Red Witch Leviatha pairs distortion with an intermodulation octave
Red Witch's limited Leviatha pairs a big distortion with a dialable upper octave the maker designed for intermodulation tones, chords included.
The octave is almost a side effect on Red Witch's Leviatha. The New Zealand maker built a dialable upper-octave generator into a big distortion, but says it designed that circuit mainly for the intermodulation frequencies it creates: the descending note you hear when you bend one string against another through a fuzz. It also set it up to behave on chords as well as single notes.
Red Witch says the effect reaches into ring-modulator territory. The X control sets how much of it you hear, from a hint of extra grit to what the maker calls "truly cataclysmic tonalities", and Red Witch pitches the Leviatha as a usable drive pedal before anything else.
Alongside X sit Gain, Tone and Master Volume knobs, plus an internal slide switch that Red Witch says unlocks "even more sub glory". The back plate labels the input, output and 9 V DC jacks.
This is one of Red Witch's Nouveau series limited editions, and the maker says only 59 will ever be produced. Each is hand-made and signed by founder Ben Fulton, with through-hole components, premium sockets, hand wiring and a long-life true bypass footswitch. At the time of writing, Red Witch's own store lists the Leviatha as sold out.
Red Witch has posted its own demo of the pedal.
Video: Red Witch Pedals, "Red Witch Leviatha Harmonic Intermodulator + Octavia + Distortion"
Red Witch's notes are on the Leviatha page at Red Witch, and controls and specs are collected on our Leviatha page.
