The FIVE is a limited edition overdrive for August 2025!
For audio samples on the DEMO page click here!
Custom made to order!
Right now we are shipping most orders in around 3 weeks
Stock: 15 of 15 left!
Pushed Low Watt Amp Sweetness
The FIVE is our take on the sound and feel of vintage low watt amps being pushed into sweet saturation. We consider the FIVE to be a low to medium gain overdrive, and easily the lowest gain pedal of the CORE Limited Series this year. Nate cooked this one up, looking to get that old small tube amp sound, one that's not a champ, but more like a old gibson, danelectro or something from a sears catalog in the middle of the 1900's. Thes amps were used alot in 90's studio sessions, think something like those old Hootie and the Blowfish chimey rythmn tones that fit perfect in the mix. It also does bluesy neck tones well too and stacks like a champ, no pun intended!
UNDER THE HOOD
The FIVE achieves glorious soft clipping by employing some rare soviet era germanium diodes in a creative clipping array that really captures what we love about FIVE watt, pentode tube amps just purring with smooth harmonics. To us, it's just the right amount of hair and really sounds like a recorded low wattage amp mixed just right to fit in the mix. Not as greasy as a champ style sound but at higher gains perhaps a bit of fizz and character. I haven't even analyzed the circuit yet, Nate brought it over and I fell in love so I gave it my favorite purple knobs!
LAST OF ITS KIND (For now)
We are dipping into some of the extra White boxes we have from the Black& White series so when these are gone, they are all gone. The CORE series was intially designed in 2020 and now we face almost 10 parts being discontinued and we've done run out of limited colors from our supplier so it's a natural time to do a re-design. In the coming months some other pedal will live in the CORE LTD place but until we finish that design process these will be it! And one thing is for sure, we wont make this limited color and exact circuit ever again so now is the final call for all of these final CORE Limited pedals!
Take a listen to the audio samples here!
CORE Series Simplicity
The CORE Series features a streamlined control set for quickly dialing in killer tones with four knobs to adjust Level, Gain, Lows and Highs in a custom painted sleek Gorva pedal enclosure.
CORE Series Dual Rail Power
We designed the CORE Series with a dual rail doubling power supply. This design can scale from +/-7v to +/-18v, effecting the headroom, tone and feel of the pedal, achieving up to four times the headroom over standard 9v pedals. The internal supply achieves this by mirroring whatever input voltage you apply via the external power supply and we always encourage people to experiment. Requires clean power supplty of 7-18v with minimum of 100mA of current.
CORE Series Quiet Bypass
Our entire CORE Series features our quiet bypass switching system. It is a true bypass, relay based system for minimum pop when engaging the effect.
FIVE LTD
- Vast Array of American drive sounds
- Made with carefully curated top shelf analog componants
- Limited Runs, handmade in PNW
- LOWS circuit that sweeps from 30Hz to 1kHz before the GAIN stage, which interacts with the distortion.
- Active 12db/oct sweepable HIGHS control, comes after the gain stage with a wide sweep from 22kHz down to 1 kHz, it can powerfully shape the harmonics content.
- High headroom with internal doubling from 7v-18v power input. Draws under 100mA.
- Quiet bypass relay based true-bypass system for quiet switching.
- Designed for guitars, bass and keys.
- Low noise with premium analog parts.
- Hand made in Oregon, USA.
- New enclosure by GORVA design.
- Rear mounted jacks.