 5 million ohm input impedance.

This is the perfect preamp pedal. The “Crackle Okay” volume knob is a negative-feedback control styled after classic 60’s recording console inputs. (They crackled when adjusted too).

Most vintage guitars suffer from steadily deteriorating magnets in their pickups, since permanent magnets aren’t really forever. The Super Hard-On’s input impedance is so high (>5 Meg) that it refuses any current flow from your pickup... maintaining the most magnetic field around each string, so you can hear exactly what your pickup sounded like the day it came off the winder.

The output level can exceed 8 volts peak, and when it finally distorts, the wave is shaped like triode overload, not fuzz. It’s so transparent no one will be able to tell you’re using a pedal. Perfect for making the most of a classic amp and guitar, because it simply makes your guitar bigger and pushes the amp harder, causing natural overload. This sound can be the solution to the ‘disappearing guitar’ effect you get sometimes on stage when you stomp on your distortion and sound weaker. When cranked, it sounds much louder than a fuzz or distortion under stage conditions.

Key Features:

• Ultra-transparent boost pedal with up to 60 times original size.
• Delivers high-end clarity with a 5 million ohm input impedance.
• Features a "Crackle Okay" volume knob for negative-feedback control.
• Maintains magnetic field around each string with >5 Meg input impedance, preserving pickup sound quality.
• Output level can exceed 8 volts peak without fuzz distortion.
• Transparent sound ensures pedal use is undetectable, ideal for classic amp and guitar setups.
• Amplifies guitar signal, pushing amp harder for natural overload, preventing the "disappearing guitar" effect on stage.