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Electro-Harmonix Hot Wax Dual Overdrive
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Your Price: $173.10 CDN
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Awesome on guitar and bass, the Hot Wax fuses the Hot Tubes and Crayon pedals into one powerful dual-overdrive. Use each individually or stack them with the Crayon driving the Hot Tubes. Master EQ and Blend controls provide the tonal flexibility power players demand. The Hot Wax is the next evolution in inspired overdrives!
The Hot Wax comes equipped with an EHX 9.6 DC 200mA power supply.
Features
• Combines the Crayon full range overdrive and the Hot Tubes, a reissue of the classic 1970s CMOS overdrive.
• Use the Crayon or Hot Tubes alone or stack them with the Crayon driving the Hot Tubes
• Sounds great on guitar and bass
• Blend control lets you blend in your dry signal which is especially useful on bass guitar
• Master EQ section features Bass and Treble for increased tonal control and flexibility
• Quiet pop-free foot switching
• Comes with a standard EHX 9.6DC200mA PSU
The Hot Wax comes equipped with an EHX 9.6 DC 200mA power supply.
Features
• Combines the Crayon full range overdrive and the Hot Tubes, a reissue of the classic 1970s CMOS overdrive.
• Use the Crayon or Hot Tubes alone or stack them with the Crayon driving the Hot Tubes
• Sounds great on guitar and bass
• Blend control lets you blend in your dry signal which is especially useful on bass guitar
• Master EQ section features Bass and Treble for increased tonal control and flexibility
• Quiet pop-free foot switching
• Comes with a standard EHX 9.6DC200mA PSU
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70s hard rock machine 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Winnipeg (Pembina), Manitoba
Love this for Sabbath style tones on the hot tubes side. The overdrive tone from hot tubes is kind of unique and you could adapt it to be a signature sound. Crank the volume on the crayon with the gain on that side down to make the hot tubes scream and Distort even more! the crayon is pretty versatile in and of itself for tone shaping near the front of the line in your pedal chain. Most importantly this pedal is just plain fun to use.
Posted by Sam on Nov 4, 2023
Hot wax great deal 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Surrey, British Columbia
The crayon is $100.Hot tubes is $100.Hot wax is both pedals for $150. Two great drives at a discount.
Posted by Ron on Nov 2, 2023
Why Not Both? 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Brampton, Ontario
I was in a situation where I had the Hot Tubes and another overdrive but would never have them both on my pedalboard. I wasn't totally satisfied with my other overdrive and I didn't want to keep switching out overdrive pedals, so while browsing pedals I found this. It was exactly what I was looking for. The Hot Tubes plus an overdrive in one pedal. Saves space on the board and only takes up one spot in the power supply. I have it pretty much set up as an "always on" pedal, just to drive the front end of the lead channel, but you could definitely use the pedal on it's own to create some gnarly overdrive tones. I haven't messed with the blend knob very much but it is a welcome addition, though a separate EQ section for each side could have taken it to a new level since the Hot Tubes is so bright. Overall, I like the pedal and it will probably be on my pedalboard for years to come.
Posted by Michael on Jul 1, 2021
Great Dual Overdrive 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Moncton, New Brunswick
This is a great product and the two drives stack very well. The Hot Tubes side set with the drive fairly low and the level set to boost the input of a tube amp results in a very full, saturated, but tight distortion sound. With an amp set just at the point of break up, and the level set a bit lower and the gain up just a bit, the Hot Tubes side makes an amazing transparent/blues style overdrive that adds hair and bite to your amp tone without altering it too much. Then kick the Crayon side on with a bit more drive and level to get a great saturated lead tone.
The Blend control on this is a unique feature in a guitar overdrive pedal and makes the pedal probably the best Bass overdrive I have ever used, as well.
If I had one criticism, it would be that the the shared treble control could be tweaked a bit. When the Hot Tubes and Crayon are used independently with the same treble setting, I find the Hot Tubes a bit to bright when I have the Crayon dialed in where I want it. The Bass control seems to work well for both, though. Separate treble controls for each drive would make this pedal absolutely perfect for almost any situation.
I've tried a lot of distortions and overdrives, as well as a few dual overdrives, and this is my favorite to date, hands down.
Posted by anonymous on May 10, 2021
My favourite pedal 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Calgary Chinook, Alberta
I have tried many overdrives and this one is currently my favourite. I love the hot tubes side to push my tube amp to breakup, the crayon side is creat for classic rock tones and when you put them both together you get magic. It works well with humbuckers and single coils.
Posted by Justin on Aug 9, 2019
Perfect Tone Machine 0 of 0 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Owen Sound, Ontario
If your overdrive doesn't give you quite enough dirt, but your distortion gives you too much, this is the perfect pedal. Being able to combine two ODs into one machine is awesome, and the tonal varieties you get from it are killer!
Posted by Jonathan on May 2, 2019
Hot Wax = Hot Tones 1 of 1 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Vancouver, British Columbia
Solid dual-drive for the price. I've previously tried both the Hot Tubes and Crayon pedals, so this is the perfect pairing. I've got the Hot Tubes side set as a clean-with-a-bit-of-hair boost, while the Crayon side is the main drive tone. Pretty cool and it never leaves my board.
Posted by Kevy Metal on Nov 13, 2018
Pedal cuts out! 2 of 7 customers found this review helpful
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Closest Store Regina, Saskatchewan
When this pedal is played with a humbucker guitar and both sides are engaged, the pedal will loose all of it's volume and tone. EHX is aware of the issue and doesn't seem to care. The pedal sounds great, but it needs two be sent away for three plus weeks to New York, to be repaired, just so it can work properly.
Posted by Daniel Espelien on Sep 14, 2018
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