Z. Vex Super Hard-On (Zvex)

 All Z. Vex pedals are hand painted and hand assembled, and each is unique. The pedal you purchase may vary in appearance from these photos. The perfect preamp pedal. Makes your guitar bigger and pushes the amp harder, causing natural overload. Helps solve the "disappearing guitar" effect (when you stomp on your distortion on stage and sound weaker). When cranked on stage, it sounds much louder than a fuzz or distortion   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 ouput 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 te