Here’s a really exciting project Tom and Neil have been working on. The first ever signature Los Campesinos! guitar pedal, imagined by the band and designed and built by Buzzing Bugs Audio Devices.

MORTAL JOY is a meticulously created guitar effects pedal, designed to recreate the primary guitar sounds used on the new album.

It’s gain, it’s lo-fi, it’s saturation, it’s tape, it’s All Hell!

LC! lead guitarist and producer Tom Bromley says this about the pedal:

“MORTAL JOY will make things sound worse in the best possible way, and we’re really proud of it.

Taking inspiration from pedals we use, as well as some of the sounds on All Hell, we designed Mortal Joy with 3 main switches: one that adds dirt, one that can create a lofi tape quality, and one that engages a drastic narrow band-pass filter. Used individually or in combination with each other, these switches can create a wide variety of big, overdriven tones, but also the really tiny, shrunken sounds of a transistor radio or one of those novelty cigarette amps, with potential for massive dynamic shifts with just one switch.

With the LFOs engaged you can also make things sound beautiful and warbly like an old cassette tape, or push them to make more extreme bendy vibrato sounds, all with an element of randomness as things bounce in and around each other. If you like the sound of old cassettes, DIY bedroom pop, warped vinyl, transistor radios or lofi bands from the 90s, or you’re just embarrassed you spent too much money hiring a fancy studio and need things to sound a little less shiny, then this is the pedal for you”

The first batch of the pedal sold out in a matter of hours, but v2 is currently available to pre-order, scheduled to ship in mid-September.

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