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World Music Nashville stocks the exciting, tone-driven, tube-dripping pedals of Swell. Swell Pedals are hammered to submit to the desires of guitarists and bass players yearning for the ultimate ear candy treat. If you are looking for pedals made of the finest components and by the most exacting standards give Swell your ear for a test drive.

Oh, and one of the coolest features of theses pedals: for only a few extra bucks you can get alternalte extra tubes for the pedals.  Then you have a variety of extra tone options you can swap in and out on your own.

What the Users Say

KUDOS on the design of this pedal! It is exactly what I was looking for. I’ve been playing guitar for around 25 years and have yet to hear a pedal that does overdrive/distortion as well as the G-TOD —Mark, MN

The Box Rocks!!! I love the transparency, the low end, the drive…all cool. —Dave, IL

TONE …TONE …TONE! The G-TOD is one amazing animal. It sounds way sweet. Cops “Funk 49″ to a “T”. —Greg, TN

The first gig I used it with my Strat I had guys coming up to me asking how I was getting my tone! —Danni, TN

I tried it with my Mesa Boogie Maverick, and I think I saw God. —David, TX

“Clearly” the best distortion pedal I have ever played through! —Larry “HAZE” Hazelbacher, Artist

As far as note definition this pedal is the king. Here’s the coolest part…this thing cleans up beautifully with rolling back the guitar volume. Not a hint of hair. I do not know of any other pedal that does this. —Dan, TN

This is the first pedal that allows the true tone of my guitars to shine through. —Jim, FL

A little from swell, Swell, SWELL

We are proud to be a small American company located in a place known around the world as “Music City”. We live and work here with some of the most talented players ever to have picked up an instrument. Here in Nashville the making of music is not just a business; it is a way of life.

At SWELL we have dedicated and spent our lives in the pursuit of creating both music and the tools used to bring that music to life. Our goal at SWELL Pedals is to design and build the best pedal effects possible, audiophile-quality effects that you can stomp on. Extreme attention was paid to even the smallest details; nothing was overlooked which led to design and ultimately redefine the vacuum-tube effect pedal. SWELL Pedal products are the union of classic tube technology coupled with innovative circuit designs to bring you the ultimate in what we consider to be a musical instrument in its own right—the effect pedal.

Over the years these multi-colored boxes at our feet have provided the inspiration that has allowed us to create. Bringing to life what lives and breathes in our imaginations and souls—music. Great tone inspires people to make great music.

From an interview with MikeO, Swell Creator

What is it that sets your product apart?

Well, the goal at Swell is to design and build the best pedal effects possible, audiophile-quality effects that you can stomp on. All swell products are vacuum- tube based because like most players, I believe the best overdrive/distortion tone is tube-based. The same with compression and so on. And our circuit designs really put the tubes to work; more than 100 volts is generated and delivered to the tube in each pedal!

When I designed these pedals, I paid extreme attention to even the smallest details; nothing was overlooked, which led to design and ultimately redefine the vacuum-tube effect pedal. They’re small, dead quiet, completely transparent, and each pedal offers dual functionality, which means that depending on which pedal you’re using, there’s a dedicated footswitch to select between Drive 1 or Drive 2, Boost 1 or Boost 2, or the sweepable mid independently of Bass and treble on the VM-TEQ. It’s like getting two pedals for the price of one. The entire Swell product line is built on this Dual Functionality platform which translates into more value for the customers money. Last but not least, by allowing substitution of one tube for another, swell pedals can be tweaked to fit a player’s specific needs in less time than it typically takes to tune a guitar.

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