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Subdecay Effects Pedals~~~~3289~3291~~

BLACKSTAR~The Blackstar is a high gain distortion pedal especially suited for hard rock and heavy metal playing. The Blackstar allows you to match the pedal to your guitar and amp... NOT the other way around. Most high gain pedals fall flat because of their frequency response, or because all the distortion is produced in one gain stage.~Die cast metal enclosures for durability, 3PDT switches for true bypass switching.Runs for many hours on a single 9-volt battery.Blue LED indicator. (earlier versions may have green LED's)Controls are: Drive - Drive - Tone - VolumeThree year limited warrantyCan be powered by a 9 volt battery or 9VDC adaptor with a negative center 2.1mm barrel style plug. Current draw is less than 10mA.Blackstar Distortion - Get high gain and huge tone from this box. Loads of sustain for blistering leads, and enough control to make any amp sound meaty and mean, yet harmonically rich and full.. For hard rock to metal and more.The Blackstar is a high gain distortion pedal especially suited for hard rock and heavy metal playing. The Blackstar allows you to match the pedal to your guitar and amp... NOT the other way around. Most high gain pedals fall flat because of their frequency response, or because all the distortion is produced in one gain stage. Frequency response problems can happen at the input or output of the effect. Too much bass response at the input can make the distortion muddy. Of course bass response is dependant on the guitar used, and most distortion pedals do not allow for tweaking pre-gain bass response. The lower drive knob is a bass frequency gain control and allows you to "match" the pedal to your guitar. Then there's the output. A lot of high gain pedals sound great at low volumes, but just don't cut through the mix at rehearsal or on stage. The Blackstars' tone control allows you to match the distortion to your amp, whether its a 1x10 combo, or a 4x12 stack.The Blackstar produces its distortion through cascaded gain stages, much like a tube amp. Each stage is a little different. The first stage uses a mosfet. The two following stages use hand picked jfets. Jfets are known for producing even harmonics when overdriven, much like tubes in guitar amps.

~BLACKSTAR|261|~3289~3295~~

ECHOBOX~Start out with a great delay sound, add intuitive and useful features, and you have your self The Echo Box.The sound is somewhere between a digital and analog delay, but without the coldness of the the typical digital delay, or sometimes "icky" artifacts heard with analog delays.~Die cast metal enclosures for durability, 3PDT switches for true bypass switching.Blue LED indicator, can be powered by a 9 volt battery or 9VDC adaptor with a negative center 2.1mm barrel style plug. Current draw is less than 100mA.The sound is somewhere between a digital and analog delay, but without the coldness of the the typical digital delay, or sometimes "icky" artifacts heard with analog delays. The repeats degrade each time they are recycled, but without any clicking, or popping often caused by "noise reduction" compandor circuits in older delays. Instead the Echo Box uses a discrete noise reduction circuit designed from the ground up. Natural decay mode allows the echo effect to naturally trail off after being bypassed. (with this feature off the pedal is true bypass).The modulation can be turned completely off, add just a little tape like warble, or push your tone to near insanity.Delay time is around 800ms. Infinite repeats are possible, and the scaling of the repeat knob can be altered via an internal trimpot.

~ECHOBOX|262|~3289~3297~~

FLYING TOMATO~The Flying Tomato is loosely based on the classic two transistor fuzz design, but with many modern improvements including, a switchable impedance matching input buffer, tone controls, bias control, true bypass switching, and an LED indicator.The Flying Tomato input buffer allows it to work after virtually any pedal, or with active pickups.~Die cast metal enclosures for durability, 3PDT switches for true bypass switching.Runs on a single 9 volt battery, or a 9VDC adapter, Red LED indicator.Three-year limited warranty.Similar to many classic fuzz designs the Flying Tomato adds a number of modern improvements, and it doesn't stop at true bypass, and an LED. It also works with other pedals and active pickups. We also added Tone controls, and a bias control. This mutant fuzz goes from hair raising, to classic, to gated.The Flying Tomato is loosely based on the classic two transistor fuzz design, but with many modern improvements including, a switchable impedance matching input buffer, tone controls, bias control, true bypass switching, and an LED indicator.The Flying Tomato input buffer allows it to work after virtually any pedal, or with active pickups.One of the ideas we strive for here at Subdecay, is pedals you can "match" to your guitar and amp. Some fuzzes sound great with a combination of certain guitars and amplifiers, but sound awful with others. With the bias, and tone controls, you can dial in the sound you want, and still cut through the mix at your next gig.

~FLYING TOMATO|263|~3289~3299~~

LIQUID SUNSHINE~The Liquid sunshine is a Jfet based overdrive with graceful breakup and pick attack, and will not cover up the the natural sound of your guitar and amplifier.With two drive knobs, the Liquid Sunshine allows you to control the character of the overdrive rather than simply controlling overall gain. The drive knobs controls two separate gain stages, each with their own characteristics. The top drive knob pushes the overall frequency range, while the bottom drive knob accentuates the middle and high frequencies. Both are very interactive, and allow the Liquid sunshine to perform as a clean boost or treble booster, as well as an overdrive.~Die cast metal enclosures for durability, 3PDT switches for true bypass switching.Runs for many hours on a single 9 volt battery, or can be powered by a 9VDC adapter.Red LED indicator, Three-year limited warranty.The Liquid Sunshine has two gain stages which are basically fet versions of tube inverters with bypass caps on the source. One of the stages has a capacitor tied to the lower drive knob. The capacitor holds a charge at all times, and the fet tries to keep its source voltage constant relative to the input (or gate) of the fet. When you turn the knob the pot acts as a variable voltage divider, and the fet does all it can to keep the source voltage the same. What you hear as a scratchy pot, is actually the capacitor charging and discharging.Class A Overdrive - JFET based design for natural breakup and huge available volume boost. The Liquid Sunshine will give your amp a good kick in the ass. Equally useful as a clean boost, treble booster, and overdrive. Responds well to boosters, and loves pushing your other dirt boxes too.The Liquid sunshine is a Jfet based overdrive with graceful breakup and pick attack, and will not cover up the the natural sound of your guitar and amplifier.With two drive knobs, the Liquid Sunshine allows you to control the character of the overdrive rather than simply controlling overall gain. The drive knobs controls two separate gain stages, each with their own characteristics. The top drive knob pushes the overall frequency range, while the bottom drive knob accentuates the middle and high frequencies. Both are very interactive, and allow the Liquid sunshine to perform as a clean boost or treble booster, as well as an overdrive.Unlike a lot of other overdrives that use diodes to clip an amplified signal, the jfet circuitry produces no "sharp edges" or hard clipping. Many tone knobs on overdrives have a very narrow band of useful settings.Instead, the bottom drive knob on the liquid sunshine controls gain and also alters the frequency response, with many useful settings over a wide range.The Liquid Sunshine now has two internal controls for bass, and treble boost.

~LIQUID SUNSHINE|264|~3289~3301~~

NOISEBOX~The Noise Box is somewhere in between a chaotic octave generator, guitar synth, and a broken robot stuck in an angry bee hive.The Noise Box is an envelope sensitive harmonic frequency generator. Frequencies generated are harmonically related to the input, and controlled by the Frequency knob, the Sense knob, and the chaos knob.~Die cast metal enclosures for durability, 3PDT switches for true bypass switching.Runs for many hours on a single 9-volt battery, Blue LED indicator.Controls are: Chaos, Frequency, Level, Voice & Sense.Three year limited warranty.Can be powered by a 9 volt battery or 9VDC adaptor with a negative center 2.1mm barrel style plug. Current draw is less than 10mA.The Noise Box is somewhere in between a chaotic octave generator, guitar synth, and a broken robot stuck in an angry bee hive.The Noise Box is an envelope sensitive harmonic frequency generator. Frequencies generated are harmonically related to the input, and controlled by the Frequency knob, the Sense knob, and the chaos knob. The Frequency knob sets the resting point of the frequency generator.The Sense knob controls how much the input signal will affect the the range of the frequency generator. The Chaos knob controls the attack. Once turned half way up the Chaos knob loses it's ability to track correctly, and the tones created by the frequency generator become more and more random.The Voice control alternates between two different voicings of the frequency generator, with varied levels of filtering.Level controls overall volume of the effect.The Noise Box also has an internal noise gate built in that turns the frequency generator off when you are not playing.

~NOISEBOX|265|~3289~3303~~

QUASAR~The Quasar is a vactrol based phase shifter that does everything from rotating speaker sounds, to bouncy odd ball filter effects. All knobs are very active in altering the effect, and it will not add noise to your signal like a lot of jfet based phasers.~Die cast metal enclosures for durability, 3PDT switches for true bypass switching.Powered by a 9 volt battery, or can be powered by a 9VDC adapter. 4 stage Vactrol based phaser circuit for distortionless operation.Controls: Rate, Feedback, Frequency, Depth and Mix.Red LED indicator blinks in time with rate control (on units manufactured after Jan 1 2006)Three-year limited warranty.A four stage phaser offering ultimate control and loads of headroom. Feedback, Frequency, Depth, Mix, and a rate control that goes from super slow to way too fast, allows the quasar to produce an infinite number of sounds.The Quasar is a vactrol based phase shifter that does everything from rotating speaker sounds, to bouncy odd ball filter effects. All knobs are very active in altering the effect, and it will not add noise to your signal like a lot of jfet based phasers.There's a load of sounds packed in this box. * Rate control takes you from super slow to way too fast. * Feedback control radically alters the voice of the effect using both positive and negative feedback. * The frequency and mix knobs are somewhat interactive and have a huge range. Turn the frequency knob way down, and you will hear the LFO become non symmetrical, as it bounces against the lower end of the frequency range. * Mix control allows you to change the level of the overall effect versus the unaffected signal. * As of September 2007 all new Quasars have an internal volume trim pot.The Quasar uses Vactrols to vary the phase shift frequency, instead of jfets, which most other phasers use. In a phaser circuit Jfets typically add a mild distortion to the guitar signal, which increase as the input to the effect increases. Vactrols are more expensive, but offer offer a cleaner audio path, a wider frequency range for the phaser effect, and far more headroom.Simply put the Quasar offers great versatility, but still fits nicely on your pedalboard.

~QUASAR|266|~3289~3305~~