The Crown Jewel from Build Your Own Clone is a unique drive and boost combo pedal that combines the best qualities from various circuits to create a new and versatile analog pedal. It offers a wide range of overdrive and distortion tones.

The pedal features a parametric midrange and a 3-band equalizer, allowing you to shape the drive channel’s tone in various ways. It also has a 3-way Mid Q switch for further control.

The Crown Jewel offers 9 different textures of distortion through its hard and soft clipping switches. These include options similar to popular pedals like the Klon Centaur, ProCo RAT, Ibanez Tubescreamer, and more. It also has a soft LED clipping option and the ability to use soft and hard clipping simultaneously.

The pedal has an internal charge pump that provides 18 volts to the drive channel circuit, while still using a standard 9VDC power supply. The 18V/9V switch allows you to choose the voltage supplied to the drive channel, offering more headroom or traditional overdrive characteristics.

The boost channel is independent from the drive channel and can be turned on and off separately. It is modular, allowing you to easily change the boost module by removing the back of the enclosure and swapping modules. The pedal comes with the LPB module, but other boost modules are available.

The boost channel can be placed before or after the drive channel using the first/last switch. Placing it after the drive allows you to make the drive louder and add the tonal characteristics of the boost module. Placing it before the drive allows for stacking the boost with the drive for hotter overdrive tones or using the boost as a pre-gain for high-gain distortions.

The Crown Jewel features soft touch, clickless, pop-free, true-bypass, relay switching for both the drive and boost channels.

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