Valeton Dapper Guitar FX Strips: All-Analog Tone in Gig-Friendly, High-Value Products
How do you come up with a series of new guitar effects that truly stand out in a sea of stomp boxes? Easy! Simply spend ten years designing successful products for major industry pedalmakers before launching your own brand.
Introducing Valeton guitar effects, brought to you by the most amazing engineering team you’ve never heard of! Top off this design pedigree with a healthy dose of superior sonics, performance-friendly features, robust construction, unique form factors, and eminently affordable prices, and you’ve got the first full-range guitar FX line in years to come along and claim its rightful place on the tone throne.
Valeton’s Dapper series provide gigging musicians with a perfect complement of tone-shaping tools and essential utilities in a convenient all-in-one strip format. No need to bring the whole pedalboard to the gig; Valeton Dappers cover all the bases and more! Models include:
Dapper Mini: This ultra compact performer features Drive/Chorus/(tap tempo) Delay plus a Tuner and a Cabinet Sim-enabled headphone output. This multi-effect dynamo belongs in every working guitarist’s gig bag.
Dapper: The full size Dapper rocks out with both Distortion and Overdrive circuits, along with (tap tempo) Delay, on-board Tuner, and an Effects Loop.
11Dapper Dark: Shredders rejoice! Boost and Hi-Gain functions deliver blistering tones, joined for more sane adventures by the (tap tempo) Delay, Chorus, and Tuner functions. An Effects Loop allows for instant customization, and the Cabinet Sim-enabled output makes the Dapper Dark ideal for both performance and recording.
Dapper Bass: Destined to become everyone’s favorite bass pedal! Sporting an honest-to-goodness Amplifier module (complete with three-band EQ), combination Boost/Compressor, tone shaping in the form of a Chorus, a Dual-Voice Octaver, and a “Dirty Q” Envelope Follower, plus tuner, effects loop, and multiple outputs for interfacing with amps and audio interfaces—there’s even a Thru output for parallel effects or reamping applications.
Check out these videos to see and hear these powerhouse pedals in action:
