Lichtlaerm Audio Thorn - Lennart Bossu Signature Distortion

The Thorn is a collaboration with post-metal powerhouse Amenra - an attempt to distill the unmistakable voice of Lennart Bossu into a form that can live on any stage, in any rig, anywhere in the world.

A bit of history: for years, Lennart’s sound has been defined by an old and rare Providence Stampede SDT-1 - discovered through recordings from Kurt Ballou’s God City Studios (famed for its use on Converge records and beyond). That one battered unit became his weapon of choice across Oathbreaker, Amenra, Predatory Void and Living Gate, shaping not only his voice but an entire Belgian scene orbiting around Amenra and its members.

The original SDT-1 has a singular, organic roar - but also some inconvenient baggage: a massive enclosure, direct wall-voltage power, a fixed boost, and a few other quirks. Later Providence revisions solved some of those problems, but at the expense of its unique sonic fingerprint.

So we set out to reverse-engineer Lennart’s exact unit and reimagine it for the modern stage. The result: a faithful recreation with a few critical evolutions. We added a 1 kHz mid control for surgical presence-shaping. We made the footswitchable boost adjustable. We kept the soul of his exact unit in the SDT-1 mode, but added an SDT-2 mode for the more compressed, saturated tones Lennart leans on in Living Gate. And, true to our nature, we couldn’t resist adding a third, proprietary voicing - laerm - more open, louder, and more direct than any Stampede ever was.

We kept the EQ bypass that was present on the original unit but got lost in later revisions: lifting the tone stack completely from the circuit for an even more immediate connection between guitar and amp. In Lennart’s own setup, the Thorn feeds straight into an Ampeg V4 with EQ bypassed, turning it into an extension of the amp’s own voice rather than an overlay.

With the Thorn, you hold not only the sound of Amenra, Oathbreaker and countless others but a distortion that stands on its own: direct, transparent, and articulate, yet massive and organic. It’s a voice you won’t find anywhere else.

Features:

• Lichtlaerm Audio Smart Relay technology

• Lennart Bossu signature distortion

• the sound of Amenra, Oathbreaker, Living Gate, etc.

• direct, transparent yet huge and organic sound

• bypassable 3-band active EQ

• footswitchable boost

• SDT-1, SDT-2 and proprietary laerm modes

• high headroom design with charge pump

• standard 9V center-negative power

Warranty & Returns

All New products are covered by the manufacturers new warranty. Please check their website for the length of warranty and warranty conditions. If an item you receive is faulty get in touch with us ASAP. Second Hand products come with a 4 week warranty from us. If there is an issue let us know ASAP! This covers normal use and does not cover accidental damage, misuse, wrong power plugged into it, modding, water damage or any other damage caused by mistreatment. Just treat it nice and all will be good!

Shipping

We send A LOT of packages every week so don't worry about the shipping side of things!

We've never lost a thing and your awesome new gear will be packed up really well to avoid any damage in transit.

If your order comes in before 2pm we will ship it same day. Most of the time we pack things up all the way to 4pm so just call if you need it to leave same day after 2pm.

We ship mainly with Australia Post but may use a courier depending on location and size of the package.

Free Post ships with Australia Post standard and expected shipping times are between 4-6 business days depending on location. It will be longer to outside of metro and rural areas.

Express Post will usually be with you next business day in metro areas of QLD, NSW, SA, VIC and TAS. WA will take 2 days to metro and extra days after that to out side metro and rural areas.

Everything we ship has a tracking number with the exception of some power cables and smaller envelope packages. You will be emailed tracking once your order has been shipped!

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