October Audio Pedals

I was contacted by October Audio to help get a pedal in production across the finish line, and was then asked to help with a new pedal, the Transience. The client wanted a design that felt mid-century retro like classic jazz album covers he was fond of, but also clean and modern. He also wanted an image that was evocative of themes such as change, ruin, and growth, so we settled on a stag in an abandoned dystopian shopping mall—a surreal image that reflects the pedal’s spirit of exploration and fleeting pliancy. For the V2 we’ve put the stag in an abandoned 70s computer lab. 

My second pedal design for October Audio is the Octo Deco. A very simpler little number, it doesn’t even have a single knob—just on or off. A dirty upper octave added to your favorite fuzz, drive, or boost, or played on its own for tough, textured chords.
For this one we used the corner of a playing card and a skull in a design inspired by the Penguin book designs of the late 50s and early 60s to suggest chance, danger, and the fate we’re all faced with. 

The Ubiquity is the third pedal we collaborated on. The client wanted a feeling of wonder and infinity, so I came up with a retro image of a child playing with his space helmet and ray gun looking to the sky and dreaming of the possibility of space whales, lost in the vastness of his own imagination.

The Witch Finger is a fun pedal and a fun nod to Halloween nostalgia. The knob on the pedal mimics the sinister fingernail of a witch finger toy kids bought out of mail order ads in in the back of pulp comics of decades past. The pedal came packaged with a guitar pick, a Witch Finger die-cut sticker and had an ad stuck to the box that felt like it was cut straight out of an old copy of Tales From the Crypt.

More pedals to come…