Flattley revisits its first pedal with the 10th-anniversary Reaper
The British builder’s new Reaper uses hard and soft clipping plus a high-output boost mode around an op-amp distortion core.
Sep 25, 2026
Credit: Flattley Pedals (via source)
British boutique maker Flattley Pedals has returned to the pedal that started its production line ten years ago. The Reaper Dual Mode Distortion Anniversary Edition is not a straight reissue: it rebuilds the concept around an op-amp core with three selectable behaviors.
Hard clipping uses vintage glass-envelope germanium diodes, soft clipping uses an asymmetric LED/silicon arrangement, and a boost setting removes both clipping networks so the circuit can hit an amplifier's preamp much harder. Volume, gain and tone controls keep the interface straightforward, while Flattley's usual hand-finished enclosure treatment includes purple halo lighting and an etched aluminium foot topper.
It is a small release, but a useful example of a boutique maker using an anniversary to rethink rather than merely reproduce its earliest circuit.
Credit: Philip Czarnecki
Independent demo of the Reaper's clipping and boost modes, embedded in Premier Guitar's own coverage.
Why it matters
The Reaper is a genuinely small-builder story with a clear technical hook: three clipping/boost behaviors and a redesigned circuit tied directly to Flattley's first production pedal.
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