The TAMPCO Tone Oven Custom is a limited edition of an overdrive celebrated for its warmth and transparency. While the original design required cracking open the enclosure to tweak internal trimmers, this special release relocates those crucial Bass and Comp controls straight to the front panel for effortless adjustments on the fly.
Designed to cook your tone without choking your natural low end, the pedal features a streamlined, intuitive control set:
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Core Knobs: Curiously named standard controls for Fan (output level), Temp (shaping high frequencies), and Time (dialing in the warmth and saturation) provide a transparent, organic foundation that preserves your instrument’s core character.
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Grill Mode: Engaged via a dedicated footswitch, Grill mode layers on a second, more aggressive saturation circuit (inspired by hard-clipping architectures) to instantly cook your tone, add a crisp crunchy edge, and push your guitar straight out in front of the mix for solos.
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Front-Panel Tweaks: The updated exterior layout gives you immediate, hands-on access to a dedicated Bass-Cut toggle to instantly tighten up low frequencies in a live mix, alongside a headroom switch to tailor the compression profile of the Grill circuit.
Whether you are using it as an always-on warmer to push the front end of a tube amp or kicking in the Grill mode for a biting, high-gain edge, this limited run keeps all the dynamic feel of the original while making tone-shaping simpler than ever.
