The Battle of Verdun was the second longest battle of WW1 lasting a whopping 302 days with nearly 715,000 casualties. It stands as a symbol today for the destructiveness and costliness that war brings.
When we talked to visual artist Justin Hock about doing a limited run of 10 Custom Cannonballs, he had the perfect map to begin his mixed media process and that could span 9 pedals; connecting the set visually and cohesively. Right side up, they form a cohesive map of The Battle of Verdun. Flipped over, the back plates of these pedals tell a story; with all text placed in proper order of their preexisting pages. The one outlier in the 10 (this one) features text on the top and a map on the back plate.
The Cannonball itself is an iconic circuit and one that is very special to us here at Relic. Caroline hasn't made many of these in the last several years and the run of 10 here were produced with the best of the best of the best of components creating a creamy, heavy, clear, tight, glassy tone that can go from overdrive to absolute distortion. The sound is even and smooth; no notes in the chord over-power any other. It is one of the best dirt circuits ever made and these are some of the best-looking ever produced.
It has controls for:
-Volume
-Filter
-Gain
-Shape
-Voltage (this is the magical red knob below the rest).
It has one latched and one momentary switch.
-Latched is on/off
-Momentary is Havoc or Kill
The mini toggle switches between Havoc and Kill.
These pedals were hand built in every way possible and are visual and sonic works of art that we hope the lucky handful of you that end up grabbing them will cherish as much as we cherished bringing this vision to fruition.
