PettyJohn Predrive, User Manual

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Congratulations on becoming the owner of an 

Pettyjohn PreDrive! We sincerely hope this pedal 

inspires you to play your guitar more and gives 

you years of solid performance. The PreDrive is 

the FIRST pedal to utilize ultra high-quality discrete 

opamps and is built with the highest quality stu-

dio-grade components throughout making it a truly 

professional tool for tone shaping. The PreDrive has 

many features and we highly recommend taking the 

time to go through this manual thoroughly when 

you first plug it in.

The PreDrive is designed to be the first pedal in 

your chain. We recommend starting with the Pre-

Drive set up in this location to get most value out of 

the high quality circuitry and features designed spe-

cifically for this usage. The PreDrive is our flagship 

preamp pedal and serves as an un-paralleled studio 

grade input buffer, preamp, clean boost, unique 

tone filters, signal splitter, direct/re-amp box, and 

even an incredibly open and responsive low gain 

overdrive! The tonal qualities of the PreDrive range 

from pristinely clean to full-on mojo as you push 

the premium analog circuitry to its limits. We have 

compelled 4 basic presets that will greatly assist you 

in understanding what this pedal can do and serve 

as a starting place for getting inspiring tone!