Summer School Electronics & Supercool Pedals Smoking In The Boys Room Chorus Distortion

Dual pedals just rock, no matter what the combination of effects happens to be. When they’re created together by two different companies, that makes them that much cooler. Today’s pedal sees our friends from Summer School Electronics and Supercool Pedals team up to create a grungy, classic type of sound, with a lot of range and all the nostalgia you can handle: ladies and gents, this is the Smoking In The Boys Room Chorus Distortion.

A tasty collaboration between Summer School Electronics and Supercool Pedals, Smoking in the Boys Room is a cross-border team-up that delivers unmistakably 90’s grunge tones with a refreshed modern bite and artful design. Smoking In The Boys Room artfully fuses a Summer School Electronics DS-1-inspired distortion – complete with classic buzzsaw edge and a modernized mid-range snarl – with Supercool Pedals’ organic and watery Small Clone-style analog chorus. This tribute to the legendary Seattle grunge pioneers Nirvana is unmistakable and loving, summoning classic tones but delivering original spins on sound and circuit to bring this iconic sound into the 21st century.

Smashed into a single thoughtfully designed enclosure (with art that is SATURATED with deep 90’s and Nirvana lore), each effect can be run independently or simultaneously for a classic cacophony of flannelled saturation, with an all-important external order switch to determine the effect chain sequence.

Buzzsaw distortion tones with a revamped mid-rich tone circuit.

Watery chorus with widely adjustable rate and depth.

Internal order swap accessible by an external toggle switch.

Nostalgic and 90’s-rich art and design (with full colour manual, printed fabric bags, and plenty of box candy)

Hand-built across borders by two independent builders: Summer School Electronics (Syracuse, NY) and Supercool Pedals (Peterborough, ON).

True mechanical bypass on both circuits (no more BOSS buffer woes)

9-volt operation with a standard DC input.

If you’ve even been on the prowl for a Kurt-Cobain-in-a-box pedal, the Smoking In The Boys Room is where your search will definitively end. The chorus section has a huge range of modulated awesomeness, and the distortion takes the little orange box that everyone has had at one point in their life and makes it, well, better. Mark and Jamie from Summer School Electronics and Supercool Pedals have been teaming up with me on demos for many years now, and I’m so stoked that they got together and made this wonderful creation. Go check out both of their websites, check out our demo, and look to see if you can find all the Kurt-inspired easter eggs hidden in this pedal’s design…GRUNGE GRUNGE GRUNGE FOREVER!!!