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Introducing | Mythos Pedals

Seven stomps from the Nashville-based brand!

The onslaught of new effects continues at the Chicago Music Exchange! We’re excited to welcome Mythos Pedals and their seven core stompboxes to our power-packed effects counter!

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Mythos Pedals is the brainchild of Zach Broyles, an effects-obsessed designer who aims to offer boutique stompboxes with classic tone at an accessible price point.

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More from Mythos

Oracle Analog Echo

Inspired by Japanese echo design, the Oracle Analog Echo uses two MN3205 reissue chips to create dark, mixable echo with tons of control.

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Mjolnir Overdrive

The Mjolnir Overdrive brings you all the power of Thor’s hammer, with a sweet and transparent tone that might remind you of another golden great.

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Golden Fleece Fuzz

Based on Alan Yee’s “Fuzzy Nuts,” the Golden Fleece Fuzz toes the line between overdrive and fuzz, offering plenty of gain and volume with minimal noise.

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Chupacabra Overdrive/Fuzz

Mythos channels early ZZ Top with the Chupacabra Overdrive/Fuzz, a CD4049UBE chip-based unit with a big boost.

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Argonaut Octave

The Argonaut Octave is a streamlined, octave-up pedal handmade with NOS germanium diodes for classic tone that plays well with the rest of your rig.

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Herculean V2 Overdrive

Improved since its introduction ten years ago, the new Herculean V2 Overdrive can lift dark guitars right out of the mix with a fat and clean boost, crunchy overdrive tones, beautiful tube-style breakup, and everything in between.

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Argo Octave Fuzz

Finally, the Argo Octave Fuzz takes after the C.O.B. (or Clean Octave Blend), putting a mixable clean boost and fuzz octave together with a simple top-mounted control set.

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More from Mythos

Oracle Analog Echo

Inspired by Japanese echo design, the Oracle Analog Echo uses two MN3205 reissue chips to create dark, mixable echo with tons of control.

SHOP ORACLE ANALOG ECHO

Mjolnir Overdrive

The Mjolnir is a tweaked version of one of the most sought after overdrives of all time. The latest version of the Mjolnir has a slight reduction in treble and mids so that it’s even more “transparent” with the gain set low

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Argo Octave Fuzz

Based on the much sought after C.O.B. pedal, the Argo allows you to have a boosted clean tone and a fuzz octave sound with a blend control to dial in the perfect level of filth.

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Golden Fleece Fuzz

The Golden Fleece is an incredibly simple circuit that skirts the line between overdrive and fuzz. This circuit began its life as a clone of an Alan Yee “Fuzzy Nuts” which was supposedly used by Wilco's Nels Cline.

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Chupacabra Overdrive/Fuzz

Built around the classic CD4049UBE chip this simple gain pedal does everything from pushed tweed breakup to balls to the wall amp on edge of death sounds. The Chupacabra was designed to replicate the tones of the first ZZ-Top records.

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Argonaut Octave

The Argonaut is a no frills pedal offers a clean-ish octave up sound. Using it alone offers you a gnarly, ring mod-esque sound that is pretty funky. The fun begins when you combine it with your favorite overdrive or fuzz pedals.

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Herculean V2 Overdrive

For this 4 knob overdrive went back to the drawing board, removing what we deemed unnecessary from the original and tweaked the functions we loved. Herculean V2 covers a lot of ground sonically, from a fat booster to pushed OD

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For an effect with the finest components and a personal feel, browse new Mythos Pedals—and if you ever have a problem, just hit up Zach. He’ll fix it for you himself.

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