Every builder has a "flagship" product that is a cut above everything else offered and that is more of a labor of love rather than anything else and the Pistol Slapper is Maritime's flagship.
Based on the extremely rare Hawk II Tonal Expander booster made in limited numbers by S. Hawk Ltd. back in the 1970's and used by Rory Gallagher. Maritime took that effect and improved upon it in many ways while still keeping the core tone of the original available in the Pistol Slapper. No more scouring classifieds or eBay to find an expensive original. The tone is in here.
The Pistol Slapper was developed with my original Hawk II right beside it to ensure the core sound would stay authentic, available and intact.
Some features of the Pistol Slapper include:
More gain available and much less noise than the original.
3 band independent EQ for cut and boost tone shaping.
Footswitchable treble boost.
Fine tune the treble boosts frequency and response with the Filter and Select controls.
Circuit runs on 18V for maximum headroom and power. while still only requiring a regular 9V DC power supply.
Bi-colour LED. Green is standard mode while red is treble booster mode.
A superb clean booster. Turn the level most of the way up, with the gain down low and use the EQ to dial in your sound.
Open, natural and dynamic tone, with no clipping diodes.
True Bypass
Tons of output power. This pedal can get loud.
Built by hand in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Top mounted jacks for smaller pedalboard footprint.
Super strong, heavy duty, ultra high quality 2 piece enclosure made by Road Rage Pro Gear here in Canada. Road Rage Pro Gear is a world leader in switchboxes and manufactures some of the highest quality pedal enclosures used anywhere. We wanted the best for this pedal and they supplied it.
The Pistol Slapper is unlike any other booster or overdrive you've tried and responds differently than your standard textbook overdrive pedal. The EQ controls operate to shape the tone completely independent of each other.
Works great with amps with limited controls, use it as an extra channel. Use it to brighten a dark sounding amp or darken a bright sounding amp. Add some brightness to your humbuckers or take some of the edge off your single coils.
An amazing clean booster. Set the drive to low, the level all the way up and the treble boost off. With the EQ controls set neutral (around 12 o'clock) your natural tone shines though, use the EQ controls to cut or boost to fine tune your clean boosted tone. The natural tone of the original is in there too. Set the Level all the way up as the original didn't have a volume control. With the drive set to the far left it is the stock tone, moving the drive to around 3 o'clock give you the sound of the "gain boost switch". For the original treble boosted sound set the Filter all the way up and the Select switch to position #4 from the left.
