B-Custom brings about a few “new things”, first we have the new Barber Custom
shop brand name “B-Custom”, and this signifies products built within the Barber
custom shop by Ronni Santmyer. The B-Custom products are smaller runs or even
“one off” highly customized audio devices built to accommodate players demanding
requests for nuance after nuance, and detail after detail of highly sought after
features, sound and build quality. B-Custom carries on the commitment to deliver
stellar audio at very musician friendly prices, with a large dealer network
throughout the world, and delivery times that have you playing our devices on
stage, in the studio or at home, instead of dreaming endlessly about their
eventual arrival.

The Custom Cool is the first true B-Custom product and has some new B-Custom
features such as:
EQ switching- This allows you to have two totally different
EQ curves, using only one tone control by simply employing a push/pull switch,
we call these “SR EQ” and “Snarl EQ”, the first being quite flat response to
preserve your guitar’s beautiful tone that you so carefully selected, and the
second having a wicked fat midrange of sweet barbed wire with loads of
fundamentals, without the silly “hump” sound.

Smooth/Crunchy- Yep, just like peanut butter you can have smooth or
crunchy sounds with the Custom Cool. This again uses the push/pull method of
switching between the well known Barber style smooth tone or a new
dynamic/raunchy no holds barred rude presentation, all this in a
sophisticatedly tuned, low gain architecture to please the classic tone
connoisseur.

Internal Trims- These are our familiar, easy to use internal controls
that players can use to dial the Custom Cool into their own personal gear, they
include- Note shape, Bass, midrange and presence.

The Custom Cool project started when Monster Mike Welch came to us in
search of an overdrive to help with rental back-line gigs, where he needed a
reliable sounding amp style overdrive pedal, to emulate the sound he
gets from his cranked smaller amps he uses for club dates. After sending pedals
back and forth and lots of discussion, the first proto of the Custom Cool was
born, we have added EQ switching and the smooth/crunchy switching since Mike’s
early prototype, but the sound we brought together for him is well retained with
a few other tweaks added to give ultimate flexibility.

Precision matched components-using proprietary
specifications to ensure symmetrical and specific asymmetric clipping and
reduced intermodulation distortion. This allows complex chords to be heard with
total definition and clarity at any level of overdrive. True bypass switching
with led indicator

Three way toggle- This control allows three distinct
styles of symmetry to allow a perfect mate to your amps character.

Hand made-Built in the B-Custom shop by Ronni
Santmyer

Volume knob response circuitry-numerous shades and
textures at your fingertips just by adjusting your volume knob.

Cast aluminum enclosure-our incredibly durable
enclosure will last decades if not centuries!

Double sided pc board with plate through holes-This
is the way the military does it when they want electronics to work FOREVER! all
pedals should be made this way , few are.

8 knob control for tonal versatility-The Custom Cool
uses eight (including internal trim pots) control knobs as follows, Volume,
Tone, Dynamics and Drive. Internal controls for Note shape, Bass, Midrange and
presence.

Unique control- The note shape allows you to adjust
your sound from tight and focused to a big round vintage tone, The dynamics
control has earned a great reputation over the years for setting the transfer to
smooth singing overdrive or raspy growling deep dynamics, continuously!

Barber adjustable phono style recovery stage- Most
of our op-amp based overdrive pedals use a cool old style phonograph circuit to
recover the frequencies lost in the overdrive stage, this worked great for vinyl
and now works great for guitar overdrive!