Laney has expanded its acclaimed Ironheart and Lionheart ranges with the unveiling of two flagship Black Country Custom Loudpedals. As the name would suggest, the Loudpedals package the British amp specialist’s Ironheart and Lionheart tones into pedalboard-friendly stompboxes, and have been described not just as “impeccable tube tone emulators”, but an “entire rig solution packed into one portable pedal”. In other words, these could be an ideal solution for those looking to condense a rig’s worth of tube tones into something conveniently sized.
The pedals, which were designed in collaboration with fusion virtuosos Tom Quayle and Martin Miller, arrive in two formats, but they both share some standard features. They include 60 watts of power, two separate channels with three different voicing options each, and footswitchable boost and reverb effects based on Laney’s Steel Park circuit and Secret Path algorithm, respectively. Each pedal also has a channel selector footswitch, a Boost parameter, and a universal three-band EQ.
For the Lionheart, two Bright, Dark and Flat voice toggles can be found. For the Ironheart, one is replaced with a Symmetrical, Clean and Asymmetrical switch for other tonal options. Perhaps the most notable appointment, though, is the Laney Advanced (LAIR) technology.
In both cases, LAIR can be used alongside a dedicated Loudpedal app to browse, fine-tune and upload IRs for state-of-the-art cab emulation. Notably, the LAIR tech has only previo.