Buying Guides
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome our newest brand onboard, Lichtlaerm Audio. And if you aren't familiar with these guys already, you're in for a treat...
Lichtlaerm Audio is based in Germany, where Daniel Ringl combines meticulous craftsmanship, top quality components and a rapid pace of innovative circuit design into an incredibly impressive range of pedals.
As a touring musician himself, Daniel understands the rigours of the road and knows exactly what a pedal needs in order to be durable enough to be thrown into absolutely any situation. All of Lichtlaerm Audio's pedals are therefore built with this bomb-proof, tour-ready mentality in mind.
Daniel's endless creativity has resulted in an ever-expanding range of guitar pedals which provide sonic solutions and plenty of versatility in the studio and on stage. But not content to stop at guitar pedals, Daniel has collaborated with Fane to create a bespoke speaker for his cabinets, and has developed the critically praised Prometheus amp (more below...). He has even organised a music festival!
Lichtlaerm Audio has attracted the attention of guitar players across the world for good reason, and the company's growing roster of artists includes high profile names such as Mick Thompson (Slipknot), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory), Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles), and Marcus Siepen (Blind Guardian).
We are proud to announce that we are now officially stocking a selection of guitar pedals from Lichtlaerm Audio's core range, which covers everything you need from EQs and noise gates, to overdrives, high-gain distortions and modulated reverbs.
The Timmy first appeared on the market in 2004 as the refined successor to its bigger brother, the Tim – one of the OG boutique guitar pedals. All the initial Timmy models were sold by Paul Cochrane directly through his Myspace page (remember Myspace...?). The Timmy typically uses the JRC4559 chip for the gain, although for the early V2 units Paul switched this out for an LM1458 chip, which he felt gave a smoother tone.
Picture the scene... you've just spent some time dialling in your dream high gain tone. You've got the amp cooking, stacked the overdrive pedals and achieved that perfect balance between saturation and clarity... but now there is an overwhelming hiss coming from the amp that threatens to derail your tone. What do you do?
Fresh from a successful NAMM ‘25, Daniel was gracious enough to answer some of our questions to help shed a little light on what Lichtlaerm Audio is all about and why we should all be excited to get our hands on the gear!
