Gear Grinder Blog Detail

The Gear Grinder is based on the acclaimed Organ Grinder, only now it is in Stereo! The Organ Grinder was the first Lounsberry Pedal designed for keyboards. Developed with the aid of Roger Powell of Utopia and Meat Loaf fame, it provides a fat, tubelike overdrive for clonewheel organs that can cover the gamut of organ sounds from Greg Rollie, to Jon Lord, Uriah Heep, and even Canterbury sounds.

Like all Lounsberry Pedals it sounds and plays more like an amp than a pedal, bringing to mind the tube power amp section of an overdriven Leslie cabinet. As it easily handles the low notes, the Organ Grinder also sounds awesome with bass guitar. Itt is the ultimate shredding device for the keyboardist who wants to rock.

Operation is the same as the Organ Grinder. When channel one is the only input, the signal is routed to both outputs eliminating need for repatching when going from mono to stereo.

Lounsberry Pedals Gear Grinder features:

• Stereo gain staged preamp with Germanium diodes
• Gradual onset of overdrive. Easily controlled with a swell pedal
• Adds compression and second order harmonics
• Transparent drive that works well even with complex chord structures

From Greg:

“Like all Lounsberry Pedals it sounds and plays more like an amp than a pedal, bringing to mind the tube power amp section of an overdriven Leslie cabinet. As it easily handles the low notes, the Organ Grinder also sounds awesome with bass guitar. It is the ultimate shredding device for the keyboardist who wants to rock..” – Greg Lounsberry, Lounsberry Pedals

Top Reasons to Buy:

Very natural warm sounding circuit
Correct gain staging and compression makes the perfect Organ Overdrive
All Discrete components – No ICs or surface mount parts
Excellent stereo overdrive for keyboard workstations, digital guitar and bass rigs
True Bypass – 9V Battery Included

Designed and built in Smithsburg, Maryland, the Gear Grinder pedal is shipping now.