The Jacques Mercer Box 2 (MB2) features a very wide distortion tonal range, from CLEAN to the HIGHEST GAIN, with great CLEAN-UP. The Jacques MB2 is endorsed by Steve Morse. It will change your perception of guitar tone forever.

Using discrete components for tone and high-tech components for non-tone, Jacques merged his best handmade designs into a coherent electronic device. The tone is based on Jacques' best handmade Mercer Box which emulates the heavenly union between perfect fuzz pedals and raging Plexi 100watters. The resulting complex interaction is now available in a modern compact stompbox.

CONTROLS

No two Mercer Boxes behave exactly the same way because each has its own unique potentiometer, but here are the basics ideas behind the controls:

• HATE introduces an immense low rage.
• Lack of LOVE takes off the harmonics and gain.
• BLOOD brings intense life.
• FUZZ brings in distortion with no limits.

But none of these parameters act alone : they all interact with each other.

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When set at full distortion, the Mercer Box is fireworks splendor breaking the night. At ease with single coil pick-ups or humbuckers, the Mercer lets loose a world of excess, bringing your amp to new frontiers beyond any description .

And the extraordinary feature of the Mercer, is that you can decrease this huge distortion tone gradually down to clean, simply using your guitar's volume knob .

In the past stompbox history, numerous attempts to morph distortion in real time have failed, but here and now you get a fully effective remote distortion controller for free.

Little finger maestro guitarists, such as Steve is, will find that this is another reason to own a Mercer Box 2.

THE MERCER CLEAN TONE

The Mercer Box is one of the few high-gain distortion pedals to offer a clean tone. Directly inherited from the handmade Mercer, it is a stronger, warmer, yet clear tone, when compared to by-passed tone.

Very reminiscent of the best tube amps and so addictive, you could let the Mercer on all the time.

Or buy a second Mercer Box for distortion.

WHY ' MERCER BOX '?

The Mercer Box name comes from the K.DICK (1928-1982) book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” (1968), which is better known as the inspiration for the Ridley Scott movie adaptation, “Blade Runner,” starring Harrison Ford and Sean Young.

In the book, followers of a quasi-religious leader, named Wilbur Mercer, use the "Wilbur Mercer Empathy Box" to live again and again the cult-founding religious experiences of Wilbur Mercer himself . Followers who seize the two handles of the Mercer Box are instantly transported through time and space, into the body and soul of Wilbur Mercer.