# Orville "Red" Rhodes custom distortion unit

> This gain entry consolidates documented Orville "Red" Rhodes custom distortion unit variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/orville-red-rhodes-custom-distortion-unit/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Gain
- **Types:** Distortion, Fuzz
- **Also known as:** Clarence White custom distortion, Red Rhodes custom fuzz
- **Controls:** Control layout undocumented
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 1 board, 1970

A one-off distortion unit built for Clarence White by pedal-steel guitarist and amplifier technician Orville "Red" Rhodes. No reliable enclosure photograph or control layout has been located.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clarence White | "Untitled"-era fuzz path | 1970-01-01 | 1 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/clarence-white/untitled-era-fuzz-path-1970/ |