# MXR Custom Shop Timmy CSP027

> This gain is catalogued as an affordable substitute in an editorial budget rebuild. It is not presented as an observed artist-board placement.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/mxr-custom-shop-timmy-csp027/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Gain
- **Types:** Boost, Transparent overdrive
- **Also known as:** CSP027, MXR Timmy
- **Controls:** Bass, Clip switch, Gain, Treble, Volume
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 0 boards
- **Editorial appearances:** 1 budget rebuild

Paul Cochrane's transparent overdrive built under licence in an MXR mini housing, with cut-only bass before the clipping stage and treble after it, published here as the affordable stand-in for the hand-built Timmy.

## Budget rebuild appearances

Editorial substitutions chosen by the archive for a priced rebuild. They are not gear the artist owned or used.

| Rebuild | Replaces | Fidelity | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Lifeson's pedalboard on a budget | Paul Cochrane Timmy | Same circuit | https://pedalboardarchive.com/budget/alex-lifeson/rush-fifty-something-digital-rig-2026/ |