Our friend Michael at Relic Music in Red Bank, NJ has been a champion of our work for years, and swears by his limited run “Columbia-katakana” Olympia that we made for him over a decade ago. He’s been asking us to make them again since we stopped making this pedal a decade ago.
So now, we’ve brought back a very limited run for this holiday season. Made on the exact same circuit boards by hand, in a limited silver and black colorway with oxblood Davies knobs. In addition to recreating this very limited run enclosure art, we even found our old manuals, and the original box stickers with Bianca’s original art from back in the day.
A limited supply will be available at this link from Relic Music and our direct store here (update: ours have sold out). You want to hear it in action? Check out the YouTube video below at 7:03 or the classic Pete Thorn demo on the page.
We promised if there were any of these special industrially etched Kilobyte-2000s by Clint McDuffie at Deep Space Devices left from the Brooklyn Pedal Show, we’d make them available to y’all first. Well, we’re keeping that promise. A literal handful of these are available, either with the standard graphic etch, or a departure variant. Get yours at our Kilobyte-2000 page here, and select the version you want from the drop down menu.
Is the King of Tone worth the wait? Well, since our friend waited nearly five years to get his, you can probably wait five minutes to hear it! A very special episode of “O.P.P.” featuring work from Non-Human Audio, Daredevil Pedals, Champion Leccy, the Analog Man King of Tone…and of course, our “re-animated” Olympia Fuzz.