JAM Pedals and King Gizzard's Stu Mackenzie Release the Tiny Amp Destroyer

Greek boutique pedal maker JAM Pedals has released the Tiny Amp Destroyer, a three-footswitch overdrive built with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard guitarist Stu Mackenzie. The idea traces back to a cheap secondhand practice amp Mackenzie kept pushing past its limits in the studio, chasing the thin, breaking-up tone that ended up on several of the band's recent albums. JAM's team took that unstable, blown-out character and rebuilt it as a standalone circuit.

The pedal stacks two independent gain stages � labeled G1 and G2 � with a separate treble booster, so players can move from a tight low-gain crunch to dense, boxy saturation just by combining footswitches. Active bass and treble controls, a MAGIC voicing mode and a notch control round out the tone-shaping options. Artwork comes from Jason Galea, King Gizzard's regular visual collaborator, giving the pedal the same look as the band's album covers.

Both the signed launch run and the pedal's first production batch have already sold out; a second batch is open for preorder now at 369 euros, shipping from the EU in late August or early September.