Obie Audio Great Raven

Obie Audio Great Raven

Great Raven is our first entry into the world of gain, combining a clean boost, overdrive, and active EQ into a sleek form factor. These three circuits can be used independently as desired, or stacked to deliver punishing amounts of grit! The origins of the overdrive circuit are rather well known (and rather, ahem... green?), but that's where the comparisons end. LED symmetrical soft-clipping delivers powerful dynamics and touch sensitivity, and the range of gain covers the cleans to the means.

The Boost is completely transparent, and can deliver up to 20dB of volume! Used independently, it serves perfectly as a lead boost, but when combined with the overdrive, Great Raven is transformed into a massive tonal beast! Lastly, Great Raven's Weight and Clarity knobs are comprised of two active EQ bands, delivering a huge amount of bass and presence respectively to the clean/boosted/overdrive output. As a sum of its disparate parts, Great Raven represents our attempt to cover the entire spectrum of gain tones, in a reasonably simple and small format. 

Circuit topology:

    Boost —>Overdrive—>Weight + Clarity

Left Footswitch: Overdrive

- Volume: Overdrive output volume

- Gain: Amount of clipping/distortion

- Tone: Low Pass Filter- reduces high end frequencies in Overdrive

- Voicing: Active High Pass Filter- reduces low end frequencies in Overdrive

SELECT: determines activation of Right Footswitch

- Boost

- Weight + Clarity

- Both

Right Footswitch: Boost and/or Weight + Clarity

- Boost: 20dB clean boost before Overdrive

- Weight: Active bass boost after Overdrive

- Clarity: Active presence boost after Overdrive