Use the Howler to:

• Add warmth to modeling amps and pedals
  
• Add warmth to recordings
  
• Increase your amp's ability to cleanly sustain
  
• Push your amp into singing sustain
  
• Add high end boost for leads
  
• Transform your clean amp signal to crunchy rhythm
  
• Add a new palette of colors without radically changing your amp's tone
  

The Howler gives you:

• The Peal Knob
  Identical to Maven Peal's Sag knob, the Peal knob literally allows you wake up your strings... or not. With the Peal knob turned up, your strings wake up and blossom. At first, there's an initial delay and compression accompanied by softening of tone. As you hold the note, the compression goes away and the note blooms like a cranked tube ampifier.

  With the Peal knob turned down, your strings become immediate, tight, bright and punchy.

  The Peal Knob is very interactive with the Gain Knob. You can add the saggy, compressed feeling to your tone without overdriving the pedal. At low settings of Gain, you will need to set the Peal knob at higher settings to get the pedal to start sagging. The higher the Gain setting, the lower you will need to set the Peal knob for an equivalent amount of sag.

• The Gain Knob
  At lower settings, the Gain knob will simply adjust the level of the signal going through the Howler. The Howler has an very large amount of clean head room and you will need to turn the Gain knob up pretty high (2:00 or more) to get some overdrive going. The Howler uses unique overdrive circuitry developed by Maven Peal and produces a smoother and more complex tone than traditional stomp boxes.

• The Tone Knob
  The Tone knob lets your guitar scream from high end boosts to bluesy darkness, and everything in between. At 12:00 on the Tone Knob, the tone shaping circuitry is essentially bypassed, letting all of the guitar signal through (including the bass).

• The Volume Knob
  The volume knob allows you to adjust the overall signal level going out of your Howler and into the rest of your gear.

• Top Input and Output Jacks
  Placed on the top of the pedal box to give you more room on your pedal board, the Input and Output Jacks are both buffered. The buffered Input does not load down your guitar or other gear. The buffered Output allows you to drive long cables or hard to drive effects (like a traditional Wah) with ease.

The Peal knob behaves differently with different guitar volumes and Gain knob settings. At the lowest setting, the Howler is as tight as your amp and doesn't add sag to your signal. As you increase the Peal knob setting, the Howler adds initial compression followed by a bloom (where compression tapers off) opening up the Howler's tone -- responding much like a cranked tube amp. At higher Peal knob settings (and especially with added high Gain settings), the Howler compresses the signal and stays compressed without a bloom. For an equivalent bloom response, lower the Gain as you increase the Peal.

You do not need to push the Howler into overdrive to add sag to your signal. And even when you use the Howler as a clean buffer, you can add sag to your tone.

Other Cool Features

• True bypass switching
• Groovy blue LED at the tip of the moon
• 18Volt Power supply for increased clean headroom -- no batteries to clutter landfills, or go dead on you (and with the Peal knob, you don't need "old batteries" to make the Howler sound great)
• Changable, socket-mounted Op Amps for different flavor tones
• Chassis mounted pots and jacks, hand-wired to the circuit board
• Audiophile quality parts, same parts used in Maven Peal amplifiers, including military spec circuit board, Orange Drop and Nichicon Capacitors and High Wattage Metal Film Resistors
• Metal Switchcraft jacks
• Standard power jack
• Classic stomp box Op Amps
• Powder coated, RF shielded die-cast aluminum chassis