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Manufacturer: Lastgasp Art LaboratoriesDescription:
The “CYBER PSYCHIC parametric oscillo filter” (CP) is a parametric filter pedal with it’s own internal oscillation system.The parametric filter is a filter effect that changes the tone by passing only the signal of specific frequency bands, thus cutting the signal of other frequency bands.
It creates sounds by mixing the input signal with oscillation sounds. These oscillating sounds are created by a combination of three self-generated oscillating systems within the pedal.
It can filter softly, or make chaotic noise with it’s self generated oscillation. The “CP parametric oscillo filter” is a filter with an added touch!
Controls from top of left side:
LEVEL – Controls the output level
PREAMP – Controls the input level
GAIN – Controls the gain level
OSC1 – Controls the pulse oscillation sound
OSC2 – Controls the oscillation sound
Q – Controls the resonance of the filter/the oscillation sound
FREQ – Controls the center of the frequency*There is the possibility that sudden, strong and unexpected oscillation will occur during the operation of this pedal. Be ready to control the LEVEL at any time.
GAIN controls the overall gain level, it makes a distortion sound and controls the sensitivity of the oscillation.
The resonance becomes sharp when Q is turned to the right. At it’s sharpest point it will begin oscillating. *Turn the OSC1, the OSC2 and the Q slowly, as it tends to begin oscillating suddenly.On the top side, there are jacks for an INPUT, an OUTPUT, a CV PEDAL and an AC ADAPTER. The CV PEDAL jack can be connected to a CV pedal for “FREQ” alterations. If you have a foot CV pedal, you can control the “FREQ” with your foot. The “CV pedal” (Control Voltage pedal) is also known as an “expression pedal”. Unfortunately, we do not manufacture these pedals yet. Some manufacturers make “expression pedals” and almost all of them can be used in combinations with our pedals, but effects will vary depending on the manufacturer. We recommend using the MOOGERFOOGER “EP-1″ for the “CP parametric oscillo filter”.
Description:
Just giving credit where credit is due, the original Pickle Pie referenced below is not my own creation. It is my take on the Way Huge Swollen Pickle. I am not affiliated with or endorsed by Way Huge, nor do I have any connection to them.For a long time now I’d been planning on making a fuzz pedal designed for the many distortion loving bass players out there. It all started when I began getting a large percentage of my Pickle Pie sales from bass players who knew The Pickle’s reputation as a “guitar” pedal that could handle the low frequencies of the bass, and give a nice spongy fuzz much better than most of the Muff family.
Even though most were happy with this pedal, I had always wanted to take a stab at doing some tweaks to The Pickle to create a pedal with a much different voice, but one that still uses the same basic skeleton as the PP, and strives to resolve many of the common quandaries bassists come across in their search for a fuzz that really works for their instrument and their playing situation. Long story short, I spent much of my spare time for a few months trying many, many different ideas and experiments till I came up with something I was really happy with.
OK, here’s the rundown on some of the changes made to the first PPie:
A FET buffered active clean-boost.
No “drop out” when you kick on the fuzz when playing live. Helps give the feel of running two amps, one wet, one dry for those of us who can’t afford two SVT’s, and/or can’t lug two bass amps down to the local club.Totally changed FET-hybrid clip sections.
Along with great sounding fuzz, this specific clipping combo helps the fuzz to mesh with the clean signal in a natural way, instead of just sitting on top of the dry signal like some fuzzers with clean blends can do.Altered tone-stack range geared specifically for bass.
A widened range of usable tones from the “shape” knob. The pedal overall has a much less pronounced mid-scoop which helps it to retain presence in a live playing situation.Altered saturation (fuzz) knob to make it highly usable at lower gain settings.
Roll the fuzz back, and things still sound crisp, also tighter lows at high fuzz settings. I know everyone says this, but The PP “B” really can go from a dirty, gritty, slightly over-driven clean-blended bass sound, to fully saturated, watch out for feedback, drop-C meltdown, and everything in-between.Various cap and resistor changes.
Several core changes to the circuit to even better accomodate the bass guitar.Yellow LED.
I know, I know, the colored LED thing is getting really old, but the yellow looks elegant, and set’s the B version apart from the original Pickle Pie. Both pedals share the same housing, a “B” is engraved into the side of the new version and most obvious, the new version has the clean blend on the side.Genuine Davies “Daka-ware” knobs.
(like the old WH pedals, and many others), not the knock offs. I kind of have a thing for knobs (that sounds weird), and when you see these in person, compared to the cheapo knobs they are truly a thing of beauty. Industry standard Alpha pots, lock-washers on pots and jacks, 3PDT switch for “true” bypass, Switchcraft jacks, insulated 2.1mm 9V jack (Boss-style) with fiberboard mounted connections. Great looking sturdy enclosures, hand-painted, as well as hand-screened in the USA (not by me!). Shipped with a new battery.
Description:
Blackstone’s current standard product is a very small (4.4″x 2.4″) battery-powered floorpedal called the Mosfet Overdrive 2S. It provides two footswitchable channels, each with its own drive and level settings, and true mechanical bypass.Where the vast majority of overdrive pedals create distortion with a pair of head-to-toe diodes, the Mosfet Overdrive instead utilizes four gain stages, each contributing a small amount of soft clipping. This avoids intermodulation and the creation of fizzy high-order harmonics, just as in the best vintage amps. Those amps sound good in large part because the distortion does not occur at just one point.
The Blackstone circuit is also unusual in that it interacts with the inductance of your guitar’s pickups to get its unique dynamic response. It is very sensitive to playing dynamics, but translates them into changes in waveform distortion, rather than passing them on as changes in output level. This gives you a greater range of expression in your picking technique, but at the same time evens out volume differences. Because the guitar’s pickups and controls are actually part of the input stage, you can get anything from a juicy, harmonic-laden lead sound to a barely-breaking twang with just the guitar’s volume control.
The Mosfet Overdrive is designed to provide these sought-after distortion characteristics entirely on its own. It is not a “boost” pedal meant to cause distortion to occur in your amp. The ideal amp to use with it is the one that best gets the clean sound that you like. The Blackstone will take it from there.
Specs
Controls:
Bypass footswitch
Channel footswitch
Pilot light
(red or amber to indicate channel, off to indicate bypass)
“Red” channel drive adjustment
(minimum at 12:00, clockwise increase for single-coil pickups, counterclockwise for humbucking)
“Red” channel level adjustment
“Brown” channel drive adjustment
“Brown” channel level adjustment
Post-distortion EQ adjustment
(cuts midrange at 750Hz, up to 10dB)Connectors:
Input: 1/4″ phone
Ouput: 1/4″ phone
Power: 5.5 x 2.1mm barrel jack, center negativePower:
one 9V battery, alkaline recommended
or 9VDC AC adapter (not supplied)
Power consumption: ~ 17 mAInternal adjustments:
Stage 2 Gain, Stage 2 Treble
(adj. w/jeweler’s screwdriver)Bypass switching:
True mechanical bypassUser-replaceable components:
Socket-mounted capacitor that limits output presence
Socket-mounted capacitor that tunes Red Channel bass at counter-clockwise settingOther:
Cast aluminum chassis with power-coat finish, Carling switches, FR4 (Epoxy-Fiberglass) plated-through-hole circuit boards, No electrolytic or tantalum capacitors in the signal path. Made in USA.*Dimensions:
4.4″(112mm)W x 2.4″(61mm)D x 1.25″(32mm)H to top of enclosure, 2″(51mm) Ht
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