Caroline Guitar Company

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Builds: Pedals · Est. 2010

Website checked Oct 26, 2026

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Based in Columbia, SC

Caroline Guitar Company

Small-batch “distortery” founded by Philippe Herndon. Builds acclaimed pedals like the Wave Cannon distortion and Meteore lo-fi reverb, each hand-assembled in SC.

Founder: Philippe Herndon

Notable players

Chris CornellAndy SummersNels ClineJason IsbellYvette YoungDave CobbAndy BellLaura Jane GraceBrendan BensonPatterson HoodMatthew CawsIsaac BrockMisha MansoorButch WalkerDavid Ryan Harris

Notable gear

Parabola

A solid-state tremolo built around a transistor-based LFO inspired by a classic amp circuit, with switchable amplitude and filtered modulation modes plus pre/post gain stages.

Wave Cannon MKII

An unapologetic superdistorter ranging from cranked amp-like tones to full-on heavy distortion, distinct from both the original Wave Cannon and Caroline's Haymaker drive.

Arigato

A wide-ranging phaser/vibrato built for warmth and movement rather than vintage-accurate tones, capable of everything from subtle shading to full vibrato and auto-wah-style sweeps.

Crom

A BC184 Supa Tone Bender-style fuzzstortion with a tweed-amp-inspired tone control and a Turbo switch for extra gain.

Icarus V2

A buffer, booster, and overdrive in one, based on the preamp circuits from Parabola and Météore with a germanium-flavored gain stage.

The Blues

A straightforward two-mode overdrive, moving from an always-on transparent light drive to a gnarlier raw drive tone.

Hawaiian Pizza

A three-knob fuzz originally released to benefit a local Girls Rock chapter, praised for delivering more tonal range than its simple control set suggests.

Wave Cannon Zero

The latest evolution of Caroline's flagship distortion, delivering late-70s/early-80s big-amp tones with a refined shape control, a voltage-starve option, and a massively expanded Havoc feedback circuit.

Megabyte

The follow-up to Caroline's Kilobyte delay, adding two lo-fi delay chips for longer delay times, tap tempo, and a nastier Havoc runaway effect.

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