Say hello to the Okines. This is a two-sided pedal, offering the Thylacine MK1.5 first and the Red Ochre Deluxe treblebooster second.
The fuzz is harmonically very active. It is a thick, full, and aggressive fuzz, but it is also very dynamic with some great sounds being produced by the amount of pick attack alone. It cleans up very nicely when rolling the attack control back a bit and then rolling back the guitar volume, however, when it's wound up, it's loaded with rich harmonics and has that violin quality to it. This fuzz is massive.
The Red Ochre is our classic Treblebooster with a filter to allow dialing in more mids and lower mids or keeping the pedal brighter ligh the originals. This is such a great boost and will drive the front end of a valve amp beautifully.
Combined, these two create chaos and glory, all rolled into one. With everything dimed, it explodes with massive tones that are equally violent, squishy, and ready to wail with sustain. Roll both volumes back a little and ride the guitar volume, and you can find yourself lost in an old dimed VOX top boost. There is a world of tone to explore here.
We have a range of transistors available for the Okines, including Philips, Mullard, Valvo, NKT, Brimar and GEC/Mullard to name a few so there is plenty of choice to be had there for sure. These can include OC43s, OC45s, OC72s and OC84s for the fuzz and AC127s, AC187s and ASY89s for the boost.
Transistors will be provided depending on availability. Which ever transistors you wind up with though, we are sure you will love them. If you have a particular request like mix n match, for example, or would like to talk about some other options, then please drop me a line to discuss prior to purchasing.
On top of these great transistor sets, you'll also get
Philips Electrolytic caps
WIMA, Mullard Tropical Fish, Mullard Mustard, Iskra, coupling caps
Allen Bradley, Piher, Philips and Jackson resistors
Note: These components may change due to availability.
Mechanical components include
Alpha pots
Dailywell Footswitch
Cliff jacks
Blue LED (Thylacine) Red LED (Red Ochre)
Lumburg 2.1mm DC power socket
Internal battery snap.
Each Van Diemens pedal is hand built, point to point, one at a time using carefully selected vintage components. When turning our pedals, we set standard transistor voltages at the beginning, but then finalize the setup tuning by ear, looking for the perfect sweet spot and finalising the bias once that point has been reached. We use classic pull back cloth wire, and each board is hand crafted using either turrets, eyelets, or through hole construction.
IMPORTANT: All pedals use PNP Germanium transistors and, as a result, are positive ground.
Check out Brett Kingmans Thylacine Demo with a set of OC72 Transistors on the Thylacine.
https://youtu.be/NH0iZt7ADTU
And his excellent demo on the Red Ochre
https://youtu.be/O3JwoUU4Tq4?si=GBIdf77JPGZZp9jw
The pedal is finished in either Black, White crackle or Red Vein powdercoat, has black metal cupcake knobs and a black badge. It comes with a calico bag, booklet, and rubber feet.
If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thanks for looking.
Richard Turner
THE OKINES
The Okines Dual Pedal is currently unavailble. If you wish to discuss purchasing one, please email me at
richard@vandiemenseffect.com.au