Sushibox The Watt coming soon

[fretmeister]

QUOTE FROM IG:

"I've had a handful of messages already asking about this, so I guess I can come right out and talk about it.

Mike Watt has been using a couple of my pedals for a while now, and earlier this year he asked if it would be possible to smash everything together into one box for a convenient all-in-one box for gigging and touring. After considerable back-and -forth and several prototypes, The Watt was born.

The Watt essentially combines the Single Slice compressor with the Finally v3 preamp/D.I., giving you a tube preamp, variable HPF, and compressor, all in a conveniently sized package.

Currently there are only two of these in existence, one for Mike and one for me, but I have parts on order to build more. I wasn't planning on even announcing this yet, but part of Mike's testing of the pedal meant using it at a gig, and I guess the word got out. I expect to have these ready to go by the end of September 2025."

 

Wild guess - not going to be cheap!

 

 

[Sibob]

Did anyone ever manage to nail down the fixed ratio of the Single Slice (and therefore this?), the only vague reference I can find is a single suggestion on TB from Nathan that it’s 4:1, but that’s not confirmed as far as I can see.

 

Love the green on this, nice little combo of effects too! Love Nathan’s stuff!

 

Si

[sushiboxfx]

19 hours ago, Sibob said:

Did anyone ever manage to nail down the fixed ratio of the Single Slice (and therefore this?), the only vague reference I can find is a single suggestion on TB from Nathan that it’s 4:1, but that’s not confirmed as far as I can see.

 

Love the green on this, nice little combo of effects too! Love Nathan’s stuff!

 

Si

I believe I went on later to clarify my answer once I had a better grasp of how that all worked. It turns out that an OTA compressor like Single Slice and The Watt are a "compressor-sustainer" and not a "compressor-limiter", so there isn't a set gain reduction ratio like there would be on a typical compressor-limiter. OTA compressors don't compress in a linear way like that, so it's not really something you can put a number on.

 

Also glad to see people are excited for the new pedal  I'm hoping to have stock built up for it by the end of September. I was originally planning to hold off on announcing it until it was ready to go, but I didn't tell Mike that, and he was excited after gig-testing it (which is always a good sign) and wanted to tell everyone.

[Sibob]

5 hours ago, sushiboxfx said:

I believe I went on later to clarify my answer once I had a better grasp of how that all worked. It turns out that an OTA compressor like Single Slice and The Watt are a "compressor-sustainer" and not a "compressor-limiter", so there isn't a set gain reduction ratio like there would be on a typical compressor-limiter. OTA compressors don't compress in a linear way like that, so it's not really something you can put a number on.

 

Also glad to see people are excited for the new pedal  I'm hoping to have stock built up for it by the end of September. I was originally planning to hold off on announcing it until it was ready to go, but I didn't tell Mike that, and he was excited after gig-testing it (which is always a good sign) and wanted to tell everyone.

Ah great, thanks very much! I likely skimmed over your clarification and didn’t pick up on it because I didn’t see a ratio anywhere….completely on me.

 

Si

[Paddy777]

On 26/08/2025 at 16:06, fretmeister said:

QUOTE FROM IG:

"I've had a handful of messages already asking about this, so I guess I can come right out and talk about it.

Mike Watt has been using a couple of my pedals for a while now, and earlier this year he asked if it would be possible to smash everything together into one box for a convenient all-in-one box for gigging and touring. After considerable back-and -forth and several prototypes, The Watt was born.

The Watt essentially combines the Single Slice compressor with the Finally v3 preamp/D.I., giving you a tube preamp, variable HPF, and compressor, all in a conveniently sized package.

Currently there are only two of these in existence, one for Mike and one for me, but I have parts on order to build more. I wasn't planning on even announcing this yet, but part of Mike's testing of the pedal meant using it at a gig, and I guess the word got out. I expect to have these ready to go by the end of September 2025."

 

Wild guess - not going to be cheap!

 

 

He said on IG in the comments of the post announcing this that he’s aiming for a price point of about $400usd - I don’t think that’s really too bad for what it is and when you look at the price of a Finally v3 & Single slice comp new

[sushiboxfx]

15 hours ago, Paddy777 said:

He said on IG in the comments of the post announcing this that he’s aiming for a price point of about $400usd - I don’t think that’s really too bad for what it is and when you look at the price of a Finally v3 & Single slice comp new

Correct. And based on the parts orders I have coming in for this one, I see no reason I shouldn't be able to meet the $400 price point, so that's still what I expect it to be. Expected release date will be towards the end of September, unless something unexpected happens.

[thumbo]

As a fan of both Sushi Box and Mike Watt, this looks awesome!