HAO pedals are AND sound nothing like other effect pedals in the market. The highest quality components used throughout and painstakingly built by hand, HAO pedals have become the pedals of choice for many top guitarists in Japan in the past few years. Many so-called \"boutique\" pedals are based on and sometimes improved upon pedals of the past, but it is not \'original\': circuits were invented decades ago. HAO has taken a different path and been creating something new and original.