David Barber founded Barber Electronics as a way of turning his hobby into a career. He had built, modified, and restored amps and other musical instruments for years, and he had always been chasing that expressive tone. To find it, he began created a line of different effects and amps for bass and guitar players. The pedals created by Barber Electronics feature only the best components, and Barber technicians use specific construction methods that only Barber Electronics use. These innovative techniques that
Barber has pioneered have made them a leader in the industry.
Barber Electronics has created its own unique circuit designs, and they don’t copy any older designs. This gives them a unique tone, texture, note definition, and more. You won’t hear anything similar to a Barber Electronics pedal anywhere. Their hand-made products are very flexible and can produce a variety of different tones, textures, and functions.
The Barber line of pedals includes products like the Burn Unit, the Dirty Bomb, and the Small Fry. Each of their pedals provides different functions and sounds, and you’ll simply have to check them all out to find the one that’s exactly right for you. But don’t worry—just because they have a large catalog of products doesn’t mean you can’t find one that’s perfect for you.
Parallel compression, a Barber innovation that blows away having to deal with attack, ratio and release knobs of other so-called ''studio compressors''. Barber developed a one-of-a-kind and quite proprietary continuous ''blend control'' circuit and combined it with a discrete ''Class A'' FET mixer circuit to allow you to continuously blend the natural signal of your carefully selected guitar with a ''phase-corrected'' classic compression circuit. The result? What guitar players have always wanted - unaltered attack and supernatural sustain and resonance, no studio engineering degree required. NEW FEATURES: Elna silk particulate audio caps, Panasonic and Wima film caps. Enhanced circuit with 2-3db increased available output to help match higher output pickups.
The Barber Launch Pad Boost Effect Pedal is the ultimate high headroom clean boost pedal and it can also be used as a buffer, DI and switcher. Two outputs that represent both + and - phase. This feature allows phase correcting Blackface and Silverface Fender amps, also you will be able to combine the channels for ultra flexibility and combined harmonics of parallel preamps. Main output can be used as a standard unbalanced out or balanced out for interfacing to software guitar programs and recording equipment (balanced or unbalanced DI).
True to life overdrive with greatly reduced compression artifacts, this unit has it all... clarity, great guitar volume knob control, solid punchy articulate bass, gain range from a little juice to fat harmonic overdrive. Give your guitar playing a vintage voice with this stellar performer. The Direct Drive brings new clarity to the Barber Line while delivering startlingly accurate tube style overdrive, bass notes have separation like never before, chords ring with clarity, and sweet vintage voices sing from your guitar...this is the tone to die for.
Three classic EQ sounds direct from their vintage amp circuits...add Blackface, High wattage Tweed and British "stack" EQ to your current amplifier rig!
This EQ is magic with simple amplifiers that have only a volume or Volume and a single tone control. The Barb E.Q is a high headroom classic EQ that adds no overdrive to your signal yet imparts the famous "sound prints" of classic amplifiers.
The Barber Barb E.Q. uses a high voltage internal supply, makes 9 volts into 24 volts for superior headroom.
True bypass
The Barber Tone Press Compressor is a unique little guy in the world of guitar compressors. Using their proprietary Parallel Compression circuit, Barber adds a continuous Blend control coupled with a Class A FET mixer to blend the dry signal with a "phase corrected" compressed signal. This leaves your attack snappy and lets the compression give you sustain for days! Any other compressor pedal do that? All of this with just the turn of one knob instead of micro-tweaking your Attack, Ratio, and Release every time you set up in a new room.
The Small Fry delivers some of the most sought after tones ever! By using unique circuitry and implementing a dynamics control which is continuously variable, the great tones of the past, present and future are available to the discriminating guitarist. Users can dial in explosive pick attack with total note definition which resolves chords as harmonically rich as 13ths and maj7's with absolute clarity! The Small Fry can also create a fat semi-clean boost which will warm up even the coldest of amplifiers while providing a walloping punch in level!
The Barber Burn Unit EQ Effect Pedal delivers some of the most sought after tones ever! Customize your sound with this original equalizer pedal that triples as a boost effect pedal AND overdrive effect pedal. By using unique circuitry and implementing a dynamics control which is continuously variable, the great tones of the past, present and future are available to the discriminating guitarist. Users can dial in explosive pick attack with total note definition which resolves chords as harmonically rich as 13ths and maj7's with absolute clarity! The Burn Unit can also create a fat semi-clean boost which will warm up even the coldest of amplifiers while providing a walloping punch in level !!
Precision matched components-using proprietary specifications to ensure symmetrical clipping and reduced intermodulation distortion. This allows complex chords to be heard with total definition and clarity at any level of overdrive.
The Burn Unit EQ blurs the lines between overdrive and distortion, offering plenty of honey sweet sustain and copious harmonics while staying extremely defined. The Burn Unit is for the player looking for plenty of character from a pedal, The new EQ model is our largest update to this now legendary design. The EQ model has powerful internal controls for presence, "deep clear" bass and midrange. Players can now dial in the Burn Unit to perfectly match their amp and guitar to perfection!
This one is for classic fuzz freaks and newcomers alike. The Barber Trifecta employs a three way toggle switch to seamlessly navigate three classic vintage fuzz circuits producing a plethora of tones from trippy to squishy, through heavy and beyond. The newly minted Barber exclusive "Sludge" control allows players to easily dial in the Trifecta to work perfectly with all types of pickups (humbuckers, single coils even active!). The Sludge control is a pre-fuzz bass control circuit to allow you to adjust exactly how much bass gets pushed through the fuzz circuit. The Trifecta's variable tone control is also a push/pull type switch which lets you go from classic scooped to "boutique" strong fundamental flat style EQ.
The Trifecta's classic three fuzz circuits are based off of the triangle style pi sound, the Jumbo Bender style and the Suppa Bender style with our boutique mods/magic and superior build quality. These three classic circuits all were very close except for clipping sections (fuzzy stuff) being omitted or added, so we figured, why not make it a Trippy Fuzz party and give the players all three for the price of one!
Finally your vintage Fuzz sounds have TOO MUCH CONTROL! (in a good way)
The Barber Electronics unLimiTeD overdrive is a higher gain version of the LTD SR. Barber Electronics have added a midrange control to the unLimiTeD which allows the user to sweep through the sounds of different LTD versions and slightly beyond. The unLimiTeD overdrive is has two switchable channels that allowing for different gain and volume presets.
Barber Electronics unLimiTeD Overdrive Features:
True bypass
Dual, footswitchable channels
Separate level and gain controls
Mids control
Bass Players rejoice! The Linden E.Q. brings those golden tones of yesteryear to your modern bass rig, the Linden E.Q. captures the sweetest and most recorded bass E.Q. circuit in a simple foot operated box. The Barber Linden is a ultra high headroom device that employs a sophisticated power scheme to draw 25 working DC volts from a standard 9 volt supply or battery, resulting in far superior headroom over a standard 9 volt powered pedal. The E.Q. circuit is derived from the great flip top amps that were manufactured in Linden New Jersey, our new pedal pays homage to these great portable bass amps and their excellent eq.
The Linden's eq is a perfect balance tight and powerful low band with a selectable high band that is somehow "charmingly aggressive" without any abrasive shards that could offend...Improve your bass rig today with a Barber Linden E.Q.