Olinthus

Guitar effects pedals.

About Olinthus

Olinthus designs micro-sized and miniature analog effects pedals engineered with ultra-compact footprints. Built to fit into tight setups, these pedals are sized nearly as small as a standard 9-volt battery, allowing them to fit easily onto crowded pedalboards, mount directly on instruments like guitars and synths, or slide directly into a pocket. The Olinthus product range delivers dynamic drive, compression, and fuzz tones through specialized circuits and compact designs.

Analog Overdrive and Compression Pedals

The Olinthus Cicada is a micro-sized overdrive effects pedal built to deliver full-bodied drive tones and sustain from an ultra-compact footprint. Sized nearly as small as a standard 9-volt battery, the Cicada fits easily onto crowded pedalboards, instruments, or directly into a pocket. Audio routing and power operate through a single TRRS jack, connecting via the included breakout cable for standard input needs.

The Olinthus Pillbug is a miniature analog compressor and sustainer pedal designed to manage dynamics across a wide variety of setups and styles. Built around an operational transconductance amplifier circuit inspired by compressor pedals of the '70s and '80s, it provides dynamic response from gentle squeeze to soaring sustain. Its ultra-compact format allows placement directly on a guitar, on a synth, or between other units.

Analog Fuzz Pedals

The Olinthus Earwig is an ultra-compact analog fuzz pedal inspired by the 1969 Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. Built into a bubblegum-coloured chassis roughly the size of a 9-volt battery, it delivers a broad range of fuzz, distortion, and sustain. The pedal features a cascading four-stage hard-clipping circuit with two diode stages, an interstage tone stack, and three sound sculpting controls for fuzz and distortion shaping.

Shop Olinthus at Blackout Audio

Blackout Audio carries compact effects units from Olinthus. Browse the range of micro-sized analog overdrive, compression, and fuzz pedals to add flexible sound shaping tools to instruments, synthesizers, and pedalboards.