Customer Testimonials

I’ve just purchased the Cogmeister and wanted to stop by and say WOW! Every channel sounding great on their own or together in any combination.

It’s incredible and paired with a Bad Cat Black Cat, I had a ‘eureka’ moment in the sound I’ve been chasing and had the best gig and sound last Saturday taking it out for the first time. So much so, I’m shifting a bunch of pedals as this wonderful thing will never leave my board!

I received it and its great! Love all 3 channels! The first channel vastly improves my clean sound, the 2nd channel has a super overdrive setting and the solo channel boosts my OD without changing the character of the OD. PERFECT!!!

The Cogmeister is one of the best and most usable boost systems l’ve tried, as it is extremely delicate and dynamic, preserves the tone of the amplifier, guitar and pickups. And works well with other drive, boost and fuzz pedals.

The Cogmeister is awesome!  Funny, I purchased the pedal to hopefully be the heart of a new mini pedalboard that I was toying around with putting together.  Well the pedal is now the heart of my big pedalboard and sent 2 pedals off, haha.  Cheers for building such an easy to dial in and great sounding drive pedal!

I have been struggling with volume boosts for solos as most boost pedals just give me more gain or more compression. Problem solved: I love that I can get more ‘squish’ by using the Push treble booster, but I get so much solo boost from the Solo side. And the tone. I used the Cogmeister exclusively for five and half hours of live gigging this weekend and I have to say it’s a revelation in my Victory RK100(plexi). Best sound ever and I genuinely believe I played the best two solos of my life as a result. Thank you again. So much tone from one pedal.

I fired up this pedal yesterday with my cranked ‘67 Super Reverb and it was glorious.

It really adds harmonic depth to the tone of my Strat and it’s got this amazing 3D squish factor!

I will never need another drive pedal of any sort – this is the grail for me!  Thanks for your ingenuity!

The Cogmeister will go down as one of the best pedals of all time!

I don’t know what kind of voodoo magic is going on in there, but it’s taking fuzz pedals to another level.

Also thrilled at the attention to lower frequencies. I’ve had some drive pedals that sound great… until I plug in my baritone-tuned guitar and the lower EQ turns into a muddy mess. You’ve made it really easy to dial in and adjust to taste!

Looking forward to further experimentation and finding more favorite sounds (I can’t seem to get a bad one). Kudos 😉

I bought a second-hand Eastman Romeo California guitar and stuck some flat wounds on it. That’s what I plugged into the Cogmeister and I got such a fat tone. Great combination, which I’ve been using it through an old Marshall PA20 and it’s very suited to that amp. Accentuates lots of the positives and I particularly like the subtle nuances the merest tweak can make.

Just ran a 20th anniversary PRS into your (Cogmeister) pedal, via a HOF reverb and a (Boss) DD3 straight into my desk, what an awesome combination!

I plugged my Ibanez GB 10 (fully hollow) into a clean Fender Twin. I had the fullest sound ever with musical and controlled feedback on tap using the Cogmeister. This thing is a monster and plays Balkan and Greek riffs like a God from Olympus.

And all this is absolutely true!

Last week as I was breezing through the Thorpy website, I thought, I wonder if there’s any updates to the Cogmeister that I received last September.  Well I came here and looked, but there wasn’t any.  Then I thought, well maybe I’ll write Dan about adding something to the next version of the Cogmeister.
BUT !!!
I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted…. The pedal is perfect.

Thanks Dan, The Cogmeister is great.

Frankie Baby Chicago

Such a great pedal! The “swiss army knife” of overdrive/boosters… so many great tones in one box! Makes my AC-15 scream!!

I’m knocked out with it! All 3 boosters cover everything I need, and then some.

The ‘Push’ treble booster is as close as I’ve heard to my old Rangemaster, instant Rory Gallagher circa 1969/70 (with the right Strat, naturally).

The ‘Drive’ fuzz is a monster that makes the guitars sing in a very musical way, and the mid-scoop toggle can be very useful in de-cluttering over-saturated tones from high-output pickups.

The ‘Solo’ booster simply adds some crunch and extra level to my clean sound – invaluable!

To have so much useful variety in a single unit is a wonderful thing indeed.

Fantastic work Dan, you deserve every success with it.

I’m going to really enjoy using the Cogmeister. It’s inspired me to play more guitar!

Pedal sounds fantastic – great job with the design!

Firstly, I just want to say, wow. The more I play this, the better it gets. A seriously astounding pedal. I pared back a bigger board and have just been playing with it, a flanger, and a Collider. Heaven.

After using the Cogmeister for a month I have rebuilt my entire board around it. I have tried so many combinations of drive pedals and boosts and found some great sounds. This pedal however nails the sounds in my head, is easy to dial in and has it all in one pedal. Brilliant!

The Cogmeister is versatile and I’ve found several sounds that I love! It’s on my pedal board!

This pedal is pure magic! I fired it up yesterday with my cranked ‘67 Super Reverb and it was glorious. It really adds harmonic depth to the tone of my Strat and it’s got this amazing 3D squish factor!  I will never need another drive pedal of any sort – this is the grail for me! Thanks for your ingenuity!

It’s fabulous! The Cogmeister is remarkably versatile and very much a sound unto itself.  It’s not Klon Clone, it’s not a Bluesbreaker, it’s not a Marshall simulator, or a Tube Screamer.  Although it can mimic many of those sounds. I love the mix of sounds I can get from the one pedal and love the various mixes of gain stages I can do. Lots of options and all of them good. It has a real personality and adds a soulfulness to the sound.  That’s as high a praise as I can give it!!

The Cogmeister is outstanding. I am not surprised – but wow, it’s truly a special design. Very excited to use it!!

Super adaptable, killer sounding pedal. Best I’ve ever tried, just pure genius!