Crazy Tube Circuits Rapture gives the Triptychon drive its own box
Rapture lifts the amp-style drive stage out of the Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon and adds MORE and MOD toggles that change how it reaches breakup.
Until now, the amp-style drive in the Crazy Tube Circuits Triptychon came only as the left-hand panel of a three-part fuzz, boost and drive pedal. Rapture changes that. Crazy Tube Circuits has put the complete drive section in its own gold enclosure and added two toggles that, the maker says, extend its headroom, gain range and clipping response.
The target is a valve amp at its sweet spot. On its product page, the company describes low to mild overdrive with natural compression and a gradual move from clean to breakup, pitched anywhere from a subtle always-on stage to a more assertive push.
What MORE and MOD change
Drive, Tone and Master are the only knobs. With both toggles down, Crazy Tube Circuits says Rapture is the exact Triptychon drive circuit. Flip MOD and clipping is reduced; the maker compares the result to giving a valve amp another set of power valves and a beefier output transformer, for a more open response.
MORE extends the drive range, but its effect depends on where Drive sits and on the MOD position. The manual describes the result as a more pushed version of the same core voice rather than a separate channel, so think of it as a voicing control, not a second mode.
Placement is left open. The maker suggests trying it at the front or end of a chain, before or after other drives, and even after time-based effects.
On the practical side, the manual lists relay true bypass, a power-up setting that chooses whether the pedal starts bypassed or engaged, and operation from 9 to 18 V DC with centre-negative polarity. Full specs are on our Rapture product page, and the maker's own store lists it in stock.
