Innovation not Emulation
Original design vacuum tube amplifiers
Analog dirt and boost pedals
Proxima A
- Original Design
- 6SL7 Octal Preamp Tubes
- Uniquely versatile tone controls
- High headroom clean to chainsaw distortion
Dusky amplifiers inspire creation, not emulation, because what's under the hood isn't a copy of the same old designs you've already played. We build unique and wildly versatile gear for the player who has been there, done that, and is still searching for a sound of their own.
Amplifiers are presold in batches. The preorders tell us how many to make. We do a batch of a particular model and then we move on to the next model. Each batch is unique.
Preorders for this batch of Proxima A close October 7th.
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Augustus
- The Best Seller
It's weird, but certain truths can contradict each other and still be true. For example, when it comes to music and music gear, there is no best anything, because art is subjective. But also, this is the best octave fuzz pedal.
Hypatia
- The Heavy Hitter
This pedal, The Hypatia, made by Dusky Electronics, is SO. GREAT. SO CRAZY GREAT.
It's a fuzz/overdrive/distortion pedal with four knobs, and you can move those knobs around until your bones are sand and water is a folk tale and you still might not be done finding out about How Your Guitar Can Sound. A subtle overdriven bump in level as you mess with the pickup volume; crushed velour fuzz with a variable amount of ground glass mixed in; an enveloping almost-blown-all-the-way-out-but-somehow-each-string-is-now-more-clear distortion that can set a forest on fire. These are some cool things that happened while I played with it.
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About
I'm Chris Rossi
I started Dusky Electronics in 2014 in that garage. Dusky has since moved into a cozy workshop in the basement of a different house. My shop companions are a couple of cats, and a very old, noisy dog. There will also sometimes be someone helping me out with assembly, but Dusky is, for the most part, very much a one person operation. I've played every amp, cabinet, and pedal before it leaves the shop.
My primary interest as a designer is in trying different things and exploring new sounds. I am aware of and respect the past, but I'm not interested in showing anyone my take on black panel Fender amps or an updated Tubescreamer. It's not really interesting to me, intellectually or artistically, and it's already very well trod ground. Those old designs are classic and they are classic for a reason—they're good. But I want to make the next classic.
A concept that drives all of my design work is what I've come to call "bonding". When I'm playing a piece of gear and it starts to feel like an extension of myself, when I stop thinking about the gear and just start playing music, that's when I know I've hit on something that can work. My goal ultimately is to produce designs that above all else are musical and that inspire me to play. Every design that I've released has met that goal for me. You'll never see the ones that don't.
As human beings, we spend the majority of our lives in built environments surrounded by objects that have been designed and produced by other humans. Some of those objects have been beautifully designed with care and attention to both form and function—many others have not. I'm keenly aware of the impact that our immediate physical surroundings can have on our psyches and strive to bring into being objects that improve the environments they're placed in. How the gear sounds and how it makes you feel while playing it will always be the most important things, but I also try to produce gear that is visually appealing as well. If you're going to invite this object into your home, or your studio, or onto your stage, it should look good there.
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Contact
You can also email me, Chris, at cr@duskyamp.com.
